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Grab bag of links
Mar. 19th, 2010 10:11 pm1. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (4-minute video) -- I am in awe of this machine. Really, it's worth your four minutes just to look at it and go "whoa."
2. Gaming can make a better world (20-minute TED talk video by Jane McGonigal) -- Can World of Warcraft save the world? Maybe. I have to admit, I'm inspired by this one and really want to see what her next project is going to be.
3. Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv (5-minute video) -- a guy on Chat Roulette sets up his camera in front of his piano and improvs based on the people who log in to chat with him. Hilarious.
4. Mind-boggling photo manipulations (pictures) -- some really cool stuff here. I'm a sucker for well-done photoshops that make the impossible look possible.
5. A trailer for every Academy Award winning movie ever (3.5-minute video) -- it's funny because it's true. You need to have watched a lot of movies for this to be truly funny, but if you have, it's great.
6. Vegetarians, from the other point of view (2-minute video) -- an absolutely brilliant spoof on all those times a vegetarian has been told "we don't do vegetarian in this house." This time, a meat-eater tries to convince his vegetarian host that meat-eating is the more ethical choice!
7. What Shamu taught me about a happy marriage -- an exotic animal trainer decides to use animal-training techniques on that most common of creatures, the American husband. (I expect you could use it on the American wife, too. Or any husband or wife.)
2. Gaming can make a better world (20-minute TED talk video by Jane McGonigal) -- Can World of Warcraft save the world? Maybe. I have to admit, I'm inspired by this one and really want to see what her next project is going to be.
3. Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv (5-minute video) -- a guy on Chat Roulette sets up his camera in front of his piano and improvs based on the people who log in to chat with him. Hilarious.
4. Mind-boggling photo manipulations (pictures) -- some really cool stuff here. I'm a sucker for well-done photoshops that make the impossible look possible.
5. A trailer for every Academy Award winning movie ever (3.5-minute video) -- it's funny because it's true. You need to have watched a lot of movies for this to be truly funny, but if you have, it's great.
6. Vegetarians, from the other point of view (2-minute video) -- an absolutely brilliant spoof on all those times a vegetarian has been told "we don't do vegetarian in this house." This time, a meat-eater tries to convince his vegetarian host that meat-eating is the more ethical choice!
7. What Shamu taught me about a happy marriage -- an exotic animal trainer decides to use animal-training techniques on that most common of creatures, the American husband. (I expect you could use it on the American wife, too. Or any husband or wife.)
