Together we raised $20,000 for Haiti!

Cliff, you’re beautiful man!

Another Boxee Box vid

Google on Uncrawled URLs in search results

Battlestar Rhapsody

Ricky Gervais Sings Elmo A Terrifying Lullaby

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.

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.

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

Give me one red button and a joystick!

RIP John Hughes

CNR

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.

Covers of 80s classics in Ragtime

Can you name them all?

Be Seeing You

World's Quickest Personality Test

What is a browser?

I view this as job security…

The Year the Media Died

via Photography is Not a Crime

More from the White House on Cybersecurity

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

President Obama on Cybersecurity

Bonus: Bruce Schneier’s comments on the speech.

First V trailer

Bill Moyers on Twitter

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.

Jim Henson’s Resident Evil 5

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

Embedding YouTube Videos into PowerPoint 2007

These instructions were originally posted on Clay’s Blog. I’ve modified them a little and added screenshots.

1. First turn on the Developer Tab on the Ribbon by clicking on the Microsoft logo at the top left of the window and selecting PowerPoint Options all the way at the bottom of the menu. Next put a check next to the unchecked item to show the Developer Tab
    
   
2. Go to YouTube and select a video to embed
3. Copy the URL
   
   
4. Open Notepad and paste the URL
   
   
5. In the URL delete "watch?" and change the = sign to a ⁄
6. Copy the new URL
   
   
7. Back in PowerPoint, on the Developer menu choose "More Controls"
   
   
8. Select Shockwave Flash Object
   
   
9. Click and drag on the PowerPoint slide to draw a box in which the video will appear
   
   
10. Right Click the box and select properties
    
    
11. Paste the URL into the Movie Property field
    
    
12. Adjust the options for Looping or AutoPlay if desired
13. Close the Properties window
14. You can now adjust the size of the video by dragging the corners as needed

Your YouTube video will now play directly in your presentation provided you are connected to the Internet.

Peter Orszag on Blogging

Jon Stewart Shakes His Fist At Twitter

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

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

The 3 Rules of the Internet

Contains mild adult language. Via BoingBoing.

A few days late but still worth it

Library Slow Jam

Brian Williams FTW!

Thanks cogscilibrarian

Jacasta Nu: Worst librarian in the Galaxy

Posting those Doctor Who clips the other day reminded me of this...

Star Wars: The Old Republic game trailer

This game might just get me to play a MMORPG...

How the Obama campaign logo was designed

We're in the process of rebranding some of the output of the NLC (for launch in the new year) and today we're deciding on the new logo. So, these videos were not only interesting but relevant to what we're going through right now.

Part 1:

Part 2:

My two favorite scenes from the current Doctor Who series

Unfortunately, the sound is off on the second one. I'll have to fix that...

Photograph of Jesus

Star Wars as a silent film

Neil Gaiman on a magical and wonderful thing

The Simpsons take on Apple

Are you ready for digital TV?

Jack Imel plays "Pagan Love Song" on Lawrence Welk 1958

Via BoingBoing

Coraline trailer

Brand New Day

Not all the lyrics are perfect but I can't get this song out of my head this fine morning.

Kal Penn on the Power of the Youth Vote

An interesting comment on young voters and online services such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook.

Blueprint for Change: Technology

• Provide universal broadband access
• Raise broadband speed standards
• Connect schools, libraries and hospitals.”

Ferris says…

Palin Punk'd by Fake French President Sarkozy

Piracy: D.O.I.T.

An interesting commute

Wouldn't have posted this except for the scene in the library.

Dance off!

Robots Attack!

Barney Fife & the Constitution

How many of you start singing the Schoolhouse Rock version after about 30 seconds?

If you've not sent your fan mail to Ringo already, it's too late

Obama campaign goes viral

Actually, in this case they used a video that previously went viral online and adapted it to their needs. I’ve got to say, it’s but amusing and creative.

Head over Heels : Literal Video Version

The Read Menace

There's a Floppy Disk on the Floor

23 Things @ SAPL

Nebraska's 23 Things program starts Monday. I wish we were talented enough to put a promo like this together:

Maybe in Ohio, but not in America!

Don’t Vote!

The "Defending Marriage" Song, By Roy Zimmerman

What are you doing here?

The Internet Overdose Song

Economics and Annoying Smart Guys

So *that's* what Toy Story was about!

BARACKY II