Notes
Links and commentary on stuff I find interesting.
August 2010
Berkeley’s Sock-inverting Robot
Never thought I would say this, but thank goodness for YouTube comments. I hope “inferring the grasp point” catches on as innuendo.
The 2010 World Yo-yo Champion
I wonder if this is actually an effective way to pick up chicks. Ladies?
Deleted Opening Scene from Return of the Jedi
Awesome. It would also nice to see this some time without it being drowned out by the sound of so many nerds losing their minds.
Devour
Hand-picked videos from YouTube et al. Great way to kill a Friday night when your friends are all stupid and don’t want to go see Scott Pilgrim. I've heard.
Mac OS X Flash Player now supports H.264 GPU decoding
So if you have one of the supported graphics cards, are running a browser other than Chrome (which will update itself), and you sometimes like to watch videos on the internet, you might want to take the time to manually update that now.
The Mini Cannon
This looks like such an adorable way to completely blow your own hand off.
McNugget Rampage
McDonalds' breakfast-lunch barrier so enrages a woman that she mounts an attack through the drive-through window. The good part starts at about 1:15, but my favorite bit was the very end, when business abruptly continues as normal for the next car.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer recreated with scenes from the comic
Looks like there aren’t too many discrepancies.
Blackstar Warrior Trailer
Star Wars as a blaxploitation film.
Monotoning with Echo Nest Remix
Or, what if all your favorite songs were sung by Alvin & the Chipmunks and Satan?
ATTN’s Bed Intruder Song is now on iTunes
It’s an extended version, and proceeds are being split between the Dodsons and the Gregory brothers.
Hierarchy of Robot Needs
A parody of this, of course.
When Future Historian Comes To 1910
David Friedman of Ironic Sans finds a newspaper article about himself.
♫ Never-ending stooooorryyyyyyyyyy… ♪
CAPTCHArt
Comics made from reverse Turing tests.
A preview clip from the new Looney Tunes Show
In before Dan gets a chance to share this.
Mary Carillo’s Badminton Rant
Apparently this aired in the middle of the night during the 2004 Olympics. Starts kinda slow, but stick with it.
July 2010
Japanese Ad for the “Potato Chip Hand”
Why did they hire a white guy for this ad if they were just going to dub over him? Are we that closely associated with potato chips and not wanting to get our hands dirty?
Bradley and Bethany
A short story of App Store review fan fiction.
Color Cycling with HTML5
Mark Ferrari’s work is amazing.