Darth Bristol

Probably not new to a lot of you, but today was the first time I’ve heard Star Wars with Darth Vader’s lines voiced by the Bristol actor David Prowse, before he was overdubbed by James Earl Jones. Come to the dark side, moi luvver?!

Office camouflage

…for when you just aren’t keen for visitors. In this case, it’s actually a Russian insurance company that doesn’t want to pay out.

Demon sheep hates California!

This gem from the redoubtable Carly Fiorina, ex-cheerleader for Sarah Palin, and the woman that wrecked Hewlett-Packard.

Now she’s trying to take Democrat incumbent Barbara Boxer’s seat in the US Senate. First, she has to take down her fellow Republican, Tom Campbell.

…with demon sheep.

If you get bored of the nasty voiceover, it starts getting particularly strange at about 2:20.

I pity the poor intern.

Video from The Amazing Meeting, London

For people who wonder what a skeptical conference is like:

The Pain Pack: music from emotional pain

Another inspired project from Ze Frank, taking voicemail descriptions of emotional pain, making them available as samples for musicians to transform and remix: The Pain Pack.

QVC Fail (but I repeat myself) (Video)

Being a fan of Charlie Brooker, I particularly enjoyed it when shopping channel QVC, hawking a flat-screen TV,  left it  tuned to his Screenwipe programme during a particularly vitriolic moment.

and here’s one of the original Brooker rants with soundtrack:

The Daily Mail’s cancer obsession

Bad Science columnist Ben Goldacre remarked that the Daily Mail seems to be on a mission to classify every inanimate object into a) things that give you cancer, and b) things that cure cancer: an oncological ontology project. Various people have taken up the task of amassing  lists of both kinds of article. Perhaps the most accessible is Kill or Cure? with an enormous list arranged alphabetically. Many things that are claimed to both cause and prevent cancer, including children, coffee and spicy food.

The Rockwell Retro Encabulator, explained

Thanks to Alex for forwarding this celebration of extremely un-plain English, with shades of Look Around You:

The Wikipedia article gives some background. Here’s the older version of the video:

How to Make Out (Video)

Videojug – the people who brought you How To Kiss Someone Passionately, How To Do The Hug And Roll and How To Cuddle – once again take a very funny angle on dating tips.

This post is blatant, unapologetic Google-bait as a lot of hits on this blog are from people searching on these questions.

360-degree video from Haiti

360 degree interactive video has so far seemed like a novelty, but through this link, CNN lets you travel on a truck through Haiti, and stop and take a look around.