Put Down the Ducky
I’m only able to recognize about one in ten late-80’s celebrities, but Pee-Wee Herman’s kind of hard to miss.
Tokyo Wave Pool
The System Sucks
BarBri
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:
The MySpace Numbers Salute
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.
Right now, somewhere in East Germany, somebody is blowing up a rail depot using nothing but mascara and a lot of hairspray.
Via Waxy, Fimoculous, Tomorrow Music, Ekstatis, and apparently IndieNudes (NSFW) though I can’t find the actual link..
Repo! The Genetic Opera
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.
Plus, it features Paris Hilton, why not.
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.
Space Nazis
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.
Little Room
This 50 second White Stripes song is one of my all-time favorites.
You very rarely hear 50 second songs these days.
Tragedy in Harvard Square
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.
Prescient Sliders
Speaking of prescient, here’s a very forward thinking clip from a ten-year-old episode of Sliders:
Lore Sjoberg Video: Twitter
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):


Jonathan Coulton

Wil Wheaton

Jeanne Tripplehorn (on the side, there)
