Zen Parable, or Just Someone Being Cruel?
Chinese Gold Farmers: the Documentary
Nosefrida is a doctor recommended nasal aspirator that removes mucous from your child’s nose. If you’ve read Angela’s Ashes, you know exactly what I’m thinking of.
Adorably kawaii (and explicit) AIDS ads from France. Featuring sappy British punk as the soundtrack, for some reason.
I am, of course, at a disadvantage since I was unable to watch it live, nor with the (scintillating, I am told) Terry Wogan commentary.
Thank God for YouTube.
Elitsa and Stoyan should have won, in my perfect world. Though judging by the production values of the actual performances, I can see why they might not have been rated as high as the actual winner. But not that they came in fifth.
I am pleasantly surprised that I actually LIKED all of the top 5, though the Turkish and Russian entries are definitely guilty pleasures. Especially the Russian…
I also give major props to the voters that Verka Serdyuchka (Ukraine’s favorite anti-Russian drag queen) got second place. Though the song itself isn’t really worthy of it, and performance was fabulous.
Likewise, I was pretty impressed with the actual winner, Serbia’s Marija Serifovic performing Molitva. She had at least three major strikes against her that I was counting:
A libertarian, free-market analysis of Mr. Rogers’ 1969 appeal to Congress.
Appropriately enough, some quite un-Objectivist souls have altruistically attempted to more fully inform the rest of their fellow consumers about some fabulous mobile phone opportunities. All hail the Market!
Even Danes have trouble with Danish. Send help.
I don’t care if you live in Krakow, you really don’t want to name your company Eurokrak. Just a hint.
gilbert and sullivan’s timeless classic, baby got back
stills from Tenacious D. Now you can have JB & KG’s asses as your desktop! Score!
1978 BBC doc on Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman. Hijinks ensue!
I like it, but this has no reason to exist: Billy Idol, Slash, and Derek Sherinian cover “In the Summertime”. Slash?!???
the revolution will not be televised, but silly interviews always have a market
Gil Scott Heron
Networking. One of a series of spoofs of Apple’s now well-known Mac/PC ads.
(via tv in japan
(via neil gaiman
Calvin and Hobbes, the later years: Mars is amazing…Mars is amazing
No, apparently NPH really wouldn’t do that
It’s finally going to screen somewhere!
(As excerpted in disinformation
chicken sexing is unexpectedly fascinating: In the 1950s, several machines were invented that illuminated and magnified the cloacas of newborn chicks, and chicks could be sexed by inspecting them with this machine.
Break it Up, the hit song by Carl Lewis and the Electric Storm. If only all athletes were this skilled in the musical arts.
The Shock of the New World, with respect to the flora and fauna of Australia. Bit of a hodgepodge, but I liked it. Try to get as far as the useful flammability of eucalyptus forests, and the inverted culinary social priorities of the class structure:
Convicts traditionally ate salted meat - which signified lack of property, for only the landed could enjoy fresh beef or lamb - and fresh fish. The ceremonial food of the free must therefore be fresh meat and salt fish.
Stevie Wonder. Superstitious. Live on Sesame Street. There was, oddly, no leavening of muppets, but check out the VERY SERIOUS maraca player in the green shirt, and the tiny little hesher on the balcony.
…friendly faces everywhere (until the MPAA shuts them down).
Every episode, straight through season 10. Ye gods. I finally saw the Lemmiwinks episode. I feel dirty in a good way.
