Now and Then photo series
Just for the taste of it
'Tis a little bit scary how well the Inception music matches up with the latest Coca-Cola ad. Bwaaaaaah!!
HBGM posts of the year
My five nominations for the best HBGM posts of 2010 are, in no particular order:
I'm Catman
Never gonna...
Kristianne Baille
OMG
Ghost Mutt Radio's Busy as a Bumblebee Mix
You guys should add to this post with your top 5. Also, I reckon this year there have been some pretty strong central themes in our posts. Hmm, yes. Themes. I'm thinking: remixes, Inception, cats and Natalie Portman*.
*Not really but I just wanted to type her name.
I'm Catman
Never gonna...
Kristianne Baille
OMG
Ghost Mutt Radio's Busy as a Bumblebee Mix
You guys should add to this post with your top 5. Also, I reckon this year there have been some pretty strong central themes in our posts. Hmm, yes. Themes. I'm thinking: remixes, Inception, cats and Natalie Portman*.
*Not really but I just wanted to type her name.
Photos of the year
The Big Picture has chosen its best photos of the year for 2010. Part one, part two, part three. So awesome.
THE BEST fan made trailer thingo eva
You have to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford first.
Emergency!
GRAMMAR HULK ON TWITTER SMASH!
GRAMMAR HULK: "HULK GET INVITATION THAT SAY 'PLEASE RSVP BY RESPONDING.' HULK'S RAGE MITIGATED BY OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR TINY PURPLE TUXEDO PANTS!"
This. Changes. Everything.
The best bit is the quote at the end: "It might feel awkward at first..."
Norwegian TV promo music video with 80s/90s stars
This is pretty amazing. That's good! It is also a train wreck. That's bad. Kelly McGillis is in it. That's good! It contains potassium benzoate...
Latest amazing Google product: beatboxing
Just go to this page on Google Translate and press "Listen".
The Future
Jonsi, the lead singer of Sigur Ros, released a solo album a little while ago. Then he went on tour. Now he has released a live album. So I bought that as a CD. The coolest thing is, when you buy the CD you also get to download all the tracks as MP3s and also videos of a Jonsi concert. It's like a 1 gig download. How cool is that? Very cool.
New Ghost Mutt logo
Spent a couple of grand on this, guys, so basically we're stuck with it. I asked the design company to make it 'faster, more intense' but they only had Photoshop 4.0.
GirlTalk mashup visualisation
A way to visualise in real-time the 372 songs sampled in Girl Talk’s recently released LP, All Day.
Drop the 'The'... Just 'Facebook'
Having just watched 'The Social Network' i just had to post something about them...
- 500 million active users
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- Worth $25Billion and we access and use for free.
AWESOME! Lets get a job with them!
- 500 million active users
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- Worth $25Billion and we access and use for free.
AWESOME! Lets get a job with them!
Food puns are yummy
Krispy Kreme has gone into voluntary administration in Oz and sub-editors love it:
D'ough! Krispy Kreme going bust - SMH
Short of dough - ABC
Sour taste - ninemsn
Unhealthy sales bite Krispy Kreme profits - news.com.au
Donut downturn for Krispy Kreme in Oz - BigPond News
Eric Stoltz is...Marty McFly
I know everyone knows about this, but I didn't realise they actually did shoot for 5 weeks with Eric and then re-shot all of that with MJF. Thank goodness.
PRESS RELEASE: Google acquires How Bout Ghost Mutt
1 October 2010, SYDNEY -- Google, Inc. today announced that it has acquired How Bout Ghost Mutt, the premier online destination for nerds, for $1.2 billion in cash.
The two companies will now be known as 'Googlemutt', with a new focus on increasing access to the world's important information about Inception parodies.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Ghost Mutt was a good fit for the search giant. "We've had our eye on them for some time now," he said, "ever since they posted that keyboard cat video."
Schmidt said Ghost Mutt's high volume traffic was also a large factor in seeking the acquisition. "They usually get two or three hits a day, sometimes even four, which is pretty amazing in this environment."
Ghost Mutt's founders were unavailable for comment because they were too busy spending the $1.2 billion on DVDs.
The two companies will now be known as 'Googlemutt', with a new focus on increasing access to the world's important information about Inception parodies.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Ghost Mutt was a good fit for the search giant. "We've had our eye on them for some time now," he said, "ever since they posted that keyboard cat video."
Schmidt said Ghost Mutt's high volume traffic was also a large factor in seeking the acquisition. "They usually get two or three hits a day, sometimes even four, which is pretty amazing in this environment."
Ghost Mutt's founders were unavailable for comment because they were too busy spending the $1.2 billion on DVDs.
Antoine f/u
"Dodson himself has since set up both a Website asking for people to donate to his family and a Twitter account with nearly 700 followers."
http://www.antoine-dodson.com/
http://www.antoine-dodson.com/
T2: The Opera!
"What is the point of a killing machine that can feel?
Go ahead Connor and lower me into the steel!"
Go ahead Connor and lower me into the steel!"
The Language of Fakebook
Article in NY Times about persona on Facebook compared to real life. I think it's right. Examples:
A 14-year-old I talked to about this sent me a message that pretty much sums it up: “I write more enthusiastically on Facebook than I actually am in real life. Like if I see something remotely funny I might say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA,’ when really there is no expression on my face.”
and
It should be said that adults are not necessarily less fictionalized, or more themselves, on Facebook; they are simply less natural, less conversant, less in their element, when they fictionalize. How many people do you know who are in the midst of some great existential or marital crisis, but whose Facebook page is all family photos from the south of France, or the Vineyard, or Bangkok, and charming things their children said?
A 14-year-old I talked to about this sent me a message that pretty much sums it up: “I write more enthusiastically on Facebook than I actually am in real life. Like if I see something remotely funny I might say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA,’ when really there is no expression on my face.”
and
It should be said that adults are not necessarily less fictionalized, or more themselves, on Facebook; they are simply less natural, less conversant, less in their element, when they fictionalize. How many people do you know who are in the midst of some great existential or marital crisis, but whose Facebook page is all family photos from the south of France, or the Vineyard, or Bangkok, and charming things their children said?
America passes law AGAINST sexting
Governor Quinn signs sexting legislation
http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?l=7EDX6A6
http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?l=7EDX6A6
If this is a consular ship, WHERE is the ambassador?
Do you guys remember when this car-carrying ship called the Tricolor sank in the English Channel with about 2000 luxury cars on board? Well, they removed the ship (and the cars) because other ships kept hitting it (oops). There's this great website that documents the salvage.
Basically, they put two cranes on either side of the ship and then used a cutting wire between them to slice the ship into 9 pieces. The pieces were lifted onto a barge and towed away!
All the cars ended up being scrapped. I just can't believe how awesome this is.
http://www.tricolorsalvage.com
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