For my mother:

I now know exactly how I’m going to spend all of my time in Tokyo.

You wouldn’t like me when I’m curious!

One or two people have asked me what preparing for the bar is like. The answers I’ve given have been undirected and light on detail. Here, in video form, is actually a pretty decent recap of what some of the BarBri (bar preparation people) lecturers are like:

This hypnotic video of girls on MySpace reciting their friend ID numbers to verify their identities is like the modern version of the Numbers Stations.

Repo! The Genetic Opera is a forthcoming rock opera featuring a world where organs are financed and then, when the debts cannot be repaid, are repossessed. Yuck. It’s like a cross between Urinetown and Repo Man.

The Andy Rooney Game:

Here’s how you play: Using Final Cut Pro, take out everything but the first sentence and the last sentence from Andy Rooney’s latest segment on 60 Minutes. Then you put that on youtube. That’s it! Check it out:

Via Cynical-C and Metafilter.

Remember that scene in Contact when they first decode the visual aspect of the alien signal, and it’s footage of Hitler, which somewhat understandable freaks out many of those in attendance? Well, what if it wasn’t aliens playing with a quirk of television broadcast-signal history, but was instead the first wave of a space-based Nazi resurgence?

It could happen:

Via YesButNoButYes.

This 50 second White Stripes song is one of my all-time favorites.

You very rarely hear 50 second songs these days.

And thus perished fifty forlorn “pit” kids. When the firemen arrived all that was left was a tuft of green, dreadlocked hair, and a partially melted bellybutton ring. Also, an overwhelming sense of ennui.

Ok, it didn’t really kill any pit kids. I used to park my bike right there, it would have gotten singed… that would have been a true tragedy. This could have been my bike:

More information at Boston.com.

Via Cynical-C.

Speaking of prescient, here’s a very forward thinking clip from a ten-year-old episode of Sliders:

Lore Sjoberg has departed from his spate of ratings-based videos and has done rehashing his most recent Wired column:

I strongly preferred the ratings-based videos, but this one was worthwhile for the drawings of Internet-type people (and Jeanne Tripplehorn, sortof):

Jason Kottke





Jonathan Coulton


Wil Wheaton


Jeanne Tripplehorn (on the side, there)

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