Rock Surge’s Tribute to the Keytar is awesome! 🙂
A Tribute to the Keytar
Nazi Robot Attack
Nazi Robot Attack is a really cool CGI short film that could make for a really fun computer game…
I Want My Two Hours!
I will shamefully admit to watching American Idol, although I will also say that more recent shows have taxed my patience greatly. After reading stereogum’s summary of last night’s episode — American Idol, Give Back Our Two Hours — I’m quite glad that I didn’t watch it yesterday. The post does include some video clips of the few decent moments, though.
Oh, and please tell me that you got my Better Off Dead… reference… 😉
The 15 Most Outrageous Claims in Pop Music History
CRACKED.com presents The 15 Most Outrageous Claims in Pop Music History. Their site is chock full of other hilarious stuff, by the way…
UCSC Engineering Building Attacked by Giant Gorilla
Students at the University of California-Santa Cruz decorated the Engineering Building with a screen capture of Donkey Kong made out of about 6400 Post-It Notes. Too cool… 🙂
Real Estate Roller Coaster
The Google Video Real Estate Roller Coaster plots US Home prices from 1890-2006 adjusted for inflation on a roller coaster, which is then ridden in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Cool…
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Lee Iacocca goes off on political leaders, specifically W and his cohorts, in his new book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Urban Legends has an excellent excerpt.
What If the Beatles Were Irish?
Roy Zimmerman’s music video What If the Beatles Were Irish? is pretty funny…
The Eye of Argon
Jim Theis’ science fiction “novel” The Eye of Argon has to be read to be believed:
The Eye of Argon was published in 1970 in OSFAN, the journal of the Ozark SF Society, issue number 10. Photocopies – invariably with the last page missing – circulated for decades, and it became a regular sf convention challenge to read Jim Theis’s mangled prose with a straight face. This HTML document is based on the standard ASCII text of the story, widely available on line. In the January 2005 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction it was revealed that a complete copy of OSFAN #10 had been unearthed in the Jack Williamson SF Library at Eastern New Mexico University. Thanks to the collection administrator Gene Bundy, the missing half-page of text appeared at last in NYRSF #198, February 2005, and has been inserted below.
Jim Theis himself, who was 16 when “The Eye of Argon” first appeared, reportedly died circa 2001 at age 48. He will be long remembered in sf fandom.
MetaFilter points out an MST3Kd version as well :-).
High Speed Art: Bruce Lee
Phil Hansen’s “High Speed Art” series is pretty cool; check out Bruce Lee (IFILM video).
