Well the last post wasn’t that exciting, so here is one that Mike showed me last night. If you like Stripes at all, you should read these Mindhole Blowers: 20 Facts About Stripes That Might Make You Want to Sing “Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do”. Apparently it all started from trying to figure out the song that Murray sings when his girlfriend breaks up with him in the beginning, which is now my new favorite song:
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NYPL
The instragram for the New York City Library is a very good use of instagram. A review of a item is put up on Tuesdays (like the above) and on Mondays they put up a question they received from their reference desk because they “were google before there google existed.” Check out a collection the Gothamist put together of some good questions.
Via SwissMiss. Oh, and fuck New York, too.
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Essays
It is easy to get burned out on supercuts and get into video essays (as you can probably tell fi saw a timeline of posts here), but this video/documentary by Kevin B. Lee is commenting on how I should probably analyze the video essays a little more. I like the difference between this video praising women in Scorsese movies versus this video showing a quite different view.
Via Awesomer.
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Year End!
Based on some best-viral-videos-of-the-year videos and then watching the ones that I missed, here are links to some of them:
- Chris Pratt knows all of Forgot About Dre.
- This devil baby prank is pretty funny.
- When we were in Turkey, this ice-cream man, or someone just like him, was great.
- It’s been a while since a “List Show” was posted, so here is an interesting one about Christmas songs.
- Here is a video showing how people move through a city that is pretty cool.
- Want to see some of the special effects that went into The Wolf of Wall Street? The backing track is pretty good too.
- Wanna know who invented the internet?
- Here is a video about automation, computers and the small amount of jobs that will be available as a result. Or just get scared about this personal robot, like from Her.
- Check out 4d printing.
- Have you seen the Irish dad get angry about not passing his driving test?
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Still Can’t Get Enough Colbert?