Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
"Gordon Ramsay always advises his victims on Kitchen Nightmares to simplify, and it's good advice."
Ah, jeez.

I don't watch TV. Period. None. Zip. Even if I did, I don't think I get the Fox Network in the subset of available channels that comes with our barebones ($2.80/mo in addition to my computer connection) from Comcast.

After SG's comment (see title of this post), I hied off to Google with a /kitchen nightmares gordon ramsay/ search.

First up: the Fox Kitchen Nightmares Web site. Entertaining little itty-bitty less-than-a-minute clips.

After some poking and prying around in YouTube, HotDiggity! a stash of episodes (which I have, with great reluctance, set aside until later. ... His nibs doesn't care to be forced to listen to YouTube clips I'm playing while he's plunked in the chair of the desk face-to-face with me. ... Later!)

Thanks, SG! I just caught up on the season finale of Project Runway yesterday and was wondering what I'd do ... Gordon Ramsay it is!

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Monday, February 11, 2008
YouTube - IT'S OVER Roy Orbison


Amazing what's available on YouTube.

I'm a huge fan of Orbison. I will probably bounce from YouTube to YouTube to YouTube to ... until (not long from now) I decide I'm about ready to crash.

Claudette. Pretty Woman. Running Scared.



Blue Bayou




from Orbison to Patsy Cline


to Hank Williams



to ... well ... oddly enough there's nothing much on YouTube from Cisco Houston.

Joan Baez, however. ...



I bought a photograph of Mimi and Debbie Green, taken while Mimi lived on Alta. The two are goofing off at the corner of Union and Montgomery, with the piers and Bay as backdrop.

Thank you, John Cooke.

Cooke sold me a piece of his life. Man, I love the Web and the John Cookes of the world.

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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Michelle Obama - Be Not Afraid


[Note: Previous link went 404. New link added.]

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Need a little cheering up?
Need a little cheering up?
Watch this:

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Monday, February 04, 2008
Super Bowl 2008 ads now up
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Obama - Yes, we can.
Liked this. 4:30m video. "Obama. Yes, we can" from Dipdive.com

Forwarded on to me by the younger younger Guy. Thanks.

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
People in Order by Lenka Clayton and James Price



100. ... (Is that it?)

Brilliant idea.


[via Laughing Squid]

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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Watch Daily Show Video Clips Online
By golly they DID IT!

Watch Daily Show Video Clips Online

Comedy Central's putting all Daily Show videos online (paired with subtle and well-thought-out advertising, natch).

1999-Now. Seven thousand one hundred twenty-eight videos so far.

The national productivity index makes a whooshing sound as it plummets by.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be sk8trs


Fun with ping pong balls.

Time spent? Who knows? Probably time enough to develop a perpetual motion machine or discover the meaning of life.

[Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out.]

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Friday, September 21, 2007
"If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it."
Read/watch this lecture, billed as Randy Pausch's "last lecture."

As an intro, the article in the WSJ that talks about the lecture.

The video of the speech is an hour and three-quarters if you watch to the very end. There's also an edited five-minute video, but it doesn't capture what the full video does.

Randy Pausch's speech (and Randy Pausch), inspirational.

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A coach. An act of kindness. Goosebumps. Tears.
The video this post links to is dashing around the Web this week even though it was taken four years ago.



Made me cry. I'm sure the young woman singing the National Anthem still remembers that night and the kindness of Mo.

Check out this article, written not long after the video was taken in 2003.

*sniffles*

Also check out Patti Digh's blog, 37days, which is where this all came from.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
For K and for those second cousins of mine who wear big buckles
Wandering from song to song in YouTube, I came across a couple anthems for a cowboy grandma and my second cousins who wear big buckles:


The Highwaymen: Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

and


The Highwaymen: The Last Cowboy Song

'night.

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Who knew? Brian Hyland
I was reading someone's blog tonight and they mentioned Brian Hyland and Gypsy Woman.

Gypsy Woman? What? I knew Gypsy Woman, of course, but had never associated it with Hyland. Why would I? I knew Hyland because of his big hit in the summer of 1962, Sealed With A Kiss. I know it was 1962 because that was the summer after fifth grade, the school year when I'd swooned over Phil Johnston, whose sister Sheila was in my older sister's class. When school ended in June, Phil'd up and moved away. Sealed With A Kiss, was my anthem that summer as I mooned about. Sealed with a kiss, if only.

