December 2009
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Amazing first-hand account of what happened on... →
Roey Rosenblith, the passenger who wrote the piece, is the director of a company trying to create affordable solar power in rural Uganda, and he recounts the whole experience. One choice excerpt:
It’s been less than two days since all of this has happened. We still have a lot to learn about who Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was and what made him into a human bomb. From what I know the story is...
Fewer People Were Murdered in New York This Year... →
Um… hooray!
“The future is stupid.”
– Jenny Holzer, in a NY Times interview
WatchJimmy and The Muppets Sing “12 Days of Christmas” with The Roots
I didn’t realize when I posted the original version of this earlier today that Jimmy Fallon had just redone this with the Muppets and The Roots! Too awesome.
Criterion Adds Thirty-Five Films to Stream via... →
Anyone with a Netflix account can now watch 35 Criterion Collection classics via the web or a set-top box like Roku, XBox, Tivo, or a connected Blu-Ray player. There’s less and less of an excuse for anyone (including me) not to be movie-literate. List includes The Seventh Seal, The Vanishing, Seven Samurai, Jules and Jim, My Life as a Dog, Rashomon, Wild Strawberries, and one of my...
Watchmemory bank: 2009 by Zadi Diaz.
A really beautiful piece from one of the people who first interested me in videoblogging, with videos like this one.
WatchBlackroc feat. Mos Def, Jim Jones and the Black Keys perform “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochi Coo)” on Letterman, 12/10/09.
Love this record.
Add cats to your pictures with CatPaint →
From their site: “CatPaint is the premier cat-based image editor for the iPhone and iPod Touch.”
via the Late Night blog.
Tweeteorites: The Long Tail of Humor →
A website that tracks the most favorited tweets of the past 24 hours, via buzzandersen:
I wanted to take a moment to mention my friend Andrew Wooster’s similar service, Tweeteorites. Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied with Birdfeed work to plug Tweeteorites when it was first released months ago, but it came out of an IM discussion Andrew and I had one day. We were talking about Twitter, and...
CNN: Scientists spot nearby 'super-Earth' →
So, wait a minute… an Earth-like planet 2.7 times bigger than ours (2.7 times our gravity), orbiting a red sun, 40 light years away? Sounds like Krypton to me. Super-Earth indeed!
The Top Twitter Trends of 2009 →
via laughingsquid.
“The Good Life” - Weezer
It’s...
Watchjustin:
It’s this year’s NNN holiday card! Last year we had fun with cookies, and the year before that, Holiday Sweaters. This year we’re featuring all our network stars, in a good 3D scrolling “matrix-y” style. Just check it out!
IKEA Lamp Light Sculptures →
via Lifehacker: Instructables user Daniel Saakes shows how to make big light sculptures based on platonic solids out of $4.99 Ikea Lampan lamps, zip-tied together and wired with a single cord. Cool.
8 Companies That Are Reinventing TV Online... →
nextnewblog:
Next New Networks was highlighted in this great industry roundup as a company making “bona fide TV networks on the web, delivering regularly scheduled programming just like NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS, or The CW do.”
Other leaders in the article included Hulu, Apple, Revision 3, Joss Whedon and Funny or Die; what great company to be in. We’re honored to have made the list—a lot more to...
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WatchJawbox reunited for the first time since 1997 on Jimmy Fallon last night—here’s the performance, and a couple more clips are available on the Jimmy Fallon website.
They rocked, hard. For a lot of us from the heyday of the DC music scene, this was a really fun thing to watch. Most of the time nowadays I’m more used to seeing Bill Barbot wrestling a laptop than an axe (he’s...
Gawker.tv: 30 Rock's Jack Donaghy Is TV's Most... →
A video montage of the character’s many sexist one-liners, one of the funniest, most painful parts of the epic satire of corporate culture Tina Fey’s been pulling off on 30 Rock. (via lindsayrobertson)