tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85128717006162189332023-07-17T21:56:03.053-07:00Best of the BestA selection of interesting videoclips from around the webAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-68763596113079809682010-08-19T20:18:00.000-07:002010-08-19T20:18:03.380-07:00Eddie Izzard - Unrepeatable - Horror Movies<div align="center"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j4yrL6rc6bU?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j4yrL6rc6bU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eddie_Izzard">Edward John "Eddie" Izzard</a> is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. He has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the "Lost Python." (...) </blockquote></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unrepeatable">Unrepeatable</a> is the title of a performance by British comedian Eddie Izzard. It was recorded in 1994 at the Albery Theatre, released on DVD, and follows his first show, Live at the Ambassadors.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-50230436817364278682010-08-19T20:15:00.000-07:002010-09-27T21:38:43.988-07:00Eddie Izzard - Cats and Dogs<div align="center"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rryNobB_rvw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rryNobB_rvw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eddie_Izzard">Edward John "Eddie" Izzard</a> is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. He has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the "Lost Python." (...) </blockquote></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unrepeatable">Unrepeatable</a> is the title of a performance by British comedian Eddie Izzard. It was recorded in 1994 at the Albery Theatre, released on DVD, and follows his first show, Live at the Ambassadors.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-57134206806962144322010-07-24T23:44:00.000-07:002010-07-24T23:44:40.756-07:00Video Games and the Uncanny Valley<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKTAJBQSm10&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKTAJBQSm10&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Episode Four in Daniel Floyd's series of video "lectures," made in association with Edge. Co-written with James Portnow, cofounder of Divide By Zero Games. Loosely modeled after Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's Zero Punctuation reviews. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Uncanny_valley">uncanny valley</a> is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics. The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The term was coined by roboticist Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō (不気味の谷現象) in 1970, and has been linked to Ernst Jentsch's concept of "the uncanny" identified in a 1906 essay, "On the Psychology of the Uncanny". Jentsch's conception is famously elaborated upon by Sigmund Freud in a 1919 essay titled "The Uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche"). A similar problem exists in realistic 3D computer animation, such as with the films Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The Polar Express, and Beowulf.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-24927058169953835902010-07-24T23:32:00.000-07:002010-07-24T23:32:40.081-07:00Johnnie Walker - The Man Who Walked Around The World<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MnSIp76CvUI&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MnSIp76CvUI&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Johnnie_Walker">Johnnie Walker</a> is a brand of Scotch Whisky owned by Diageo and produced in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the most widely distributed brand of blended Scotch whisky in the world, sold in almost every country with yearly sales of over 130 million bottles. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2009 the advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty created a new short film, starring Robert Carlyle and called The Man Who Walked Around the World, which outlined the history of the Johnnie Walker brand.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-67455064059615904732010-07-23T12:03:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:03:12.924-07:00160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pDxn0Xfqkgw&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pDxn0Xfqkgw&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger">Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger</a> is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman, and politician, who is currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon, noted for his lead role in such films as Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnold Strong" and "Arnie" during his acting career, and more recently the "Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "Terminator"). (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Celebrating the finest actor of our generation with 160 of his greatest movie quotes! First featured on Pajiba.com. Lines taken from 25 of Arnies finest films:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Batman & Robin, Collateral Damage, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, End of Days, Eraser, Jingle All the Way, Junior, Kindergarten Cop, Last Action Hero, Predator, Pumping Iron, Raw Deal, Red Heat, Red Sonja, The Running Man, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Total Recall, True Lies, Twins, The 6th Day and Around the World in 80 Days.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-32859479008880205692010-07-23T11:33:00.000-07:002010-07-23T11:34:20.676-07:00Symphony of Science - 'Our Place in the Cosmos'<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vioZf4TjoUI&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vioZf4TjoUI&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our Place in the Cosmos", the third video from the Symphony of Science, was crafted using samples from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Richard Dawkins' Genius of Charles Darwin series, Dawkins' TED Talk, Stephen Hawking's Universe series, Michio Kaku's interview on Physics and aliens, plus added visuals from Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, History Channel's Universe series, and IMAX Cosmic Voyage. The themes present in this song are intended to explore our understanding of our origins within the universe, and to challenge the commonplace notion that humans have a superior or privleged position, both on our home planet and in the universe itself.<br />
