Together we raised $20,000 for Haiti!

Cliff, you’re beautiful man!

Another Boxee Box vid

I'm in frame #7471

The Boxee Box

I’ve been tweeting my serious want for this for a few days now. Here’s a short video about it. The moment this is out I’m getting one of these for the bedroom TV.

Google on Uncrawled URLs in search results

Battlestar Rhapsody

Ricky Gervais Sings Elmo A Terrifying Lullaby

Muppets 12 Days of Christmas

Being in my late 30s I’m more partial to the original version with John Denver but this one with Jimmy Fallon in a worthy successor.

Nebraska is special

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At the end of Yonge St

I grew up in Rochester, NY. The joke is that Toronto is 70 miles away but it takes 3.5 hours to get there. (Look at a map if you don’t get it.) Whenever I did get up to Toronto one of my favorite streets to hang out on was Yonge St. Vimeo user Fixinmytie has posted this amazing stop-motion video of him and a friend traveling from one end of Yonge St to the other. The trip took 14 hours but this video takes just a little more than three minutes.

At the End of Yonge St from Fixinmytie on Vimeo.

Colbert: Corporations ready to take over Patriot Act

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Skateboarding Dog Gets Served!

The Beatles: A look back from the year 3000

A virus walks into a bar…

via Boing Boing

Librarians on Jimmy Kimmel Live

This is their site: Awful Library Books.

Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

Atom.com: Funny Videos | Atom Originals | Star Wars Gangsta Rap

I want to be Under the Dome

Stephen King’s new 1,000+ page epic comes out in just six days! (I picked free super-saver shipping so I’ll have to wait a little longer to get my copy.)

Learn how to print in the library (or the zombies may get you!)

via myliblog

Library 101

Be sure to check out all the related essays (one by me) and resources at http://www.libraryman.com/library101/

86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"

Via Boing Boing

The world’s deepest trash bin

Star Trek XI Gag Reel

New Doctor Who Logo Revealed

The Origin of Sesame Street

As a child of the 70s, I recently read Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and enjoyed it thoroughly. That experience only may this, the pitch film from 1969 all the more interesting.

How Terminator Should End

via Photo Basement

One, Two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Here’s the first trailer for Michael Bay’s reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD

Puppet Book Banners

What If Star Wars Was Made By Environmentalists?

Via Boing Boing

“The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.”

8-bit trip

JISC – Libraries of the Future

Via Connie Crosby

Wii Extreme Challenge

Social Media Revolution

Cory Doctorow interview on librarianship and media

The Guild: Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Google’s New Opt-Out Privacy Feature

Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

Colbert's Driving Tips Twitter Service

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Give me one red button and a joystick!

The Ballad of G.I. Joe

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Olbermann: Sarah Palin rhetoric putting nation at risk

Before watching the video please read Sarah Palin’s “Statement on the Current Health Care Debate” posted on Facebook, 7 August 2009.

 

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RIP John Hughes

Twitter Twacked

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Paul Krassner: "Who's to say what's obscene?"

Paul Krassner: Who's To Say What's Obscene? from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo.
Via Boing Boing

CNR

Nailed 'Em - Library Crime

As funnily presented as this story is, this is exactly why I get so steamed whenever I hear “but you don’t pay taxes to our library.”

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Foreign music day

For some reason lots music from other countries seems to be passing across my desktop today. Here’s two. One I immediately purchased from Amazon, the other, not. I’ll let you guess which is which.

1884 – Steampunk Animated

Via io9

Don’t take data across the border

Yet another good reason for keep your portable data in the cloud.

Bobby McFerrin is a frickin genius

Please forget everything you ever remember about Don’t Worry, Be Happy then watch these videos.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Improvises A Cappella, Song Two of Two from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Covers of 80s classics in Ragtime

Can you name them all?

Be Seeing You

World's Quickest Personality Test

Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history

Barack Obama Is the First Nerd President

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

What is a browser?

I view this as job security…

The Year the Media Died

via Photography is Not a Crime

Libraries featured on the Today show

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More from the White House on Cybersecurity

Tonight Show Twitter Tracker!

Twitter in the Classroom

First: a video about it’s use @ UT Dallas:

Second: A PPT titled “25 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom”

Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom

View more OpenOffice presentations from Michael Sauers.

Via ReadWriteWeb

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

From the American University, School of Communication, Center for Social Media:

You can get a PDF of the full report on the AUSOC site.

