Month: September 2007

Want to learn how to dance? Who better than James Brown to give you some dancing lessons (YouTube video)?

Check out Alex DePue’s awesome performance of Yes’ Owner of a Lonely Heart and Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal on the violin. Bobby Yang’s violin version of Van Halen’s Eruption is pretty damn cool too…

I’m sure you’ve all heard about Nigerian e-mail scams. The Back Page comes up with a pretty convincing Reverse Nigerian e-mail scam in which W is the perpetrator.

The YouTube video Women In Film is a worthy follow-up to the video 500 Years of Women In Art.

13 Things You Should Avoid Doing on a First Date is a humorous, if somewhat obvious for most well-adjusted individuals, list of tips for dating.

Ursi’s Blog came across a very interesting page entitled Wondersoftheworld.tv: “100 wonders of the world presented in a modern way: videos, bookmarks for Google Earth and links to Wikipedia.” Well worth exploring…

The Hello Experiment is a video documenting a group of artists trying to create a bust of Lionel Richie out of clay while blindfolded. For some reason the results are not quite as good as in Lionel Richie’s video Hello…

Anil Dash posts:

Armin Wagner’s created a brilliant collection entitled Crates and Barrels, cataloguing the ubiquity of these containers in video game culture. Though they’re obviously favorites in 3D games for their simplicity (hey, that’s a cube, and that’s a cylinder!), there’s something kind of pleasing about the way they cross so many genres and generations of games.

The fake trailer to Minesweeper: The Movie is pretty good…

Lufthansa’s Virtual Pilot is a game in which you locate European destinations on a map, with each round revealing less information. How well did you do?

If you like this game, you might like the game Geosense that I mentioned a while ago…