I ran across this video on Vimeo (a YouTube alternative) — it’s sort of a Mr. Rogers-like book at a book factory, and how they are assembled, from author to distributor. As a typophile and a librophile, this is absolutely fascinating to me. I REALLY WANT a typesetting machine, now. (I’m sure Katie would have [...]

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I was going to vote for Barack Obama anyway, but this video, released today, has really sealed my vote. Barack Obama is really good at speaking plain English — having conversations with his audience rather than politician rhetoric. I feel like he’s read the first set of theses from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a hallmark of [...]

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So for Waffles’s next achievement, I know he’s been talking about learning some more advanced video editing techniques. Well, here’s an example of something homemade (from YouTube user dwlieu) that ought to serve as a motivational example of, um, that:
 

Battlestar Galactica Intro / Star Trek DS9

 
Shot by shot, it’s perfect; it demonstrates an appreciation [...]

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This is absolutely adorable — a fan video featuring some pretty good homebrew special effects, with kindergartners running around as the Doctor, Captain Jack, Davros, and a dalek. It’s great.

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I’m not a particularly big fan of heavy metal, or zombies, but this video is really fascinating. It’s a music video for a song by ANJ, a Russian metal band. It’s a tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, which includes big-breasted women and zombies, and Gorbachev as some sort of Conan the Barbarian hero, cranial bird-poop-shaped birthmark [...]

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This one’s for Butter. It’s a clip of Richard Dawkins reading from his hate mail. It’s funny to listen to Dawkins, with his careful baritone British accent read these things that are written, well, like a silly creationist who just learned to type.

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I saw this early today on BoingBoing, and planned to post it, but damn… PZ beat me to it. It’s… it’s… well, it’s a really strange music video by Devendra Banhart called Carmensita. Natalie Portman is in it, and she’s delightful (like she always is). It’s all delightful. Not to mention really, really weird.
It seems [...]

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I’m a type geek. That’s why I like this video a lot. I disagree, however, that Comic Sans is a superhero — I think maybe the creators were making fun of its insane overuse. Ban Comic Sans!
Check it out:

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A few weeks ago, this lady was on Colbert:

The combination of faith in revealed knowledge and a lack of evangelical zeal struck me as damned odd. It’s a combination that I’ve seen in other religious moderates, and it’s always puzzled me. So indulge me while I piss and moan about it a bit.
Look, [...]

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