7/19/2006

From Herbie Hancock to Jay-Z

Filed under: Culture, Fun and Games, TEH INTARWEB — Tim @ 7:49 pm

Have you always wanted to see the 100 most uber awesome music videos ever made? Do you have several free hours to burn?

Somehow, someone with a lot of time and patience compiled such a list, each with a little background and description and all courtesy of YouTube.

I was personally disappointed that “The Safety Dance” did not make the cut.

Valve presents Portal

Filed under: TEH INTARWEB, Technology — Tim @ 5:13 pm

ArsTechnica has a write-up of a new game coming from the makers of Half-Life called Portal.

While all the elements of a traditional FPS are present, the flexibility and innovation the end-user has at their disposal is pretty damn awesome.

Check out the in-game video to truly understand the dynamic possibilities.

See more on Rube Goldberg machines here.

Squeeze play

Filed under: Fun and Games, Odds and Ends, TEH INTARWEB, Technology — Tim @ 1:02 am

Just finished playing an intense double-header of slow-pitch softball. The mercy rule won.

A couple of neat posts from BoingBoing:

- Video of a Marx Brother (Corbaccio) playing the piano.  More on Vaudeville.
- Area man mistakes Onion story for reality — believe it or not, but this was not the first time this has happened. A popular Chinese newspaper also made the same mistake several years ago.

And if you missed it, Sploid has some good coverage of the blow-up space hotel that was successfully launched today.