Coldplay – The Hardest Part
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 24, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Coldplay gets their big break on 80′s morning show “Attitudes”.
Actually, the hardest part is watching this video all the way through. Harold and Maude, eat your heart out, here come Spencer and Barbara. As a friend of mine said: “This is like watching synchronized swimming, but without the water”. It’s getting harder and harder to separate fact from fiction on the web; this is either a clip from an 80′s show call “Attitudes”, or an elaborate scheme by Coldplay to get some exposure. Decide for yourself…
View full-size video on YouTube here.
Meet Your Maker: Mr. Deity
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 22, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008In these hilarious, slickly produced YouTube clips, you’ll learn that even the Creator of the Universe has bad days.
If you missed Mr. Deity back in 2006, it’s time for you to meet your maker. These simple yet slickly-produced shorts are one of the reasons I love the evolving world of streaming video. In episode one of Mr. Deity, the creator of the universe and his assistant are wrapping up creation and deciding how much evil to keep in the design, so as to maintain free will as part of the plan. Assistant: “Holocaust, Torture, and Downe’s Syndrome…those three alone…make it kind of hard to believe in you…throw in a hard winter or two, NO-one’s gonna believe in you…” Check out the rest of the episodes here, and read the interview with Mr. Deity on Crackle.com
Getting Joost
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on July 19, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Joost – a new way to watch TV and streaming video, from the creators of Skype and Kazaa.
As a media-addicted person who can’t stand conventional television (I shut off my cable service in 2004), I’m always looking for new ways to feed my film & video jones. For television programs that people recommend, I usually BitTorrent . For news video, I can usually find a decent stream somewhere on the web. For film, I rent a lot of DVD’s, and catch the couple of big-screen-worthy films released each year in an actual theater, usually at matinee prices. Yes, I’m a cheap bastard. That’s why I was intrigued last year when I heard that the guys who created Skype and the much-litigated Kazaa (Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis) were working on a project called Joost , a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer technology. Although I signed up as an early Beta user, the available content at launch time didn’t thrill me, so I waited until today to try it. If you want some television-like content on your computer, you HAVE to try this. After a reasonable download (11MB) and a very simple account setup, I was browsing an amazing variety of worthwile content. Media partners include A&E, PBS, National Geographic, CBS, BET, and many, many more. According to their site, 28,000+ shows and 480+ channels. You can download Joost here.