Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Arnold Schoenberg’s 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke
Played by cats
Adult Size Spider Man – $30
“You can use Spiderman here as a dummy passenger in your car so you can drive in the HOV lanes because he looks so realistic. The first thing a cop will think is ‘Oh, that car is fine; it has one person driving and Spiderman in the front seat. That’s totally normal.’”
From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Star Wars recreated by fans in 473 15-second clips
Post office box, post office box, post office box
The world’s first USB-powered chainsaw. “The power of the chainsaw re-engineered for the desktop.”
“I wouldn’t bring my luggage, because you’d just go and break it, into a thousand pieces, just like you broke my heart.”
Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”
Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.
Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”