Archive for the 'Video' Category

Watch this video: Internet Superstar

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Not content to just Web Drift the highways and byways of the internet, Martin Sargent has finally launched his new show on Revision3. Internet Superstar, a cross between Sargent’s two previous shows, Infected and Unscrewed, follows a dejected Martin Sargent on his quest to understand how one becomes an internet mega-sensation. In this episode Sargent […]

Start to love Mondays: Lasagna Cat is here.

Monday, January 14th, 2008

There is little predication I can give for the people behind Fatal Farm, the makers of excellent alternative openings for classic television shows. So I won’t. Familiarize yourself with the alternative Duck Tales intro and you’ll have some idea of what to expect from this team.
Done familiarizing yourself? Good.
Fatal Farm has raised the bar of […]

Taste the Meta: McDonald’s uses American iconography in France

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

McDonald’s, the master of capitalism and changing to fit local nuance, is taking a surprising route in marketing it’s new “Big Tasty” in France. Not content to use the French commercial standard of “mime eats an imaginary sandwich, cries, stares unblinking at camera for 2 minutes straight, then is shot by a masked man with […]

James Randi to discontinue his million dollar challenge

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

James Randi, magician and respected skeptic, is hanging up the reigns: in two years, on its 12th anniversary, James Randi will officially end his million dollar challenge. For those unfamiliar, the million dollar challenge started back in 1964, when James Randi put up $1,000 of his own money to anyone who could prove the existence […]

Huckabee must be President.

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Why should former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee be elected President of these United States? Is it because he doesn’t believe in evolution? Is it that he thinks Jesus would believe in the death penalty? Is it that he wants to isolate all people carrying the AIDS virus? Is it that he thinks homosexuality is […]

105 years ago today: Edison westinghoused an elephant.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Quickly, do you know who created the phonograph? The carbon filament found in incandescent light bulbs? The stock-ticker? How about movie production as we currently know it? Now, do you know who electrocuted an elephant as a marketing gimmick to slander the name of alternating current?
The answer to those question is one name: Thomas Edison. […]