Same Brian Hyland? How many Brian Hyland's singing in that time frame could there be?

So, I popped /"brian hyland" "gypsy woman" "sealed with a kiss"/ into Google and found out Hyland wasn't a one hit wonder. He was indeed the same dude and, furthermore, his first and biggest hit (recorded in 1960 when he was a sophomore in high school) was Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss.

Who knew?

Last, but not least, my Web searching scored me a vid of Hyland lip-synching Sealed With A Kiss on some bandstand show, probably Dick Clark's.



Check out the dancers! There's a classic nerd with black rimmed glasses and plaid jacket and a girl doing what looks like the Frug. (No, not those on the stage behind him. Later in the video. Watch! The guy she's dancing with is dressed in a buttoned cardigan sweater. No lie!)

Nostalgia hits hard tonight.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Some folks with faaaaar too much time on their hands


(For those who can't embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdq8cRNBM)

Rube Goldberg cooks ramen.

For jeffkos 'cause we all know how much he likes ramen and because I'm tinkering with the bookmarks I recently moved to http://del.icio.us/towse and I happen to be poking around in foodie links and came across Matt Fischer's (moved since I first found it while he was at umr.edu) Official Ramen Homepage which eventually led me to YouTube (as all things do) and 'cause kos said the bikini wax post "did nothing to help my day along. Not a thing." Here's something to help your day along, Jeff. The things I will do for my funs.

Just six and a half minutes of your time. (You could be watching an egg hardboil.) This is better. Trust me.

NOTE: Japanese play-by-play ...

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Amy E. Boyle Johnston
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Amy E. Boyle Johnston, LA Weekly.

[...]

Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.

"Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was," Bradbury says, summarizing TV's content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: "factoids." He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.

His fear in 1953 that television would kill books has, he says, been partially confirmed by television's effect on substance in the news. The front page of that day's L.A. Times reported on the weekend box-office receipts for the third in the Spider-Man series of movies, seeming to prove his point.

"Useless," Bradbury says. "They stuff you with so much useless information, you feel full." He bristles when others tell him what his stories mean, and once walked out of a class at UCLA where students insisted his book was about government censorship. He's now bucking the widespread conventional wisdom with a video clip on his Web site (http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html), titled "Bradbury on censorship/television."

As early as 1951, Bradbury presaged his fears about TV, in a letter about the dangers of radio, written to fantasy and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson. Bradbury wrote that "Radio has contributed to our 'growing lack of attention.'... This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people."


[...]

"I was worried about people being turned into morons by TV," Bradbury says in the censorship/television video clip. The collection of clips includes his explanation of how he wrote Fahrenheit 451 in nine days in a clip titled (oddly enough) FAHRENHEIT 451.

The Bradbury site also includes a wonderful obit for Marguerite Susan McClure (Maggie) Bradbury, who died in 2003.

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Sic Press: Book Repair & Cleaning Supplies for Booksellers
Sic Press not only sells supplies but also a how-to book: UNBOUND: Book Repair for Booksellers ($16).

Sic Press also offers (free!) on-site informative how-to videos with titles like "How to Remove a Bookplate" and "Re-attaching a Single Cover."

Useful info on the Web for the bibliophiles with beat-up old books amongst us.

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Saturday, June 02, 2007
They were younger then ...
... and so were we.




This video leaves me feeling ... almost a feeling of saudade except that you can't go home again. You can never go back.

For all you nostalgia freaks, myself included, which of the couples in this video are still a pair?

Or even would be if all the principals were still alive?


John and Yoko? John died.
Paul and Linda? Linda died.
George and Patti? Divorced. George married Olivia. Patti married Clapton. Patti divorced Clapton. George died.
Ringo and Maureen? Divorced. Maureen died.

sigh

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Monday, April 30, 2007
Derren Brown - subliminal advertising


Derren Brown on subliminal advertising.



... on NLP

Fascinating stuff.

Derren Brown on C4's site

Derren Brown's Web site

I'd never heard of Derren Brown until tonight. I just went back to see how I'd fallen into this Derren Brown universe. My original heads up was from a post on AdRants.

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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Doll Face by Andy Huang
Doll Face by Andy Huang ~4min.

Doll Face follows a machine's struggle to construct its own identity.

Strange. Thought provoking.

[Lifted from halsted's del.icio.us links]

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Friday, April 27, 2007
Film clips from yesteryear
The Web's a wonder ...

