This video shows an actress saying essentially the same sentence in 21 different accents:
- Via Boing Boing
This is a remarkably creepy montage of BBC news-anchors as they finish a broadcast. Their mikes are off, music is playing, and they’re looking blankly into the camera without saying anything. Add in some atmospheric music, and the result is pretty amazing. Check it out:
– Via Boing Boing
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This video caused the very definition of laughing out loud.
How cool is that? The photo is a bit blurry, but I think you get the basic idea of the kind of metalwork that went into this thing. Aaron wanted to sit in it, but I pointed out that the owner was probably a skilled master of the blowtorch and would not take kindly to [...]
I’ve just learned a fascinating bit of trivia about those ubiquitous iPod commercials… apparently one guy does a lot of the dancing, even if the figures don’t necessarily look like him. All of the tall, skinny dancers with a particularly rubbery dancing style are David Elsewhere, possibly with someone else’s head superimposed on his body.
ABC [...]
A couple of things. First, “here’s a gallery of photos from the trip”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/49649144@N00/.
As for my stories about the trip… soon, soon, I promise. I’m still recuperating from all of it. I’ve got a nice detailed travologue in my head coming to a blog near you very soon. In the meantime, “one of my lovely hosts [...]
fal·low (fÄl’Å)
adj.
1. Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season: fallow farmland.
*2. Characterized by inactivity: a fallow gold market.*
n.
1. Land left unseeded during a growing season.
2. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
3. The condition or period of being unseeded.
tr.v., -lowed, -low·ing, -lows.
1. To plow (land) without seeding it afterward.
2. To plow and [...]
Tonight I had the rather odd experience of going to HEB and hearing “Lost in the Supermarket” by The Clash over the in-store speakers. If you’re not familiar with the song, here’s a pertinent lyrical sample:
bq{font-style: italic;}.. I’m all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A [...]
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Aoccdrnig to rsareech at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not [...]
