Month: August 2006

Part of a hopefully regular feature stolen from inspired by Norman Roberts’ blog innings.

You should definitely visit the Weekly Echo site, as the images have hyperlinks to pertinent news stories of the week…

I really like this recent Mountain Dew commercial (embedded QuickTime video).

It should come as no surprise that after garnering an Emmy Nomination for the episode Trapped In The Closet, South Park ran a somewhat controversial “For Your Consideration” ad in Variety. Check out the full-size version here…

The White, The Black (Flash video) is an extremely surrealistic Russian video depicting a demented portrayal of a chess game. You’ll just have to go and watch, because I can’t explain it other than to say it reminded me of СФИР ЕТ ЅЕРОНЖ (supposedly Worker and Parasite, roughly transcribed as sfir yet seronzh if the Unicode characters don’t show up), the quasi-Eastern European cartoon shown in place of The Itchy & Scratchy Show in the The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. Wow, I spent way too much time on that. ;-p

“Endut! Hoch Hech!”

As you might guess the Google Video The Genius of George Bush celebrates the ineptitude of W with a series of video clips…

787 Cliparts is a video that combines 787 different colored-in clip art line drawings. Kind of mesmerizing…

This amazing photo of the Space Shuttle Discovery was taken just before it docked with the International Space Station. Definitely take a look at the full-size image…

D.C. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton gave as good as she got when recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert (embedded QuickTime video).

As reported by Neatorama, artist Thomas Fuchs “deconstructs the GOP logo” in a series of illustrations. One of my favorites is at right…

Boing Boing (and seemingly everyone else on the Interweb) reports on an “unintentionally hideous college recruitment video” made by Appalachian State University:

Unfortunately, this is not a joke…and this is not an old video. Appalachian State University put out this video last year and it instantly became a viral hit amongst the educational community. It’s probably THE worst educational recruitment video ever and possibly one of the worst songs ever recorded. From the production values to the obsessive use of the same transition to the incredibly lame imagery used in the video, this one takes the cake on almost every level. It’s so bad that it’s destined to become a classic.

Wow.