This is maybe one of my favorite commercials ever: It’s funny as hell1, but there’s something awfully familiar about it too. I think everyone recognizes the kid’s conviction that the world is full of magic, as well as his sad, slow-motion realization that really it isn’t. And the deus-ex-machina restoration of faith at the end [...]
Jake Shimabukuro’s version of As My Guitar Gently Weeps, performed entirely on Ukelele, is quite literally breathtaking:
I’m nearing the end of two weeks of vacation. It’s an odd and disconcerting thing to have your days free, and I’ve tried to fill my time with constructive things: writing, chipping fecklessly away at various landfills of email, going to the gym, planning unconsummated trips to DC. Mostly it’s all just noise to stave [...]
I absolutely love this Jarrett Heather video, for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac.
This video makes me smile, every single time I see it. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. OK Go went viral a couple of years ago with a fantastic video that featured them doing cool things on treadmills, and yet, incredibly, their record company has forbidden them from allowing [...]
This passage, from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, just blew me away: When he and Hooke and Wilkins had cut open live dogs during the Plague Years, Daniel had looked into their straining brown eyes and tried to fathom what was going in their minds. He’d decided that nothing was, that dogs had no conscious minds, no [...]
Norway’s Consumer Council isn’t happy with the Amazon Kindle, a sleek, beautiful book reader whose inherent awesomeness is sullied by a toxic stew of heavy-handed digital rights management, big-brotherish privacy violations, and inscrutable, nonsensical restrictions. Some of the lowlights: Amazon reserves the right to track a bunch of stuff about what you’re doing with the [...]
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