Month: November 2006

I’m sure that most of you have heard of the allegedly synchronicity between Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon and the movie The Wizard of Oz. If not, the Wikipedia entry Dark Side of the Rainbow explains a bit further.

Someone has taken the trouble to create The Wizard of Floyd, a Google Video of the entire movie with a Pink Floyd soundtrack. You should probably have The “Definitive List” of synchronous instances handy to see the allegedly significant moments, if you’re up to the challenge…

Check out this hilarious video filmed at a Tenacious D concert in New Zealand in which Andy Serkis, in Gollum/Smeagol character, joins the D in a rendition of Grease’s You’re The One That I Want. Hilarious…

The AtomFilms video Animator vs. Animation II is sequel to Animator vs. Animation, in which an animator’s creation battles him in the Flash software interface.

Cinematical has some news on the theatrical adaptation of Mötley Crüe’s bestselling book (!) The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band: Val Kilmer is allegedly playing David Lee Roth and Christopher Walken is supposedly playing Ozzy Osbourne. Now that’s some inspired casting! 🙂

To coincide with the release of the newest James Bond movie, Casino Royale, Cinematical has posted YouTube videos of the movie trailers to every James Bond movie.

Craig Ferguson of The Late Late Show has fond memories of Rumsfeld in this YouTube video…

Armed Forces Journal has an interesting article entitled Blood Borders exploring the notion that the current international borders are at least partly to blame for the ethnic and religious strife in the Middle East:

While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone — from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism — the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region’s comprehensive failure isn’t Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats.

It’s an interesting article, but the most interesting (and controversial) part is their proposed new map of the Middle East…

This YouTube video of a Bank of America executive (badly) singing U2’s One is making the Interweb rounds.

Cinematical reports that The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a TV series follow-on to the Terminator movies, will star Lena Headey as Sarah Connor. Although I thought Headey did a decent job in The Brothers Grimm, she is definitely no Linda Hamilton. As for the show, I have no idea what to think yet, but something tells me it will suck…

Now that I’ve finally gone through all of our Scotland vacation pictures, I’ve finished posting to my DrikoLand Gallery as well as to my flickr photo set. I came upon a very cool application called PictoBrowser that allows you to embed Flash slideshows of Flickr photosets in a slideshow, which you can see above. Enjoy!

Update: I also wanted to mention that the flickr map for the Scotland photo set gives you a neat way to see where we visited in Scotland and which areas we considered the most photogenic. However, I should point that some of the “blank” spots are because of bad weather, although thankfully we were lucky enough to only have a couple of days of really bad rain.