When Dogbert writes a list of “Clues for the Clueless”, Bob the Dinosaur reads with growing dismay, “1. Professional wrestling is fake. 2. No one ever lost weight on a home exercise device…” “It’s not healthy to read them all at once,” advises Dogbert.
Maybe the same warning should apply to WikiPedia’s List of Common Misconceptions. Files used to circulate around the Internet, pre-Web, which listed “everybody knows”-type claims and assessed whether they were really true or false. This was a forerunner of sites like Snopes.com, or even the QI television series and books. Wikipedia’s contribution is a handy reference for things that in many cases we think we know but don’t. There’s even less excuse now for believing that water swirls down the plughole differently in different hemispheres.
Sick of all your top quality, expensive TV content being ripped off and posted on YouTube? Then this is how to respond …
… from the Python (Monty) (Official) YouTube channel – nice to hear Mr. Cleese talk about the importance of properly organised and described videos – appeals to the librarian in me!
If the Matrix ran on Microsoft Windows. Not an unobvious idea, but the execution, acting and production are brilliant. From the people who brought you Minesweeper: The Movie.
“Middleman” is Flickr user bayat’s name for his middle finger. Middleman has many adventures: he sunbathes, marries, trains as a ninja, vomits, journeys into space, catches fire and dies horribly in at least two ways. Creative but somehow worrying.
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish’s Song Wars recently featured them creating themes for Symptom of Boris – er, Quantum of Solace, the new Bond film. First, here’s Joe’s:
A regular on the B3ta front pages, David Packer makes short looped films, usually of himself in physically impossible but weirdly funny situations. Sheepfilms is the site with all his stuff, and if you poke around a bit he reveals how he does it.
