Need some inspiration? Here you go:
Hit play or watch 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes at YouTube.
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Everything’s Amazing; Nobody’s Happy
Very funny Conan clip. Catch it while you can.
Hit play or watch Everything’s amazing, Nobody’s Happy at YouTube.
(Thanks Rocky)
Some Awesome Things
Enjoy these awesome things:
Hit play or watch Some Awesome Things at Youtube.
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What’s really awesome is that it’s warm enough (here) to go play basketball and street hockey at the end of November. (Don’t get me wrong, climate change is very bad news for the long term).
Creepy Face Art Videos
This collection of Face Art videos on Flickr is sure to drop your jaw, or at least creep you out just a little.
Polling the World of Warcraft
I suppose there are going to be selection bias issues when polling players in the World of Warcraft, but nevertheless, the results are interesting and as election day is upon us, let’s hope that the election polls match all of the other polls we’ve been hearing about.
Hit play or watch Election Duel! at Youtube.
Oh and if you’re an eligible voter in the US elections, and have not voted today, STOP READING THIS WEBSITE AND GO VOTE!
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Joe McCain’s 911 Call
While it shouldn’t affect anyone’s vote anyway, it must be extremely embarrassing for John McCain’s already faltering campaign.
On October 18th, at about 1:30am, John McCain’s brother was stuck in traffic. Instead of chilling out and just waiting to get through, he called 911. When told that 911 was only for emergencies, he dropped an f-bomb and hung up.
Here’s a snippet of the transcript:
Operator: Alexandria 911, state your emergency
Caller: Well, it’s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic’s coming the other way across the drawbridge?
Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)
Caller: [Expletive] you. (caller hangs up)
The operator called the caller back and received this message: “Hi this is Joe McCain I can’t take this message now because I’m involved in a very important family political project. I hope on Nov. 4th we have elected John.
Then Joe decides to call back to complain about getting told off and then gets told off AGAIN for calling 911 for non-emergencies.
Hit play or watch Joe McCain calls 911 about a traffic jam on YouTube.
The Archive
Paul Mawhinney has the world’s greatest music collection. In it, every genre of American music is represented: rock, country, R&B, blues, jazz, new age, Broadway and Hollywood, bluegrass, folk, children’s, comedy, and more. It contains approximately 1 million albums and 1.5 million singles. It is estimated that only 17% of the music he owns is available on CD.
Every recording in this amazing collection has been purchased by its owner, Paul Mawhinney, over a period of a half century, and stored in a 16,000 square foot climate – controlled warehouse. Many millions of dollars have been invested in the acquisition and storage of the collection, the estimated value of which is now greater than fifty million dollars.
Documentary maker Sean Dunne recently met the man behind the incredible music collection. Watch as Paul Mawhinney explains his archive and his efforts to find a proper home for his life’s work.
THE ARCHIVE from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
Hit play or watch The Archive on Vimeo.
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Hollywood Director Attack Ads
What if John Woo, Kevin Smith, and Wes Anderson directed political attack ads?
Hit play or watch Hollywood Director Attack Ads on YouTube.
I’m not much of a John Woo fan, but the other two were right on.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Release Date Announced
I’m happy to hear that Adobe will be releasing their newest version of Photoshop in just a couple of weeks. The entire Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is targeting a release date for October 15, 2008.
Here’s a quick video demonstrating one of Photoshop CS4’s amazing new abilities (which was foreshadowed here) to scale intelligently based on the content of an image.
It opens up a whole new can of worms in the ethics of editing photos department, but at the same time, it looks REALLY fun to use.
Hit play or watch Content Aware Scaling on YouTube.
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Five must see open course video lectures
Since the introduction of open lectures by progressive thinking educational institutions like M.I.T., Stanford, Duke, Yale, and others, many exceptional presentations have bubbled to the top and should be watched.
Here are five must see open course video lectures as recommended by Virginia Heffernan of the NYTimes.
- Walter H. G. Lewin, Powers of 10, M.I.T. (At about 2:40 watch Power of Ten video that is cut from the lecture)
- Randy Pausch, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Carnegie Mellon
- Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational, Duke and M.I.T. (the rest of his short clips)
- Langdon Hammer, Modern Poetry, Yale
- Christine Hayes, Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), Yale
I also recommend Mark Schlissel, Introduction – The Cell Theory, Bacteria, Animal Cells, Evolution (Viruses and Midochondria). (The good stuff starts at about 13:00).
I listened to about a quarter of all the lectures from this course—most of which were over my head, but the first and second (mp3) classes are fascinating and make me wish I studied biology at school.