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The <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Symphony_of_Science">Symphony of Science</a> is a music project created by Washington-based electronic musician John Boswell. The project seeks to "spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through musical remixes." Boswell uses pitch corrected audio and video samples from television programs featuring popular scientists and educators. The audio and video clips are mixed into digital mashups and scored with Boswell's original compositions. Two of Boswell's music videos, "A Glorious Dawn" and "We are All Connected", feature appearances from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and Stephen Hawking. The audio and video is sampled from popular science television shows including Cosmos, The Universe, The Eyes of Nye, The Elegant Universe, and Stephen Hawking's Universe.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-66091182710347147482010-07-23T00:04:00.000-07:002010-07-23T00:04:55.051-07:00Nike Football Write The Future - Full length version<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/idLG6jh23yE&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/idLG6jh23yE&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Write_The_Future">Write The Future</a> is an advert for Nike football. The full version is over three minutes in length and features football players Didier Drogba, Fabio Cannavaro, Wayne Rooney, Franck Ribéry, Ronaldinho, and Cristiano Ronaldo as its main players. All of the players play in a scenario during a World Cup match and after significant events occur, the players usually see a significant ripple effect outside the world of football. It airs during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It can be considered a sequel to a previous advert entitled "Take It To The Next Level", which aired in 2008, and features similar people. It features the song "Hocus Pocus," by Progressive rock band Focus.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-61836640275718854792010-07-22T23:54:00.000-07:002010-07-22T23:54:16.585-07:00RedHat Linux commercial<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7XEujPG7Zjw&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7XEujPG7Zjw&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><br />
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Red_Hat">Red Hat, Inc</a>. is a company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and with the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss. Red Hat provides operating-system platforms along with middleware, applications, and management products, as well as support, training, and consulting services.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-83705914301548665652010-07-22T12:04:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:08:44.123-07:00The Philosophy of Liberty<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/muHg86Mys7I&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/muHg86Mys7I&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Jonathan_Gullible">The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible</a> is a libertarian book written by Ken Schoolland, a libertarian and professor of economics. Although it is read by many adults, it is aimed at the young audience, hoping to show young people Schoolland's concerns about statist society in ways they can easily understand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The preface of the book, "The Philosophy of Liberty", has been turned into a very popular short film, distributed on the internet in many formats, including flash animation, video, slideshow or text, in around forty languages.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-1380238489722753522010-07-21T12:15:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:19:44.108-07:00Black & White Introduction [High Quality]<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e8sfa_KKpFY&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e8sfa_KKpFY&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Black_%26_White_%28video_game%29">Black & White</a> is a computer game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive. It is a god game released in 2001, which included elements of artificial life, strategy, and fighting games.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The player acts as a god and takes control over villages across several islands. Black & White features a unique gameplay element, a creature that the player can raise and teach. The game was highly anticipated and overall well received. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the introduction video of Black & White. A video game released on March 25, 2001. It was developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-70854507581041478072010-07-21T11:51:00.000-07:002010-07-23T11:57:08.933-07:00Eddie Izzard - Dentists (Sexie)<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_pnSgq2C-yg&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_pnSgq2C-yg&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eddie_Izzard">Edward John "Eddie" Izzard</a> is a British stand-up comedian, actor and voice-over artist. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. He has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the "Lost Python." (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sexie">Sexie</a> is the name of the 2003 tour by Eddie Izzard. The tour covered Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Topics covered on this tour include transvestitism, aeroplanes, superheroes, Greek mythology, the planet Mars, the emergency services, sharks, human evolution, dentists, firemen, horses, and the "Baguetti Western" Blueberry in which he starred as a German cowboy. As an encore, Eddie does his most recent "bad impression", Christopher Walken.