Month: August 2008

You should definitely check out the short film The Archive at Vimeo:

Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.

This is the story of a man and his records. I hope you enjoy it.

As MetaFilter points out, “He’s ready to sell the whole thing for 6 cents on the dollar of their worth. 3 million records for $1 each. And nobody is buying.”

I can’t believe that no one has expressed any interest in such an amazing collection! You’d think Paul Allen (founder of the Experience Music Project, a museum of music history in Seattle), the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, or even the Library Of Congress would jump at this opportunity. What a tragedy; I hope that someone worthy gives the collection a home…

Entertainment Weekly speculates that some new YouTube videos that have recently surfaced could be the beginning of a Muppets comeback. Whether or not that’s true, the four YouTube channels they unearthed contain some great videos. My favorite is The Swedish Chef’s Channel, which currently contains a hilarious duet of the Habanera aria from Carmen with Beaker, seen above. The other channels are from Sam The Eagle, Beaker, and The Great Gonzo.

2008 US Movie Box Office depicts box office receipts in a very cool way…

The YouTube rap music video Large Hadron Rap is about the soon-to-be activated Large Hadron Collider. It’s not nearly as bad as I expected it to be… 😉

DFL is “Celebrating last-place finishes at the Olympics. Because they’re there, and you’re not.” Bravo…

Too funny…

The Onion’s story Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet is hilarious… 🙂

delicious blog reveals the new design for delicious.com (note the new domain name, originally del.icio.us). It looks pretty slick, and thankfully all of my old links redirect properly. Check out what’s new, and if you are a Firefox user, the Firefox plugin (quick tour here) is indispensable.

PC Magazine and Slashdot report on the recent crackdown by some ISPs on Usenet:

…major providers are dropping the full alt. hierarchy, and even Usenet entirely, as part of a New York State government crusade against child pornographers who’ve been using the alt.binaries groups to distribute their wares.

I support their aim, but as one article put it, “Dropping all of Usenet to lose alt.binaries.videos.of.criminal.acts is definitely throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” I personally subscribe to Giganews directly for Usenet access rather than relying on access through Comcast, but others may unfortunately not be so lucky. I don’t know if this really is the end of Usenet, but it certainly seems like a sad development…

I’m not sure that I necessarily agree with the rankings in the YouTube video Top 20 Retro Games, but the manner in which they present the games is pretty cool…