Chatroulette

March 5th, 2010

Old Spice

March 4th, 2010

As discussed at lunch…

The shirt around the neck kills it!

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How it Should Have Ended: Star Trek

March 3rd, 2010

New TRON Legacy trailer shown at Super Secret Event

March 2nd, 2010

Tron Legacy trailer secret event

I am really hoping this is good. I don’t think Disney is going to take this all the way to the Heart of Darkness but all the elements are there.

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Worst Song

February 26th, 2010

As discussed at lunch…

From This American Life episode “Numbers”:

Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar hired a polling firm to investigate what people want to see in paintings. Then, using the data, they painted what people want. It turned out to be a landscape, with a mountain and a lake, and deer, and a family, and George Washington.

 

Then they applied these techniques to music, with composer David Soldier. This “most wanted” version combines the elements the 500 people surveyed said they wanted most — love, soprano sax, humble ambition, tenor sax, a marriage proposal, cheesy electronic drum fills, working the night shift, string swells, power chords, and saccharine male/female harmonies — into an easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Wanted-Song.mp3

(For the worst song) Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-UnwantedSong.mp3

The most unwanted song is 25 minutes long but is hilarious!

The whole article can be heard here and is part of act 2 http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=88

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Olympic Spirit

February 24th, 2010

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

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Yippie Ki-Yay Mofos

February 21st, 2010

The United States of Facebook

February 12th, 2010

Peter Warden has done a bit of analysis on 210 public Facebook profiles to determine how we are connected to each other, and come up with a map of the United States of Facebook:

The United States of Facebook

Peter’s discussion is here

Brad Technology

The USDA makes its ADAL debut

February 12th, 2010

The USDA released a “Food Atlas” tool earlier this week. For those of us who love maps and data it’s some pretty good stuff:

USDA Food Atlas

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That’s What She Said

February 4th, 2010

ok, the “put the doggy in the bathtub” line, pretty much put me on the floor.

WARNING: Some language, NSFW

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