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-37580725547499870972010-07-21T11:22:00.000-07:002010-07-23T11:27:02.402-07:00Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b_6-iVz1R0o&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b_6-iVz1R0o&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Michael_Shermer">Michael Brant Shermer</a> is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television (now ABC Family) series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-88694673837755939532010-07-21T11:18:00.000-07:002010-07-23T11:21:53.596-07:00Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson<div align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aLEhh_XpJ-0&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aLEhh_XpJ-0&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Say_Say_Say">Say Say Say</a>" is a pop song that was written and performed by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. The track was produced by George Martin for McCartney's fifth solo album, Pipes of Peace (1983). The song was recorded during production of McCartney's 1982 Tug of War album, about a year before the release of "The Girl Is Mine"—the pair's first duet from Jackson's record-breaking album, Thriller (1982). After its release in October 1983, "Say Say Say" became Jackson's seventh top-ten hit inside a year. It was a number one hit in the United States, Norway, and Sweden, reached number two in the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten in Australia, Austria, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Switzerland.<br />
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Certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song was promoted with a music video directed by Bob Giraldi. The video, filmed in Santa Ynez Valley, California, featured cameo appearances by Linda McCartney and La Toya Jackson. The short film centers around two con artists called "Mac and Jack" (played by McCartney and Jackson), and is credited for the introduction of dialogue and storyline to music videos. </div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-21672875765856399932010-07-18T19:55:00.000-07:002010-07-23T00:17:05.222-07:00Intel "Lunch Room" 2010 Super Bowl XLIV Commercial Ad<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bbifmRBBN6Q&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bbifmRBBN6Q&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Intel's 2010 Super Bowl XLIV spot starring <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeffrey-the-Robot/295016784733?v=info">Jeffrey the Robot</a> (...)</blockquote><blockquote><br />
<a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Intel_Corporation">Intel Corporation</a> is a technology company, and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, as Integrated Electronics Corporation (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intelligence) and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-9194755095746498732010-07-18T19:34:00.000-07:002010-07-23T00:14:19.532-07:00Thomas Sowell on the Housing Boom and Bust<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5GoAGuTIbVY&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5GoAGuTIbVY&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a> discusses how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust.(...)<br />
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Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social critic, political commentator and author. He often writes as an advocate of laissez-faire economics. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. In 2003, he was awarded the Bradley Prize for intellectual achievement.</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-4689621242587743362010-07-18T12:20:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:25:47.186-07:00Don't Make Me Get My Main<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TR7FC-h0Fb8&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TR7FC-h0Fb8&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The MP3 for this song is on Cranius' newly-released album, "Big Blue Dress". Legs and Cranius submitted this movie to the Blizzcon 2009 movie contest, and they took first place. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Don't Make Me Get My Main" is a story about a guy who is being camped in Stranglethorn Vale while leveling an alt. He tries to convince his attacker that messing with him is a bad idea because he's a skilled PvPer. Eventually he has to logout and get his main character to come to the defense of his alt.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-38397429913550480112010-07-17T12:24:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:28:53.427-07:00Human Sacrifice - That Mitchell and Webb Look<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hY4pRf1PQZI&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hY4pRf1PQZI&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/That_Mitchell_and_Webb_Look">That Mitchell and Webb Look</a> is a British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Shown on BBC Two since 2006, its first two series were directed by David Kerr, who also directed Mitchell and Webb's previous television sketch show The Mitchell and Webb Situation, whereas series 3 and 4 are directed by Ben Gosling Fuller. (...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In another clip from the final episode of the third series of Mitchell & Webb Look, we get to see God and Arbaham discuss a new idea which turns out to be Human Sacrifice. This clip was taking from S03E06 which aired on 16th July 2009.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-85027578574225784292009-12-17T18:39:00.000-08:002010-07-26T00:47:06.006-07:00Address tae the haggis<div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8l2m3_2Xjg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8l2m3_2Xjg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_to_a_Haggis#Entrance_of_the_haggis"><span style="color: black;">Address tae The haggis</span></a> by Harry MacFadyen (...)<br />
</blockquote><blockquote>A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems including "Auld Lang Syne," which is generally sung as a folk song at Hogmanay and other New Year celebrations around the world. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day or Burns Night (Burns Nicht), although they may in principle be held at any time of the year. (...)<br />
</blockquote><blockquote>Everyone stands as the main course is brought in. This is always a haggis on a large dish. It is brought in by the cook, generally while a piper plays bagpipes and leads the way to the host's table, where the haggis is laid down. He/she might play 'A man's a man for a' that'. The host, or perhaps a guest with a talent, then recites the Address To a Haggis:<br />
