I stumble across any number of odd things in my net adventures. Here are some interesting links I never got around to posting about:
VIDEOS
- "Weasel Stomping Day": Seth Green's Robot Chicken created a video for the amusingly bizarre Weird Al track off his latest album, Straight Outta Lynwood. Outta respect for Weird Al, I won't point out the Simpson's did it in '93.
- "Make Love, Not Warcraft": South Park's season 10 premiere involves the boys fighting an epic griefer in Blizzard's crazy popular massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft. The pure geekery of this episode makes me tingle in places I didn't know geeks had.
- "Biff's Question Song": Tom Wilson (perhaps better known as "Biff" from Back to the Future) released a video on YouTube of part of his comedy routine where he talks about and answers many of the questions he's asked all the time. He didn't answer my question, though: "What the heck is a Gigawatt?"
- "I am a Mac - boom": A quick spoof of the "I'm a Mac" ads. If only this would really happen to Justin Long's Mac character.
- "MC Trebek in Da Hizouse": Jeopardy's College Championship featured a category in which Trebek had to read off rap quotes and the contestants had to guess who the artist was. Of course I got them all right. I thought the last one was easy, but what do I know, I'm an old man.
- "You Jackin' It?": Cleveland's own investigative
jerk reporter Carl Monday did a six part story on some guy who masturbated to porn at the local library. The Daily Show decided to do a spot on the story and try to uncover the secrets to Monday's awesome journalistic powers. Amusing in itself, doubly so if you happen to live here in Northeastern Ohio. - Jose Canseco aids the Indians in scoring a home run: A classic baseball moment, particularly in Cleveland Indians history. No Golden Gloves for this guy.
- Red Dwarf "Backwards" - What did he really say?: If you're not a fan of the British sci-fi comedy, Red Dwarf, then just move along, gimboid. This video shows what is actually being said in one of the backwards sequences of the episode of the same name. Daehgems a er'ouy.
- Kevin Smith on his worst sexual experience: Director of Clerks, etc., talks candidly about his very amusing (and painful) worst sexual experience. I think I may adopt Kevin Smith's "I never take my shirt off" policy, it just makes good sense.
- Tetris imagined with Chiclets: What will those crazy French think of next?
- The Halo theme performed by HS students: If you've played Halo (or Halo 2) for more than 5 minutes (or sat in the menu screen for an equal length of time) you'll no doubt appreciate this arrangement by a group of Highschool students. Man, I wish being a geek was cool when I was in highschool. Also, that violinist chick rocks! Call me when you're legal.
- Leo's Angels: Hokey but amusing bit from the heyday of The Screen Savers featuring the classic girls of TSS as well as a highly amusing cameo by Kevin Rose. Could we pine any more often for TechTV?
- Time Fountain: A little homebrew "fountain" (drip machine) with a tweakable strobe that causes the drips to appear to be floating in mid air or even falling in reverse. Reminds me why I decided to take that strobe light out of my bathroom.
- Animation with penlights: An amateur Japanese filmmaker/artist shoots videos with his crew drawing pictures in the air with penlights. It just goes to show what the Japanese can accomplish when they take their minds away from house-servant robots, underage girls in prep school outfits, and putting tentacles where they don't belong.
- Why Macs Suck: An older video, parodying the Mac ads of the time, talks about why Macs suck. What can I say, I like to fan the flames of the PC-Mac conflict.
- Fox News Interviews Bill Clinton: Unlike everything else here, this isn't a comedy video, nor is it short (about 15 minutes total). It's purely here for the few readers I have that might be interested in politics and didn't see the clip when it first aired. To sum it up, Clinton basically takes his interviewer to task for "ambushing" him concerning his handling of bin Laden while in office, then outlines everything his administration did before leaving office. It's cool to see him speak his mind and speak frankly, and it makes me long for the halcion days when we actually had an eloquent Commander in Chief.
AUDIO
- Billy West Interview: Billy West, the prolific voice actor known most-recently for his work as Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, and many others on Futurama, was recently interviewed by KMOX/St. Louis's Paul Harris about returning to his characters in Futurama and the trend of Hollywood actors being chosen to voice characters instead of more talented VO professionals. You know, me and Billy are in talks to bring Dr. Katonian to television. He expressed keen interest in voicing the character. Well, at least he did in my daydreams, and that sketch in my yellow pad entitled "Me + Billy = BFF".
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