- Video: British MP smacks down US Senator in hearing (5/17/05) VideoSift
From the comments: "Galloway is an asshole, a liar, and probably a profiteer from the Oil-For-Food program before the war. But, just as in everyday life, despite being a thoroughly unsavory fellow paradoxically he is often a brilliant orator, and here he
Tags: video, politics, british, mp, US, senator, oil, food, program, lies, war, death, propaganda, rhetoric - If the Enterprise ran on Windows
Data smash!
Tags: enterprise, star, trek, windows, lcars, bsod, microsoft - Video: How Crayons Are Made
Classic Sesame Street video about how crayons are made.
Tags: video, sesame, street, crayons, factory, howto - Video: Freedom from Thirst
Clever Sprite commercial
Tags: video, commercial, sprite, freedom, thirst, pool, basketball, court, summer, hot - put it back together
Do you think Superman feels guilty after knocking down parts of the city fighting?
Tags: superman, comic, explodingdog, guilt - Video: Grand Theft Auto: All Coked Up
Coke commercial set in the Grand Theft Auto world.
Tags: video, grand, theft, auto, coke, cola, commercial, games - Video: Imagining the 10th dimension
A primer on multi-dimensional theory. I admit I got lost around the fifth dimension.
Tags: physics, science, video, dimension, theory - I want to be Stephen Colbert’s gamer friend
Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast and Gen Con, wants to be Stephen Colbert’s "gamer friend."
Tags: peter, adkison, wizards, coast, gen, con, stephen, colbert, gamer, friend - Death to the Minotaur
The rise and fall of Peter Adkison and his company, Wizards of the Coast (Magic, Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons).
Tags: death, minotaur, peter, adkison, wizards, coast, pokemon, magic, dungeons, dragons - The Jill Carroll Story
"Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days. This is her story."
Tags: jill, carroll, freelance, reporter, journalist, christian, science, monitor, iraq, hostage - Bound for Glory and Color Corrected
Color photos from the 1900s onwards. Kottke has color corrected a few, but also provided links to photos from Russia, and World Wars I and II.
Tags: photography, color, russia, world, war, WWI, WWII, bound, glory - Video: Best Magic Trick Ever
My friend Jill sent me this with the comment, "I’ve never seen that before." NSFW.
Tags: video, magic, trick, strip, nsfw, funny - Video: How Deep Is Your Love?
Virgin airlines commercial with a surprising twist.
Tags: video, commercial, virgin, airlines, gay - Review: Halo Graphic Novel
I bought it, and the artwork is incredible, but the storylines feel incomplete. Still the "armor testing" bit is excellent.
Tags: halo, graphic, novel, comic, book, review - Endurance Challenge
Swords-and-Sorcery parody of "Survivor". (via theSpecialProject.com)
Tags: flash, animation, cartoons, endurance, challenge, survivor, swords, sorcery, funny - David Copperfield says he’s found Fountain of Youth
"I’ve discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. … Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they’ll
Tags: david, copperfield, fountain, youth, science, fantasy, magic, immortality, health - Mimi Smartypants
"Normal person makes a joke about work team being like the A-Team, and references driving the van. Insane Lifestyle Mentioner asks, "Was that on TV? Because I don’t own a TV. I haven’t watched TV since I was a child. I have better things to do with my t
Tags: tv, television, lifestyle, superior, arrogant, jerks, funny - Wilhelm scream
The "Wilhelm" scream is an in-joke among sound designers, who like to work it into any movie they can, ranging from Star Wars to the Goofy Movie.
Tags: wilhelm, scream, sound, design, effect, movie, history - All “signs” point to Firefox
A giant crop circle of the firefox logo pops up in Amity, Oregon.
Tags: crop, circle, signs, firefox, oregon, amity - "Wait, Aren’t You Scared?"
"The only reason that some people can scream this headline: "The London Bombers were within DAYS of trying a dry run!!!" — was because MI-5, MI-6, and Scotland Yard let them get that close, so they could suck in the largest number of contacts (again, ver
Tags: terrorism, scare, london, bombers, liquid, bomb - Also Sprach Miyamoto
Best. Shirt. Ever. (via Kotaku)
Tags: 2001, monolith, donkey, kong, video, games, nintendo, tshirt, kubrick - Shatner hopes new game will revive "Trek"
"’I couldn’t imagine someone else playing Captain Kirk, even in a video game, so I kind of got a little territorial,’ he said."
Tags: shatner, kirk, star, trek, video, games, legacy - Riding With Robots Dashboard Widget
A desktop widget that shows the latest photos from the NASA probes and robots crawling around the solar system. (via IconFactory)
Tags: apple, macintosh, desktop, dashboard, widget, riding, robots, nasa, probe







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