Earlier, we posted a children’s choir singing Radiohead’s “Creep”. Today, we came across (via Dangerous Minds) a different children’s choir version of “Creep,” this time, with video from the life of Charlie Brown.
Oscilloscope Laboratories? Nitrous canisters? Liquid LSD in a breath mint bottle?
Why does this new Beastie Boys short film seem strangely familiar…?
Blocking banal content on the internet is a self-defeating proposition. It teaches people how to become dissidents – they learn to find and use anonymous proxies, which happens to be a key first step in learning how to blog anonymously. Every time you force a government to block a web 2.0 site – cutting off people’s access to cute cats – you spend political capital.
Read the whole thing – it’s great.
Gratuitous lolcat inclusion:
…I’m pretty sure ‘Nature’ didn’t collect a bunch of cow juice, stuff it into a steel can, and compress it with nitrous oxide.
Just sayin’.
If any of you have lost a cat you know how upsetting it is. David Thorne responds with his own brilliant brand of snarky designer’s humor. (His whole site is full of hilarious email threads)
Lawrence Yang documents the obvious problem with Verizon’s $100 million integrated ad campaign for the Google/Droid phone. He was inspired by Nancy Friedman, who is a delight to read.
(Be sure also to read Nancy’s linked discussion of anthimeria, which is, loosely speaking, when someone verbs a noun.)
(Below: the actual $100 million ad campaign.)
Lewis Black on the Daily Show absolutely nails it!
