Tag: Video
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Awesome to see this guy Jamie Oliver so impassioned about food education. “Diet-related disease is the biggest killer in the United States right now. Obesity costs 10% of your health care bills, 150 Billion [US] Dollars a year. […] The [Food] industry wants to self-policing themselves. What, in this current climate? They don’t deserve it.”…
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“Doing it with ‘Mac’… –or– “I ♥ Susan Kare” In this television piece on the original Apple Macintosh computer, designer Susan Kare spells out user interface concepts that we take for granted now, e.g. pull down menus described as operating like “window shades”. She also explains how and why the Mac uses rich graphics to…
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(To celebrate Google’s recent announcement that YouTube will automatically transcribe videos, I have transcribed Ricky Van Veen’s speech from one of my favorite College Humor videos, “Scooch”)
Ricky: Guys, the bathroom here is a privilege. If you’re gunna do Number Two, just do Number One. If you’re going into the bathroom and you’re going to do a Number Two, just do a Number One! It’s simple! It’s math! I can’t make this any clearer. Every time you do a Number Two it…
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On June 12th, 1970, the Pittsburgh Pirates Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD. Enjoy this James Blagden animated short narrated by Dock himself. Via Suddenly.
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It’s The Real: The Notorious BIG’s lyrics speak to many fans’ ears, across all swatches of culture, drawing both on gleeful exaggerations of violence and somber reflections of personal introspection, tied together with deft wordplay and inflection. Still, it seems that Mr. Smalls – like Jesus Christ – drew his fair share of enemies as…
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The first Apple iPad commercial, “Meet iPad,” debuted during the Oscars tonight. The thirty second spot features quick interactions with the device and an upbeat song called “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van (iTunes link). Available in HD. Enjoy.
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I wrote and illustrated a short story when I was in 6th grade called “The Beatnik and The Bean”. My friends and I were on a bit of a kick where we thought scat and bebop words were funny. This cartoon by Dan Meth looks almost exactly like my beatnik, though I have no idea…
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Launching 10 apps at once: 200GB HDD vs 48GB SSD Skip to 3:33 for the app launch.
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I often pretend Merlin Mann is my cool uncle who likes classic rock and R.E.M.
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Lambchop – Up with People
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel as read by Werner Herzog. This was my favorite book when I was five. That and something called Rootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Bill.
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Like any cultural artifact highlighted during an Apple Keynote, Wet and Woofy has become a part of the eternal Apple canon and will never not exist. Archived for posterity.
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Download this, sync to iPhone, loop it and put in front of you while you work. Surprisingly effective.
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Garrett Murray: Old Star Trek made to look like new Star Trek (via Amanda, thedailywhat) As you can see, this is clearly superior to the original version. It feels so alive and spacey and like the future and alive and also bright and superior. Alive and spacey. This is so cool it’s ridiculous. Can’t wait…