Film clip of the opening of the world's largest bridge. 1937.



[spotted on Curbed SF]

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Sunday, March 18, 2007
[YOUTUBE] Hillary mashup
The YouTube Hillary mashup made it to the front page above the fold of today's Chronicle.

Found two versions at YouTube:

Short: Vote Different (1:13)



Long: VOTE SMART: a warning to all women about hillary clinton (5:14)




Obama's campaign sez they had nothing to do with it. Others are pointing fingers to the same folk who brought us the Swift Boat Veterans.

Being as the presidential primaries don't kick off until the Iowa caucuses next January, it looks like it will be a very interesting tit-for-tat election this time around.

Update: Above the fold, front page, SFChronicle today (20 Mar 2007) as well, with a buzz buzz article about who might have mashed it and why. A Rove device to slam Hillary and catch Obama in the crossfire with one swat?

Have you watched both videos? I think the short one is more effective. The long one just goes on and on and on, well past my patience. I believe the long one is a revamp of the short one. Who co-opted the short video? Wonder what the original masher thinks of that?

Update2: Archer has a link to a Barack 1984 video. As I commented there, Too bad the Clinton supporters are so lacking in originality. They're ripping off a mashup, for pete's sake. Do your own clever thing, peoples. This just looks petty. And stoopid.

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Friday, March 16, 2007
[YOUTUBE] Middle Ages Tech Support



[via hisnibs who received it in e-mail from SueJ. Thanks, Sue!]

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Everything I know - Buckminster Fuller and other treats from Smashing Telly
First heard about Smashing Telly over at Sour Grapes, where SG offered up a link to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.

Man, what a resource Smashing Telly is.

Everything from Jean-Luc Godard to this forty-one minute interview with Buckminster Fuller ("Everything I Know") to over an hour with George Carlin to Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten to interviews with Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio for The Making of Koyaanisqatsi.

David Galbraith explains: Smashing Telly is a hand edited collection of the best free, instantly available TV on the web. Not 30 second clips of a dog on a skateboard, or the millionth person to mime the Numa song, but full length programs. Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly.

Many of the items that I'll be putting up on a regular basis are documentaries, since that's what tends to be out there at the moment.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007
CBS5 brings you thirty minutes with Gavin un-cut. No question off the table.
KPIX brings you thirty minutes un-cut of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom answering questions from KPIX CBS5's Hank Plante.

An exclusive and you can bet your bottom dollar Newsom's not going through this for each and every one of you newshounds out there. You could almost see Gavin draw in a breath after some questions and thinking, what is he going to ask next.

(And, sweet mercy, when will this be over?)

Plante: "Let me ask you another question. ... There are rumors that you also used cocaine and other substances..."

(The actual news spot was far shorter. That's also available at the site.)

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Craig Ferguson and his heartfelt why-I-won't-trash-Britney remarks
Twelve minutes.

Well worth it.

Craig Ferguson's monologue from Tuesday, 20 Feb 2007.

I'd embed it for you (tried!) but CBS isn't allowing embedding.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
KFOG Kaboom! 2007
This post is for the someone who came by this site earlier with a Yahoo! search for /2007 kfog kaboom, piers 30 & 32/

According to the Port Authority Web site (KFOG Kaboom "Hold for Event"), mark May 12th on the calendar for this year's Kaboom!

a link to the 2006 Kaboom! page with a click to video of the fireworks set to a rock music soundscript.

... and ditto for 2005.

[coinkadinkly: KFOG sent out an e-mail to Fogheads late yesterday telling us that the date this year for Kaboom! is May 12th! Hah.]

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
San Francisco Street Art / Graffiti
Ryan pulled together a very well-done video collage of photos he took of San Francisco Street Art / Graffiti while he was tooling around the City on his bicycle in 2006.

Some of my favorites are here: Mona Caron's Duboce Bikeway Mural, f'rex (visible from the N-Judah).

Some of my favorites aren't in the collection: the mural on the side of the building at the NW corner of Columbus and Broadway (thx to karbon69 for the click) and "One Tree" by RIGO [photo by kootenayvolcano]. There are others not included, including the murals on some buildings on Bay just up from Tower Records, but I can't find pictures. Guess I'll have to make some of my own.

[YouTube link from a link Ryan posted to SFist/labs/contribute last month]

[note: flickr has photo pool for San Francisco/murals. Check it out if this sort of thing interests you.]

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