And as the new year starts, we shed a little tear for El Pelon.

Nick and I just received the Flip cameras we ordered off Woot a few days ago, and having basically an empty office today, decided to play around with them.



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And unrelated, we also did a video last night while messing around with a Nord and some tv we found on the shelves that has an audio input and generates some visuals in response.



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Angry monkeys turn on their cruel trainer and beat him senseless with his own stick after he handed out a vicious beating to one of the trio during a performance riding mini bicycles in a market in Sizhou, China

The five most terrifying local TV Christmas Commercials.

Colorado Doctor Finds Foot in Newborn's Brain

The creator of Katamari's new game, Noby Noby Boy, sounds just as bizarre as one would hope.

And probably the most hilariously contextual url I've seen in a while too:
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Maybe between Little Big World, Blu-Ray and this a PS3 will be worth it sometime... maybe?

For like the past 20 minutes I've been hearing this incessant harmonica music going non-stop from somewhere outside. It's been driving me crazy. Eventually I went looking for the cause, and it's just some dude sitting in his car, going wild on the harmonica, wobbling around in the driver's seat and stamping his feet in time. Part of me is proud of him, part of me wants to throw something heavy out the window.

The dream is alive!

That's some crazy shit right there...



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I was giving a little talk & tour this morning to some juniors and seniors from the marketing and advertising program at BC this morning. It was mostly about the way our company works and our process and the like, but at one point, I was talking about how the landscape of the internet's changed over the years. Just stuff about how different technologies and trends come and go and how that affects the sort of work we see from project to project. This lead to a brief talk about that whole "web2.0" evolution and how user-generated content and social networks really took the limelight for a bit there, for which I mostly credited/blamed Friendster.

It wasn't the real point of our conversation, so I was just sort of breezing along, but I had to pause for a minute when I saw that there were a lot of blank stares throughout the room. So I stopped to see where I'd lost them, and it turns out that none of them had ever heard of Friendster.

I was staring at the wall in the bathroom at Eastern Standard last night when I got into a discussion with a fashionably-dressed man about the recession. More specifically, the effect the recession was having on the bathroom. See, usually Eastern Standard has these delightfully fancy paper towels of a dense enough weight and weave that skirts the borders of the napkin family. Nice enough at least to feel a little badly about tossing them away. This time however, the countertop by the sink was stacked with the typical dispense-style folded paper towels.

Not necessarily proof of the recession; perhaps just a shortage of the usual towels. However, when coupled with the installation of a brand new hand dryer, one's gotta wonder. I have this half-impression that they were actually installing it while we were there, but I can't back that up. But in any case, behold! The Dyson Airblade.

I hadn't seen a dryer like this since Japan, home of weird ways to dry things. This baby adds an interesting challenge to the whole bathroom experience as the night wanes on. It's not too far off from the refueling sequence in the old Top Gun game, or a really wet version of Operation. It also pushes the skin around on your hands like an Xlerator does, but this time from both sides at once. All the more amusing. Who says economics isn't fun?

Christmas is coming, and it's coming on the wings of a giant bronze penis.

I can't stop listening to this. It's so unsettlingly earnest.



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Today I learned that, when drowning insects, you should use soapy water because it reduces the surface tension of the water and forces it into the bug faster.

Also, I think using a car GPS system requires the same sort of leap of faith that eventually leads to Skynet.

Yes we can.

Simon Pegg's take on Dead Set and the advent of running zombies.

Well, guess I sorta jinxed myself there. Today's cashier took my quarter without batting an eye. Sure was good while it lasted tho.

First, a man tries to pay his bill with a drawing of a spider. Then, the spider drawing sold for $15,000 on ebay.

That reminds me. I've got this gnarly quarter that I was nervous to try on my building's notoriously fussy laundry machines. Instead, I've decided to try and spend it at Starbucks, which I honestly didn't think would be much of a challenge. However, the first time I tried to use it, the cashier refused to take it, offering to cover the change for me instead. After that, each time I've tried to use it, the people at the register have given me my coffee for free. It's proven a hellish road towards achieving my goals, but a somewhat cosmic avenue to getting free coffee.

Detroit Metal City is pretty hilarious.

Souichi Negishi is a shy young man who came from the rural Ota Prefecture to Tokyo for college and wished to become a trendy pop singer. However, for some reason he became the singer and songwriter of a metal band named "Detroit Metal City," with a stage name "Johannes Krauser II." Whenever he wears the heavy makeup, Negishi becomes a completely different person, shouting the most vulgar profanities beyond anyone's imagination. With the popularity of DMC increases, Negishi starts worrying his double personalities can have negative effects on his (romantic) life off stage.

Godzilla has always been a creature of nature- a response to man's destructive technological prowess. And now, like so many times before, the unstoppable giant kaiju is back once more, this time more in a more literally ecological context. Sort of. Well see, he's back as a tree.

Godzilla Tree Terrorizes City



The video where they dramatically explore each angle of the tree that doesn't look like Godzilla is a nice treat.