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The BBC Rules, YouTube can suck it!

Joisey Mike — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:40:13 +0000

I’m not a man who’s easily impressed. Well, I am a man who is easily impressed, but not “Wow! A blue car!” easily impressed. But today, the secondteenth day of the fourth month of the 1,208th year since the Europeans decided to start a calendar 800 years in the past (makes sense; think about it), the British have impressed me.

Flip on any video on YouTube. Turn up the volume. Note that YouTube’s volume slider isn’t numeric.

The BBC’s is. And their amps go to eleven. Check out Robin Williams taking over a BBC America chat show when they were having technical difficulties, and turn the volume up. To eleven. Sweet sweet eleven.

Applying Pascal’s Wager to Global Warming

Joisey Mike — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:42:08 +0000

Stright out of the “Dam, I wish I’m the one who thought of that” files, comes a science teacher who takes a look at the global warming argument (not global worming itself) as a simplified cost-benefit argument the same way as noted scientician Pascal made his argument for the benefit of belief in god — the benefits of believing greatly outweigh the benefits of not believing.

Roll that beautiful bean footage:

The only issue I have with this, as I post, think about it, and then edit, is that this assumes that if Global Warming is real, it’s something we can fix. That’s a little too much dewy-eyed optimism for me, since there’s favorable data that we can make things better, but not stop them. We can make it our grand kids’ problem though, and since they’ll be in the future they might have better ideas. Or they can stave it off until their grandkids’ robot overlords protectors fix it.

Dude, you’re getting porno

Joisey Mike — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:30:44 +0000

Honestly, this is the exact testimonial I’d be giving if I’d ever owned a Dell. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Since it’s come up 3 times before 9:30 this morning, I figure I’d mention that Ben Curtis — more widely known as Steve, the “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy — was earthed up as a waiter in New York. So if you don’t know yet, read up. If you already know, now you know I know and you don’t need to tell me about it. I’m glad we took care of that. Vote Quimby.

Cooking with Walken

Joisey Mike — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:34:54 +0000

Austrailian comedians FTW.

And since you watched, here’s a Walken halloween mask: http://www.brandonbird.com/halloween_treat.html

Boo.

DMB? More like SMB!

Joisey Mike — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:59:50 +0000

Guitar…

Bass…

And just about everything else…

OMGOOSES!

Joisey Mike — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:07:53 +0000

Thank you Don for telling me about this. Now I need to find a way to get the coffee off my monitor.

L2XProductions FTW.

Irrational Exhuberance

Joisey Mike — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:53:08 +0000

It’s been 6 long years since the first time I’ve seen this, and I still think it’s funny as shit. Honestly, sometimes this is the only thing that cheers me up.

*edit*

I was wondering why Colin Mochrie shows up on this (his face is on the record during the scratching), and other weird “I made a flash movie and put a japanese pop song int he background” sort of things.

From Wikipedia:

The image of Mochrie’s face is used extensively in Animutation, a style of Flash animation. Neil Cicierega, the father of Animutation, would place Colin in almost every Animutation he made, making the inclusion of him in Animutation somewhat of a running gag. Mochrie is aware of his status among Animutation artists and fans, having been quoted, “It’s pretty cool, but you’ve got to admit, it’s pretty weird.”

Knife Collector’s Show gone horrbly wrong

Joisey Mike — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:37:21 +0000

I was talking about this during the Girly Drinks Party Mike and I hosted on Saturday. Thanks again for coming out every one — now enjoy the Knife Collector’s Show gone horribly wrong.