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 "Hmm. Hotel phone has a 'fluffer' button that if pressed results in female moaning noises and declarations that I/we are the greatest. Eek." Tom Coates on Twitter Mark at Kaci's wedding. [YouTube] If you like breaks, and who doesn't, join the BREAKS group on Virb and share what you like. Michael Showalter and Paul Rudd recreate the bootleg argument from I Heart Huckabees. [CollegeHumor] "Overheard wisdom of NYC streets: 'Wikipedia isn't always correct'." Jason Kottke on Twitter The I Heart Huckabees moment. [YouTube] "watching http://tinyurl.com/2bqw5o" Preston on Twitter The Michael Showalter Showalter with David Cross. [CollegeHumor] "Seems like with bananas, you basically have a three-minute window between green and brown. Bananas are always 'becoming.'" Merlin on Twitter Larry Willmore from The Daily Show on Disney's Frog Princess. [iFilm]  I've been on a social network type rampage this week. Virb is a wonderful, beautiful alternative to MySpace that does everything the megalith does and more. Check out Royal Sapien, Olaris Records, and my personal Ben Mautner Virb. Labels: Virb  It troubles me that Gmail has been down for most of the afternoon for lots of users. Apparently Google Reader is down as well. Could it be an attack or did 150,000 servers suddenly explode? I swear to god, if they lose my email... UPDATE: I guess everything is fine. Still though, I don't know what could have caused an outage like that. Labels: Gmail  San Francisco was very sunny. I'm on Twitter now, and it's quite fun. But it would be more fun if you were my friend. I updated fairly frequently from my phone in SF. RoyalSapien Sprint has a new phone from Samsung that lets you buy 99 cent songs over the air. Like Royal Sapien and other fine artists. Netflix gives employees unlimited vacation time, trusting their staff to get the work done responsibly. [via kottke] Will Apple 10.5 feature new 3d rendering capabilities to make the interface as smooth as the iPhone?  This is the reason cable news is essentially worthless. Watch the entire first episode of This American Life's Showtime television show online for free if you live in the United States. TAL also has a brand new web site redesign, replacing their previous late-90's style. Hilarious NYC comic Aziz Ansari in The Illusionators from his new show on MTV. You didn't hear about this wonderful music blog from me. Algo makes some great mashup mixes and has posted them to his site, Algorhythms. [thanks Allyson] Eddie Izzard on techno fear. [YouTube] One of the reasons people don't like the MPAA is their use of military tactics to control movie theater visitors. Desktopography has some truly stunning imagery to freely use as your wallpaper. What would happen if Super Monkey Ball took over your life? A very funny video. Unfortunately, the lifetime warranty on Craftsman tools doesn't apply to Katrina victims. From SNL this week, Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse presents Maraka. [YouTube] [thanks Allyson]  If you're an unpopular, imperialist ruler, you would be wise to watch your back today. For the rest of us, happy Ides of March! Yesterday was Pi Day, 3/14. Ryan North drew the best comic I saw celebrating the holy significance. [thanks, Alexis] Check out free audio podcasts and videos from SXSW. Ben Stein wrote a great essay published in the American Spectator on the state of the American economy. "Starting MBA's at hedge funds, which are basically gaming enterprises, get paid multi-six figure sums. Starting teachers in the state of Florida get paid $28,000 a year." New film Paprika looks breathtaking. Animation at its finest. [thanks, Maria] The new Slacker service and device combines satellite radio, streaming radio, and music storage. If their channel line-up can rival XM/Sirius, they have a very promising product. I had no idea Garrison Keillor was such an ignorant fuck. Unless this is satire? "Back in the day... everyone had a yard, a garage, a female mom, a male dad, and a refrigerator with leftover boiled potatoes in plastic dishes with snap-on lids." Photos of people parking like assholes. If you see something, say something. [via BB] A Gary Baseman painting show opens today and runs through May 5 at Modernism in San Francisco. The opening reception is tonight from 5:30-8:00. BoingBoing posted some exclusive preview photos from his studio. Friday, March 30, at Club Exit in Greenpoint, Brooklyn sees Westbam, Hardy Hard, and Joey Beltram for $15 with live visuals. See you there. Two new releases on Olaris Records (my record label) are out today! Ryan Crane's "Stone Built" with a couple remixes from Royal Sapien (that's me) drops some techy, trancey waves into your earholes. Remixes of Royal Sapien's "Where's The Bar?" off Strip Poker Slot Machine are also out on pre-release today with a tech house version from Chris Fortier, a progressive rework Ryan Crane, and a drum'n'bass remix and an electro house remix from me. Pick them up at Beatport! Preview the full songs below from Last.fm.  