Nothing makes me laugh quite like a good face plant. What I particularly like about this specific type of mishap is that the person who suffers it was showing off in some stupid way before hand, so you don’t even have to feel sorry for them.
Spore is going to be a great game when the release it. You will be able to develop a life form from a single celled organism to a space faring civilisation. As a little preview of this, you they have release their creature creator software for you to play with. People from B3TA have got old of it, guess what sort of creates they have created:
Robot Chicken.It’s a stop motion animation comedy clip shop, vaguely reminiscent of what Adam and Joe used to do. Most of their stuff is based on stuff from the 80s, toys and computer games (or toys from the 80s and such).
You Tube, if it doesn’t scare the pants off TV producers…
.. it really should do.
Sure, you tube is great of short clips of people falling over or lighting their farts, but when used properly, it shows the potential for internet based video entertainment.
Well producers, funny, made-on-a-shoestring shows are appearing on you tube that should make large production companies ashamed of themselves. At the moment I am watching:
Hope is Emo:This is a series done in the stype of a an Emo girl called hope who keeps some sort of video diary. Its well acted and the script is very tight and clever. Plus it nails the “Emo” type i.e. they don’t really have any problems because the come from comfortable middle class homes, so they have to make up things to get upset about.
Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager: This is… for some reason, the younger brother of Darth Vader… who…. Works in a supermarket, as the day shift manager.An odd idea, but well put tougher. The episodes are short, but there are plenty of star wars based gags. The producers have obviously been to film school, because they have managed to cram in all the stuff that movies are supposed to have ( love interest, conflict, etc…).As I say, its all star wars based, so best if you know what that is about to get the jokes.
Mookie and Sam: This ones a big hit the Missus. The life and times of two Manhattan pooches.Basically, video of two cute little dogs, voice overed in the style of Look Who’s Talking. Well acted, quite funny and always cute.A must see for do lovers.
Ask Ninja:A kind of a stylised talking head of a Ninja who gives his opinion about stuff.I don’t really get this, but it’s the #1 show on You Tube.
Red Vs Blue:While I haven’t watched this is ages, it was the first online series that I got in to. And this was back in 2003, pre dating You Tube by quite a while. It’s a comedy filmed using the computer game Halo, voice overd and edited in to a very funy show that largely takes the piss out of computer games and the internet.
Paedophiles are abusing your children through there Nintendo DS’s, right now.
Or so this Fox news report would have you believe.
Facts: - The DS comes with a wireless networking capability, part of this is the built in “Picochat” facility which allows you to create a “room” that other DS users can join and send messages. This is done over a local network i.e. not the internet. So the other parties have to be pretty close. As well as this, you have to have your DS in picochat mode waiting for someone to contact you before you can start chatting.
Fox’s spin:- Your child, sat in his\her bedroom will be contacted by a paedophile (or child molester, as they call them in this video), groomed and then abducted or whatever. To prove this point the reporter, sat on the stairs in the same house as two little girls, with their mother standing over him watching what he typed, joined in on a conversation they where having on their DS’s (in the same room, so I don’t know why then didn’t just talk). The mother was suitably shocked and horrified when he was able to join in on their conversation. Personally, I think if you have a paedophile sitting on the stairs playing on his Nintendo DS, you have slightly more pressing problems that then fact he may ask your kids what their favourite colour is.
I have two issues with this report. 1) Paedophiles on the internet are a real problem, the internet brings anonymity and an ability to communicate instantly from all over the world which is ideal for the type of grooming activities that hey wish to carry out, children should be educated about the problems and relevant steps should be taken to ensure that your children remain safe. For a paedophile to contact your child via their DS, not only will they have to be sitting, waiting for someone to talk to them, the nonce will have to be pretty close to your child anyway, basically stranger danger which your kids should be up to speed on. I have a DS and I never seen an active Picochat room. 2) These sort of panic inducing reports benefit no one. They lead parents to believe that paedophiles are hading behind every bush and there is little they can do about it short of dropping to the technical level of an Amish and locking their kids in their rooms until they are 30.
He's dead, He's been murdered, and somebody’s responsible
The Ed Wood (famous crap director and proto-cross dresser) classic which held the title of “worst movie ever made” is now available to view on You Tube.
Aliens, from another planet, come to earth to re-animate the dead in to there army to take over the world.
You can now marvel at:
Scenes that are supposed to be set at night time, but are in fact filmed in the day time with a back sheet behind them.
Grave stones obviously made out of polystyrene.
The set of an alien space ship which is just a sparkly curtain.
Flying saucers which are literally just hub caps.
To top it all, the movie is supposed to be staring Bella Lugosi. In fact, the director (Ed Wood) happened to have some film of him that he shot prior to his death, so he pasted this in to the start of the movie, then had a different person play Lugosi character, but covering his face with his cloak.
A warning that is put on tv shows to stop kids from acting like power rangers or superman and getting them selves hurt.
Kids
Not grown men. That must be why these two numptys must not have paid attention to the warning on whatever American wrestling show they saw the concept of pile driving (that’s a wrestling move, if you didn’t know) someone through a trestle table, from the roof of your house.
This made me laugh so much I had to wipe spit off of my monitor.
Lasse is a Norwegian student who is producing some of the most amusing, original stuff on You Tube.
He is, in my mind, a view of how media in the future will work and how people like Rupert Murdoch should start getting very worried. A man, with a camcorder, some time, skill and a little inspiration can produce an excellent product and then broadcast it to anybody who wants to watch. Why the hell would we bother lowering our IQ watching the same-old-same-old shite that you get on TV.
Apparently you tube and similar services are already starting to impact TV viewing figures, I sure know they are in my house. Sometimes in the evening me and my Bird will spend an hour just surfing interesting stuff on you tube on the computer in the living room that is where the TV should be. Of course, there is a lot of crap on your tube, but that’s the magic, you get to choose what you watch.
Anyhoo, I seemed to have got a little sidetracked.
I have posted some of this stuff before, but I thought I would put a little list of his best stuff together.
This is a German forklift truck instructional video, not what you would imagine to be your typical source of comedy, but this really is (and its meant to be, this is not laughing at the silly foreigners).
Its about 10 mins long, and the first few mins are a bit boring, but stick with it, it’s a real gem.
Easily one of the most talented and, quite frankly, weirdest contributors to the magenta cock laden world that is B3TA, Mutated Monty, or Cyrak as he calls himself on You Tube has come up with some of the best looping animations, a lot of which make Terry Gilliam’s work on Monty Python look sane. Below is a collection of some of his best and weirdest work.
“A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody.”
Or to put it another way, this is the law that stops the state locking you up for as long as they like without a trial, pretty fundamental stuff for a free country. So I guess we can take the USA out of the category of “free countries”.
"the military has the authority to capture and detain individuals whom it has determined are enemy combatants including enemy combatants claiming American citizenship. Such combatants, moreover, have no right of access to counsel to challenge their detention." Furthermore, continues the brief, "the Court may not second-guess the military’s enemy-combatant determination"
So, once they have determined that somebody is an enemy, the don’t have to prove it. They can just keep them locked up for as long as they like.
And that can be anybody.
It makes me glad I don’t live in the land of the free.
Below is commentary on this situation from the program “Countdown: Special Comment”. Its 10 minutes long, but I recommend you watch it.
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