Month: October 2008

I’m trying to clean out some old links, so here are some videos I’ve been saving:

• Bush or Batman — I couldn’t pass this quiz. Can you?
• Fonts personified — “Mailbox! Mailbox! Mailbox!”
• I Am Home Alone Legend — Just what it says on the package.
• Jonathan Coulton and Felcia Day sing “Still Alive” — And so my little crush on Felicia Day continues unabated.
• Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel sing, too — Their ridiculous enthusiasm is sort of profoundly awesome.
• And while we’re talking about How I Met Your Mother, let me just reiterate how much I love this video
• Gremlins 2 “DVR Break” — The making of video is pretty neat, too.
• Star Trek as The A-Team — Silly, but I love it.

Yahoo has this annoying habit of not linking to specific news stories — and often not even mentioning what the story is — in their news photos. So you get, for instance, something like this, which offers nothing beyond the very unhelpful caption of “A can of Coca-Cola is pictured in San Diego June 23, 2008.” Which raises questions but doesn’t answer any. Is it a story about Coca-Cola, San Diego, late June of 2008? It’s part of their “Odd News,” so it could be interesting.

Turns out it’s about the 2008 Ig Noble Awards, which in part revealed the effectiveness of Coca-Cola as a spermicide. It’s true, you will see “us_ignobels” if you parse that first link above, but wouldn’t it just be simpler to tell users why a photo is there?

And here are some not at all random songs:

1. “Thank You Mario but Our Princess Is in Another Castle” by The Mountain Goats and Kaki King
2. “Anna” by Hello Saferide
3. “Rivers of Babylon” by Sinéad O’Connor
4. “Mull of Kintyre” by Wings
5. “Lost Coastlines” by Okkervil River
6. “We Can’t Make it Here” by James McMurtry
7. “Cool Kids” by Screeching Weasel
8. “Wriggly Fingers” by Patty Griffin
9. “Sex on Fire” by Kings of Leon
10. “Hold On” by Tom Waits
11. “Green Grass” by Cibelle
12. “Great Divide” by the Cardigans
13. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Bjork
14. “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You” by Emiliana Torrini
15. “Apocalypse Cow” by SeepeopleS
16. “Boring” by the Pierces
17. “Furr” by Blitzen Trapper

There’s no more Muxtape (which is not remotely surprising), but I’m still open to trades.

This is going to be painful to watch, isn’t it?

Update: Yup, pretty much.