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Things That Go Backwards Are Funny

Ok, I will admit it...this is clever. Tragedy en reverso.

Via Boing Boing

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User Generated Religion a.k.a kids can't act and clowns are scary

As first seen on Eyebeam, then pushed to WFMU, we again see how people like to use social media to express their feelings about religion. I mean, whodathunk there was a godtube? but I gotta say, you ain't converting anyone with the seemingly stoned kids version of Narnia scenes, get thee to the Strassberg Technique!

This may be the most disturbing video ever.

The Next Coolest Thing I Have No Need For

Ok, so this is a concept piece, but it is only a matter of time. Why is it that artists and engineers and people who just think alot come up with stuff that is simply much better than those at Realistic or whatever RadioShack's latest sub-brand is.

Can someone please make me one?

The Gun Operated Alarm Clock

Blog from your cell phone?

You're out at the club and you see Paris Hilton making out with Lindsey Lohan while Britney removes both of the lady's underpants as The Olsen Twins scarf down 8 twinkies in 12 seconds. Now that's a story that needs to be blogged and told to the world ASAP! You pull out your cell phone and blog it immediately. The world can now share in your daily horrors adventures. Well kids, some of the people in Silicon Valley seem to be thinking that the site www.twitter.com is the next big thing after the whole YouTube phenomenon. A new mini-blogging service for mobile phones.

Twitter's mission statement is simple:
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!

So basically, we now have a site to read what the random ordinary joe is up to in their daily random ordinary lives. Here are few texts i'm sure you will find on this site.
- Hey everybody, I just went to the supermarket and fell on a banana peel! LOL, ROTFLOL. Al from Vegas.
- YO YO YO. Me and the boyz just hit the club hard. Time to recharge. Gettin chicks is hard but not for me yo! HardHitta, Strong Island.
- Dear world, I just stopped a guidette chick from using her hairspray. This was my daily deed for the environment. If each and every one of us stops a guidette from using hairspray, then maybe our icecaps will not melt at such an alarming rate. Love to the world, Naturegirl27, Florida.

The Masses Break The Story

For all fans of Citizen Journalism, this is a good segment from NPR's on the media. It talks about how the web community was reacting and on top of the Washington attorney scandal
way before the traditional media got involved.

LINK: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/23/03

The Devil Is A "Muthaf***in" Liar!

Wow, ok, we guess we were wrong. Preacherman Gangsta.

NSFW

Save The Lightbulb, Save The World

The power of a committed teen can be a scary thing. They are social creatures and can influence others to help them in their conniving ways. If the teen's dad was an award winning tv producer
and his mom happened to have run everything from NFL properties to MTV, yeah, he's got some juice.
Regardless, Ad Age, in a slightly self serving piece by JWT CEO Bob Jeffrey, discusses Avery Hairston and his desire to have one CFL lightbulb replace a single incandescent bulb in every apartment in America.

As written on his site, relightNY:

If every home in the U.S. replaced one lightbulb with a CFL, we would save enough energy to light 2.5 million homes a year and prevent the greenhouse gas equivalent of 800,000 cars.

I guess it is the age of the consumer, and we should recognize what happens when consumers get motivated, then can create change (even if that consumer has a pedigree that 99% of the world has no chance in attaining).

LINK: AD AGE ARTICLE (Subscription Required)

Make Your Own Museum Art

Want to see your creation framed at the museum?
You can now do so at The Museu de Arte de São Paulo, or MASP.

Ok, so the art will be displayed in the loo, but that is better than nothing!

LINK: ADVERBOX - MASP MUSEUM

Videodrome Redux

In the 1983 classic Videodrome, the story unfolds of a world where determining what is real and what exists in the virtual world gets blurred. Experience unfolds on both planes and the unwitting James Woods must figure it out. Actors in TV and commercials are made out of pixels and the real world becomes a less desirable place to exist. Fast forward 24 years and I give you movies that anyone can make and edit in a small program called Second Life.

And, a little bit from the original... (if ya aint seen it, rent it)

the internets are gonna be big

So, you know that really cool movie, 300, that you saw that really cool trailer for on the web?  Remember you sent your friend that trailer and then a DIFFERENT friend send you a link to some more really cool footage?  And remember that blog you read about it, so you went and checked out the official website and looked for clips on YouTube?

Well it turns out that all that internet hype was for real. 

The article goes on to mention that its sort of the opposite of the overstated "snakes on a plane" where the hype was the hype.  Apparently, this is the first movie where more people were influenced by what they saw/read on the web than they were by the big box in their living room.

It seems to me that 300's marketing didnt focus on the internets any more than than most movies of similar ilk but this just may be a milestone that marks a bigger change in how the studios market their movies.  (Snakes on a Plane was supposed to be that milestone.)

It wont be long before studios are holding contests to spoof movies that they havent even released yet.  Oh, and theres this...