</blockquote></div><blockquote>Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, <br />
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!<br />
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,<br />
Painch, tripe, or thairm:<br />
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace<br />
As lang's my arm.<br />
<br />
The groaning trencher there ye fill,<br />
Your hurdies like a distant hill,<br />
Your pin wad help to mend a mill<br />
In time o' need,<br />
While thro' your pores the dews distil<br />
Like amber bead.<br />
<br />
His knife see rustic Labour dicht,<br />
An' cut you up wi' ready slicht,<br />
Trenching your gushing entrails bricht,<br />
Like ony ditch;<br />
And then, O what a glorious sicht,<br />
Warm-reekin, rich!<br />
<br />
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an' strive:<br />
Deil tak the hindmaist! on they drive,<br />
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve,<br />
Are bent like drums;<br />
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,<br />
"Bethankit" hums.<br />
<br />
Is there that o're his French ragout<br />
Or olio that wad staw a sow,<br />
Or fricassee wad mak her spew<br />
Wi' perfect scunner,<br />
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view<br />
On sic a dinner?<br />
<br />
Poor devil! see him ower his trash,<br />
As feckless as a wither'd rash,<br />
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,<br />
His nieve a nit;<br />
Thro' bloody flood or field to dash,<br />
O how unfit!<br />
<br />
But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,<br />
The trembling earth resounds his tread.<br />
Clap in his wallie nieve a blade,<br />
He'll mak it whistle;<br />
An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned,<br />
Like taps o' thristle.<br />
<br />
Ye Pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,<br />
And dish them out their bill o' fare,<br />
Auld Scotland wants nae skinkin ware<br />
That jaups in luggies;<br />
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer,<br />
Gie her a haggis!<br />
<br />
At the line His knife see rustic Labour dicht the speaker normally draws and cleans a knife, and at the line An' cut you up wi' ready slicht, plunges it into the haggis and cuts it open from end to end. When done properly this "ceremony" is a highlight of the evening.<br />
</blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-15326302914996563462009-12-17T18:26:00.000-08:002009-12-17T18:26:27.843-08:00Film School NYFA - They're Made Out Of Meat<div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IfPdhsP8XjI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IfPdhsP8XjI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
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<blockquote>Short film produced at the New York Film Academy and directed by Stephen o'regan. (...)</blockquote><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27re_Made_Out_of_Meat">They're Made Out of Meat</a> is a Nebula Award-nominated short story by Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters, and Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival.</blockquote><blockquote>The two characters are sentient beings capable of traveling faster than light, on a mission to "contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe." Bisson's stage directions represent them as "two lights moving like fireflies among the stars" on a projection screen. They converse briefly on their bizarre discovery of carbon-based life, which they refer to incredulously as "thinking meat." They agree to "erase the records and forget the whole thing," marking the Solar System "unoccupied."</blockquote><blockquote>The story was collected in the 1993 anthology Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, and has circulated widely on the Internet, which Bisson finds "flattering." It has been quoted in cognitive, cosmological, and philosophical scholarship.</blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-80078339205457553142009-12-17T18:14:00.001-08:002009-12-17T18:14:38.544-08:00Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)<div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSgiXGELjbc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSgiXGELjbc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>[A] musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series. For more songs and their MP3s (including this one) check <a href="http://www.symphonyofscience.com/">The Symphony of Science</a> and <a href="http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/">Colorpulse</a>.<br />
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<blockquote>Lyrics:<br />
</blockquote><blockquote>[Sagan]<br />
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch<br />
You must first invent the universe<br />
<br />
Space is filled with a network of wormholes<br />
You might emerge somewhere else in space<br />
Some when-else in time<br />
<br />
The sky calls to us<br />
If we do not destroy ourselves<br />
We will one day venture to the stars<br />
<br />
A still more glorious dawn awaits<br />
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise<br />
A morning filled with 400 billion suns<br />
The rising of the milky way<br />
<br />
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths<br />
Of exquisite interrelationships<br />
Of the awesome machinery of nature<br />
<br />
I believe our future depends powerfully<br />
On how well we understand this cosmos<br />
In which we float like a mote of dust<br />
In the morning sky<br />
<br />
But the brain does much more than just recollect<br />
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes<br />
it generates abstractions<br />
<br />
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one<br />
Has an elaborate logical underpinning<br />
The brain has its own language<br />
For testing the structure and consistency of the world<br />
<br />
[Hawking]<br />
For thousands of years<br />
People have wondered about the universe<br />
Did it stretch out forever<br />
Or was there a limit<br />
<br />
From the big bang to black holes<br />
From dark matter to a possible big crunch<br />
Our image of the universe today<br />
Is full of strange sounding ideas<br />
<br />
[Sagan}<br />
