A guy named Derek Waters has a web series called "Drunk History", which is pretty much what you'd expect.  In this episode, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover (who doesn't age... Seriously, the guy must have a hideous painting of himself stashed somewhere) and a adorable, and really drunk guy dramatize the conflict between Nicola Tesla and Thomas ( Read more... )

Saw this for the first time on St. Patrick's Day 2008...

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In other news, the roaming mountain lion has been caught, and is currently sleeping off the tranquilizer dart.

God help me, I love this kid.  She's basically Klaus Nomi's long lost kid sister; I have always been fascinated by artist's who charge into doing full-on balls out spectacle, and unlike Marilyn Manson, she seems to be more positive and adventurous.

Below is her latest video for "Telephone" which has gotten mixed reviews, but already got one outraged ( Read more... )

First off, if the Screen Gems logo wigged you out as a kid (it is a little before my time) you might want to avoid this post.

Saw this on Boing Boing.  It is a short documentary on the the 1964 Screen Gems logo, and the inadvertent dread it evoked in countless TV-watching kids growing up in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.    While kids in the UK ( Read more... )

Today we learn what a sizzle reel is ( Read more... )

It's been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall fell.  Without nuclear war happening first.  This was one of my happy "where were you when" moments, the other being happily drunk in my living room as Barack Obama getting elected.

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I was born in 1975, so I was aware of goings on in the tail end of the Cold War, namely the Soviet invasion of ( Read more... )

Folks often wondered if TDS would still have material once Bush the Younger left office.  But the chain reaction of wingnuttery that the Obama administration has inspired (Dow reaching 10,000 points?  Sensible people in office? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!?!?!) has filled the void quite nicely.

Glenn Beck has been laid up with appendicitis, but ( Read more... )

But seriously, the following video is a design concept by Stefan Ulrich, called Funktionide. As his thesis design project, Ulrich discussed how humans interact with objects, and the threshold at which we begin to regard such objects as "alive"; i.e. motion, response to our interactions and outside stimuli in general, and said object's imitation of ( Read more... )

Got this one off of my cousin J's Facebook.  He works as a stage electrician in Pittsburgh, and saw this video made by the electricians of the Santa Fe Opera.  Who apparently spend their days rockin' out to the strains of Lady Gaga...

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So, while watching the endless swine flu updates on Saturday puffing away on the exercise bike, news broke that Bea Arthur had passed away.  I gasped out loud.

Maybe I'm bummed because she played characters that remind me a lot of Aunt V.  I swear, Aunt V is the real life Maude... If Maude were a Lutheran minister stuck out on the plains of North ( Read more... )