Computery Stuff - You MIT Boffins

are alright...

Comedy - Baked Fuzz

The Hot Fuzz boys, caned out of their mentals, decide that Nick's cake would be wasted in their bellies:

Hodgman - First strike in the Hobo Uprising?

They're attacking what we hold most dear - our Internets!

TV - Brass Eye archive

... can be found here (courtesy of John Hodgman).

Celebrities - "bruised, battered and covered in baked beans"

... but why the beans, Hugh, why?

Virtua - Literally Too Good To Be True

From what I can gather, a wonderful man made this on his PC...
Please notice, among other fighters:
- Count Duckula
- Winnie t. Pooh
- Fred Flintstone
- Fat Albert
- Mr. Incredible
- Leela

Movies - Early Quentin

The excellence of Death Proof inspired me to browse some 'Tino online, and I found his first ever student film. Early stages of QT-style dialogue, soundtrack choices and fight choreography are all there. File under "interesting".

Movies - Grindhouse

Their mistake was underestimating the stupidity of the audience:

Grindhouse is to be broken into two films following its disastrous showing at the US box office last weekend. The Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino collaboration will now be released overseas as two separate features. There are also plans to re-release the production as two films in the US.

[..]

Moreover, there have been reports that many film-goers have been confused by the movie's structure - mistakenly assuming that there was only one film on offer and leaving the cinema en-masse after the Rodriguez section.

Science & Religion - Dawkins Interviews (Liberal) Bishop of Oxford

All-too-rare respectful interview from Dawkins. Both sides emerge looking good.

Eclectico - Conan O'Brien and Hunter S. Thompson Go Shooting

Sound and Vision - Green Screen

Heavy rotation of the Decemberists' single "O Valencia" on LA's Indie 103.1FM reminded me of the Colbert-angering Green-Screen Video Challenge they set up.

I trawled through a few entries to the contest, and it was really interesting to see the difference between the undoubtedly very very good unsuccesful entries... [another example here:



...and the eventual takes-it-a-step-further winner.

A reminder that in the creative industry you can be very good technically, but unless you got that zinger of a creative idea, you'll be forgotten about.

Politick - John Bolton on Daily Sh... Whaaa?

Music - The Influence of "Myriad," Is Felt

Think what we could do if we had both this back catalogue and Troobs and Jim onstage...

TV - The Sopranos

Whaa??

Health - Stuff people do in their sleep

Terrifying, sexy and sometimes both..

Biology - to quote Sideshow Bob...

Shake it, madam!

Satire - N-word Guys

Future UFC champion Luke pointed me to the premiere of Season 11 of South Park, which is quite the most intelligent treatment I've seen of the Michael Richards controversy, especially in light of the eventual legal ramifications. You should look at it.

[NB - Jake - can you remind me how to reconfigure mplayer so I can make captures? This post needs one.]

Internet - Encyclopedia Schmencyclopedia

I hope that Colbert goes to town with this...

Fun - 826CHI

That Dave Eggers's alright...

The Mules - XFM Session MP3s (with regrettable beeps)

Hello there. I ripped these off the John F. Kennedy XFM show (25th Feb 07 edition) through the internet.

I was, I realise now, chit-chatting on my instant messenger however, so the tracks are peppered with 'ping' noises. Still very listenable, but purists beware.

Polly-O

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