When John McCain met Sarah Palin for the first time, you have to wonder, did he think Hey, you remind me of someone.
Here’s a little SNL clip from the weekend of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
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T.J’s Electrical Music Saw
Musician T.J. Hill hooked a saw up to his amp and now rocks out on the tool. Check out his rendition of Amazing Grace.
Hit play or watch T.J’s Electrical Music Saw at Youtube.
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The Shock Doctrine
In a couple of weeks Naomi Klein (author of The Shock Doctrine, and No Logo) is coming to the University of Lethbridge to discuss themes from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The book is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world—through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors’ beliefs now dominate our world—and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq—this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.
The following is the Shock Doctrine short film, it neatly summarizes how the Shock Doctrine works.
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Tab Cola Commercial
Here’s another one of those Tab Cola commercials from the 70’s early 80’s (previously). Same premise:
- hot bikini girl walks on the beach
- a man wants to drink Tab Cola
- girlfriend pours ice water on the man
- the man laughs because he realizes his girlfriend thought he was attracted to the bikini girl and wasn’t just craving a nice cool drink of Tab Cola
- Then everything is ok
Genius!
Hit play or watch Tab Cola at YouTube.
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Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy
There might be a problem in your country, but in this particular case, it’s a lack of basic science—I hate to encourage people laughing at someone that doesn’t know what they’re talking about, but it’s too good to resist when she announces that “this didn’t happen 20 years ago!”
Hit play or watch Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy at Youtube.
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DNA Folding
Paul Rothemund will send chills down your spine as he explains the astonishing potential of DNA folding in this great TED talk from September 2007.
Hit play or watch Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding. See also—Paul’s other talk on DNA folding, Paul Rothemund casts a spell with DNA.
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2nd Annual Lethbridge Zombie Walk
Last night was the 2nd annual Lethbridge Zombie Walk. Here are a few photos I captured of the event:
See my complete Lethbridge Zombie Walk 2008 set.
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Tab Cola Ad
“Great taste for beautiful people.” Check out this crazy Tab Cola ad from 1982. These were simpler times.
Hit play or watch TaB cola ad 1982 at YouTube.
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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Dancing Robots
A short video showing the entertaining robot, Titan.
From the website:
Titan the robot is the new and unique entertainment concept that has taken the United Kingdom by storm. Titan is equally at home in almost any arena and switches from street theatre to corporate hospitalty with ease. In fact the events Titan has previously appeared at have spanned almost every possible genre including large outdoor events, product launces, celebrity partes, trade shows, shopping centres, music festivals, fashion shows, and even several TV appearances and has even been used in a national advertising campaign by one for the UK’s largest holiday companies.
Titan’s allure spans all age groups, ethnic backgrounds and languages, he really does have a universal appeal; we have yet to find an event where Titan doesn’t fit in.
Hit play or watch Three Robot’s Dancing at Youtube.