Ronald and Nancy Reagan mashup from before the digital editing era. [YouTube] [via BB] Tyra Banks goes Oprah. Old but still good. [YouTube] Radiohead sings Creep in 1994. [YouTube] [via kottke] Mike Tyson is hilarious. Or would be if he were a cartoon. [YouTube] Jim Rome vs. Jeff Everett. [YouTube] Daft Punk was better in 1996 when they made their own songs. [YouTube] [thanks Ryan and Mike]  Photos of people sleeping over the course of a night. [via kottke] BT's had his gear stolen. Again. He has issued a reward of $20,000 for the stolen equipment. The report in Ad Age that suggested the (RED) campaign is a failure appears to be far from the truth. After staring at this animation, you will see everything bend. Amazing. [via digg] Scientists say that nerves communicate using sound, not electricity. Why? Electricity makes things heat up when it travels, and nerve signals don't. You Don't Know Jack is now in full swing on their web site. Reverend Ted Haggard's massage table is being sold on eBay to benefit AIDS charities. The Economist has hired a team of consultants from all around the world to figure out how best to use its resources in a volatile mediascape. Project Red Stripe is soliciting ideas online. Richard Jeni fatally shot himself. We are our parasites and they make us people. "U.S. Geological Survey biologist Kevin Lafferty has linked high rates of toxoplasmosis infection in 39 countries with elevated incidences of neuroticism, suggesting the mind-altering organism may be affecting the cultures of nations." TaxGeek is open source tax software, which means it's free! I'll stick with TurboTax online so I have someone to blame if something goes wrong. Mayan priests will be called in to purify sacred grounds after George Bush visits next week. [thanks, Steven] I, also, do not understand why mobile phone companies make their phones frustrating, even rage-inducing, to use. Michael Showalter with Michael Ian Black on the Michael Showalter Showalter. [College Humor]  A couple people have asked me recently to recommend movies for them to rent (both new Netflix subscribers), so here are a few films that I've rated "five-stars." 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Airplane! (1980) All the President's Men (1976) American History X (1998) Angels in America (2-Disc Series) (2003) Animaniacs: Vol. 1 (5-Disc Series) (1993) The Aristocrats (2005) Band of Brothers (6-Disc Series) (2001) Barton Fink (1991) BASEketball (1998) Basquiat (1996) The Ben Stiller Show (2-Disc Series) (1992) The Blue Planet: Open Oceans/The Deep (2001) Bob Roberts (1994) Brokeback Mountain (2005) But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Carnivale: Season 1 (6-Disc Series) (2003) The City of Lost Children (1995) Comedian (2002) Control Room (2004) The Critic: The Complete Series (3-Disc Series) (1994) Dark Days (2000) David Cross: Let America Laugh (2003) Don't Be a Menace to South Central … (1996) Ed Wood (1994) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) An Evening With Kevin Smith (2-Disc Series) (2002) Far from Heaven (2002) The Fog of War (2003) Freaks & Geeks: The Complete Series (6-Disc Series) (2000) Frida (2002) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Get Real (1999) Happiness (1998) The House of Yes (1997)I.M. Pei (1997) John Waters: This Filthy World (2006) Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) Midnight Cowboy (1969) A Mighty Wind (2003) Mission Hill: The Complete Series (2-Disc Series) (1999) New York (8-Disc Series) (1999) PCU (1994) Pollock (2000) The Professional (1994) Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)Raw (1987) Rivers and Tides (2003) Road to Perdition (2002) Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) Scratch (2002) Serial Mom (1995) Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek (2005) The Squid and the Whale (2005) Stella: Season 1 (2-Disc Series) (2005) Super Troopers (2002) Swimming Pool (2003) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) To Die For (1995) Undeclared: The Complete Series (4-Disc Series) (2001) Wayne's World (1992) The Weather Underground (2002) Wet Hot American Summer (2001)Wilde (1997) The Yes Men (2004) Zach Galifianakis: Live (2006) More urgent than climate change. More important than the "war on terror." More solvable than any other emergency facing the world while simultaneously contributing to every global disease. Poverty and AIDS can be eliminated from Africa and the rest of the world. Find easy ways to spread the word and how to get involved at One.org.  A beautiful window display for Anthropologie in the Rockefeller Center Concourse in NYC. Dozens of baggies suspended with growing seedlings. Previous displays have included snow drifts of bubble wrap and pools of styropeanuts. [Full resolution at Flickr] My new heroes at MIT created a nacho cheese fountain. [via Engadget] Confessions of a former Verizon Wireless rep. "If you walked in and wanted a $39 plan and a free Treo 700, not gonna happen. But I have given away almost every non-PDA phone in the store for the right deal. Also tell them you will buy the accessories, and text package. Trust me here, these are 2 of the biggest metrics for the reps. Return the accessories the next day and call customer care to cancel your text package." Being tall has its advantages, but occasionally it's not that cool. "Airplane seats. I literally can’t stretch my knees out." [via Sixfoot6] Debbie Millman has a great show (and podcast) called Design Matters. Previous guests include Stefan Sagmeister, Art Chantry, Milton Glaser, Michael Bierut, Paula Scher... How to design and make automata. Photos of bridges being built in NYC. [via digg] xkcd posted an e-mail he received on velociraptor safety. Local news coverage of Emo. [YouTube]  Links will be posted soon. A speed painting of Thom Yorke of Radiohead that shows the intense revision and revisitation great artwork requires. [YouTube] The gun rack scene from one of the best films of our era, Wayne's World. [YouTube] Clip of the amazing secret spy octopus. Check out Blue Planet from the BBC. [YouTube] A new BMW spot features an UNKLE rework of Beethoven. [YouTube] [Thanks, Mike] UPDATE Appreciate the visual artistry in this high-quality Quicktime. [Thanks, Preston] A 50-minute interview of Larry David by Ricky Gervais. Not to be missed. [DailyMotion] Labels: videos |
 
  
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