How lucky we are to live in this time<br />
The first moment in human history<br />
When we are in fact visiting other worlds<br />
<br />
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean<br />
Recently we've waded a little way out<br />
And the water seems inviting<br />
</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-64474346776104004562009-08-31T14:21:00.000-07:002009-08-31T14:24:37.746-07:00Ulduar<div align="center"><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3hgcy6bsg4g&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3hgcy6bsg4g&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Here's [Summergale's] first collaboration with Cranius, a highly talented musician and machinima producer, and the incredibly awesome machinima artist Legs. Without their help and huge contributions, this video would likely have never seen the light of day. (...)<br />
<br />
"Ulduar" has a bit of a "Romeo and Juliet" theme, where the PvEer (sung by Summergale) is dating the PvPer (sung by Cranius). He's a punk and a bit of a rebel. She's a highly-skilled and geared raider. She wants to bring him along to her playground of choice, the newest most challenging raid instance. He wants nothing to do with it and wants to show her the dark side of PvP.</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-53832354666011694232009-08-31T14:15:00.000-07:002009-08-31T14:15:35.886-07:00The Lord of The Rings: Andúril, Flame of the West<div align="center"><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t5CrAM5BNSQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t5CrAM5BNSQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</a> is a 2003 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the concluding film in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy following The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002).<br />
<br />
As Sauron launches the final stages of his conquest of Middle-earth, Gandalf the Wizard, and Théoden King of Rohan rally their forces to help defend Gondor's capital Minas Tirith from the looming threat. Aragorn finally claims the throne of Gondor and summons an army of ghosts to help him defeat Sauron. Ultimately, even with full strength of arms, they realize they cannot win; so it comes down to the Hobbits, Frodo and Sam, who face the burden of the Ring and the treachery of Gollum, and finally arrive at Mordor, seeking to destroy the One Ring in Mount Doom. (...)<br />
<br />
Meanwhile Elrond arrives at the weapon-take of Dunharrow and reveals himself to Aragorn. He presents Aragorn with his birthright - the newly forged Andúril, Flame of the West. He urges Aragorn to use this sword, forged from the shards of Narsil, to recall the Dead Men of Dunharrow and use their allegiance to the heir of Isildur (i.e. Aragorn) to stop the attack of the Corsairs ships from the south. Aragorn accepts this counsel and rides off that very night into the Dimholt, along with Legolas and Gimli. </blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-4693001586552107182009-08-26T00:03:00.000-07:002009-08-26T00:05:42.425-07:00The Lord of the Rings: The Council of Elrond<div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q8xCI4B1Oy0&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q8xCI4B1Oy0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_%28film%29">The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</a> is a 2001 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the similarly titled first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Set in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker), who is seeking the One Ring (Alan Howard voice). The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions form the Fellowship of the Ring, and journey to Mount Doom in the land of Mordor: the only place where the Ring can be destroyed. (...)<br /><br />In Rivendell Frodo meets Gandalf, who explains why he didn't meet them at Bree as planned (he had escaped Orthanc and Saruman's clutches with the help of an eagle). In the meantime, there are many meetings between various peoples, and Elrond calls a council to decide what should be done with the Ring. The Ring can only be destroyed by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom, where it was forged. Mount Doom is located in Mordor, near Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr, and the journey to it will be incredibly dangerous. Frodo volunteers to take the Ring to Mount Doom as all the others argue about who should or shouldn't take it. He is accompanied by his hobbit friends and Gandalf, as well as Strider, who is revealed to be Aragorn, the rightful heir to the throne of Gondor. Also travelling with them are the Elf Legolas, the Dwarf Gimli and Boromir, the son of the Steward of Gondor. Together they comprise the Fellowship of the Ring.</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-91318349038482884842009-08-10T17:46:00.000-07:002010-03-16T01:01:48.805-07:00George Carlin - Saving the Planet<div align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7W33HRc1A6c&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7W33HRc1A6c&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin">George Denis Patrick Carlin</a> was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums. Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves. (...)<br />
<br />
[In this video] George talks about the self important attitude of people who think the planet is headed for total destruction.<br />
</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512871700616218933.post-85524992602256461522009-08-10T17:23:00.000-07:002010-07-23T00:08:23.538-07:00Mtn Dew Game Fuel ® World of Warcaft ® Edition "Choose Your Side"<div align="center"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gj_wHxkl0Gc&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gj_wHxkl0Gc&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>To help celebrate the launch of Mountain Dew Game Fuel® Citrus Cherry and Mountain Dew Game Fuel® Wild Fruit, Blizzard Entertainment® and Mountain Dew team up for a unique sweepstakes promotion. (...) <br />
<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft">World of Warcraft</a>, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, two years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.</blockquote></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13926980639104585458noreply@blogger.com0