Stream
November 24, 2006
… A very cool visual way to multiply numbers large and small.
… The history of pop music in four chords. Guy combines lines from famous pop songs into one long blob, with only the same four-chord progression on the piano while other guy sits on beanbag playing videogames.
… How to play that song Mad How to play that song Mad World from Donnie Darko on piano.
… This really annoyed me: MSN is streaming Arrested Development, but you need Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to watch. Wtf. WTF!?
… James Blunt returns to Kosovo. He was apparently serving in Kosovo with the British Armed Forces when war broke out, and in 2k6 he returned to play a concert for the soldiers still stationed there. To use an expression that is so often used in a wrong way, Random!
… YouTube users love French anchorwoman Melissa Theuriau.
… Cucumis is an online community of translation dealers. You translate to accumulate credits, then get a translation in return. Even Albanian! Communal quid pro quo. Luv it.
… Variety mag: “VHS, 30, dies of loneliness.”
… “I wanted to take portraits of people that would reveal a hidden part of their character.. so I had them play videogames.”
… “MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.” People like Steve Wozniak, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Friedman.