President Obama on Cybersecurity

Bonus: Bruce Schneier’s comments on the speech.

Using a 1964 modem to dial up to the Internet

In the late 80s I used a 300-baud acoustic modem connected to my Atari 800 to connect to BBSes. Ah, the memories. (Though I think it would have been cooler if he had actually used a rotary dial phone to make it true “dial up”.)

Via Boing Boing

Colbert, Green Day & Keyboard Cat

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First V trailer

First clips from the forthcoming V remake

I'm thinking I'm gonna like!

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics to Find Cause of Dorm Fire

(Contains some adult imagery but oh so possible true…)

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

Bill Moyers on Twitter

Obama Budget Cuts Visualization

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Could this be Windows 8?

Copenhagen User Experience from Copenhagen Concept on Vimeo.

Get Inspired in 7 minutes 30 seconds

I don’t usually go for posting the sappy stuff but this was amazing.

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009
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St Francis de la Sissies

Thanks Diane!

K-9 Trailer

Keep in mind these two important points: First, the voice of K-9 in this trailer is not the one that will be used in the final show. (Though don’t expect it to be John Leeson either.) Second, this is a show for kids. Enjoy!

This band doesn’t exist

They’re all individual, totally unrelated, YouTube videos that have been remixed into a complete whole. Be impressed, then read more over on Lessig.org.

Video Highlights from CIL2009

Jim Henson’s Resident Evil 5

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (1st trailer)

IL2009

Will you be there?

"Find Out at I L 2009" from Kaygraphic on Vimeo.

Imagining a Smithsonian Commons

I’m back from Computers in Libraries 2009 and I’ve got a lot to share. The first is Wednesday’s keynote talk from Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution. It was streamed live online (a first for CIL) and was recorded. Listen to him and then go read all the books he mentions in his talk. (I’ve read all but one of them and I’m on the list at LCL for it now.)

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He also put up a text version of his presentation in SlideShare. I've embedded it here for you.

CIL 2009 Michael Edson (text version)

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He also put up a text version of his presentation in SlideShare. I've embedded it here for you.

CIL 2009 Michael Edson (text version)

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I believe I’ve spent time in this airport

Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport

Twouble with Twitters

If the rest of the show is like this, it’s going to be a definite must-see.

Neil Gaiman on Colbert Report

Peter Orszag on Blogging

Jon Stewart Shakes His Fist At Twitter

Final Edition

I don’t subscribe to a newspaper any more but the last one I did, and actually enjoyed was the Rocky Mountain News. This past Friday, after 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky published it’s final edition.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

via The Onion

Doctor Who theme on Tesla Coils

This kicks butt!

Two Beatles related videos

Garble Arch (A Day in the Life of Abbey Road)

Shea Stadium Demolition 2/18/09

Obama’s Elf

Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion

NASA formed a committee to look at how things were done in their organization. Instead of writing a report no one would read, they created a video and posted it on YouTube. I can say that MPOW has its moments but it’s not this bad. Watch this video and ask yourself, have I ever been told, or worse, said any of these phrases?

Torchwood: Children of Earth

Who’s afraid of buttons?

ze frank in The Remnants

The Remnants from John August on Vimeo.

Amazing online film archive

The National Film Board of Canada has a “new online Screening Room. Here you can watch full-length films, clips and trailers - all free for home viewing.” The site currently contains hundreds of videos from the past 90 years from animated shorts to full-length documentaries. Videos are available in low, medium, and high quality, shareable to several different online social networks and are embeddable. Here’s Between the Laughter, a “This feature-length documentary looks at Stephen O'Keefe, a deaf, stand-up comedian. Faced with the usual challenges that life presents.”

Gorilla Librarian

Word clouds in motion

A video of Nina Simone’s Feeling Good reminded me a a few other of my favorite videos of this type all embedded below. (The third one contains some adult language.) I like to think of these as word clouds in motion; the use of motion in combination with typography to visualize something aural. Enjoy!

Feeling Good, Nina Simone
by mrfnk

With a little additional searching I found that this animation style is actually called kenetic typography and there are plenty more examples on YouTube. That works too ;-)

Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government

This video was released back on January 16th, but I just watched it last night. There’s nothin’ like someone in government talking about mashups!

Barack O’Bama

Wazzup 2000 vs. Wazzup 2008