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Chinese MC Hammer.
Move for move nearly perfect redo of the original Hammer video. In someone's living room. While mom knits on the couch. It's a thousand kinds of awesome.
via blort
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at 10:35 PM on March 29, 2008
(75 comments)
The paintings on Nerdkore
by Jeremiah Palecek started when he asked readers "What should I paint today?" and they responded. The result (so far) is a bunch of famous YouTube videos captured in oil on canvas, showing stills from some all-time favorites (techno viking, grape stomp, etc
oh and NSFW on the oldest entry at the bottom of the page). (via
Josh Spear)
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at 9:48 AM on March 11, 2008
(19 comments)
"It's the first time since Japanese Internment that we've imprisoned children" -- from
a post displaying
a letter written by a 9 year old Canadian.
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at 7:15 PM on March 10, 2008
(72 comments)
Uncle Dirty
is a fascinating photo essay about a photographer's strange uncle who has lived 86 years obsessed with bodybuilding, penises, and thongs. Not safe for work, but not too crazy, the photos really humanize someone you'd probably cross the street to avoid in real life. (via
mjj/
blort)
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at 11:13 AM on March 8, 2008
(130 comments)
Everyblock has launched.
It's local news culled from (any and all available) services, including photos, news, restaurant inspections, classified ads, and civic announcements. Sounds pretty dry, but looking at
my old neighborhood in San Francisco, there's a wealth of hyperlocal information that you can't get in one place. They're currently in three major metro areas of the US with many more to come --
their launch announcement has more. This site was spearheaded by
Adrian Holovaty, a pioneer of the intersection between journalism and computer science, and
winner of a $1million grant last year to build such sites.
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at 2:07 PM on January 23, 2008
(34 comments)
Post a controversial comment, get arrested.
"Some were disturbed by the post police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending."
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at 4:03 PM on December 4, 2007
(121 comments)
You need organs, they need homes.
"We are a domestic and international adoption agency where parents are free to adopt a child who is a perfect match (up to 18 yrs) for the transplant of one or more “non-essential” organs to be donated to one of the adopting parents or your own children. Your new son or daughter would give you their heart, if it was possible, but a lung, eye or three feet of intestine might be enough to prove that love."
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at 11:16 AM on September 19, 2007
(74 comments)
The Shoe Project:
people and their shoes. Simple and sweet, I don't know why this makes me smile so much but it does.
(via swissmiss)
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at 12:11 PM on August 15, 2007
(23 comments)
Cycling for a cause
is the project/site of Canadian college student Michal Brichacek. On May 3rd of this year
he set out from Alaska on his bike, aiming to ride all 12,000km (7440 miles) by early August. He's
riding to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and he's over halfway done, currently riding across a hot Mexico landscape.
His blog has his daily adventures (mostly about having to look for tent spots, supplies, and meeting interesting strangers). He's also posting
daily photos of the trip.
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at 8:19 PM on July 9, 2007
(9 comments)
Peggy
a redo of the Lichtenstein modern classic using 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels mounted on a wall, forming a 3 x 7 foot work of art.
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at 1:40 PM on May 29, 2007
(38 comments)
"Even LG Electronics Inc., maker of the handset Elmi uses, initially didn't believe her photos originated from its LG8100 phone when she asked the company to sponsor a recent gallery exhibit of her camera-phone art." (
news,
gallery works)
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at 8:31 AM on May 24, 2007
(34 comments)
Do The Right Thing
(youtube) performed by little people muppet figures, set in Sesame Street.
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at 6:19 PM on April 7, 2007
(22 comments)
The Prisoners of YouTube
is a pretty good longish article on all the reluctant internet video celebs, including
Star Wars Kid,
Afroninja, the
Numa Numa Kid, and more. It's an interesting look at the downside of unwarranted attention and how a few people have turned these embarrassing moments in the sun to their advantage.
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at 6:05 PM on February 19, 2007
(51 comments)
Inveneo
is a non-profit bringing technology to the developing world. They've got
several projects going in Africa to connect, train, and equip villages but their latest push is an interesting one:
The Thumb Drive Drive. In the era of $50 2Gb USB drives, many of us probably have discarded 16-128Mb drives sitting around. Send them to Inveneo and they'll get used in places where broadband isn't an option and quick storage is necessary.
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at 9:43 AM on December 13, 2006
(10 comments)
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. With just a week to launch, the PS3 and Wii are almost here and there is plenty of help out there if you want to try scoring one on launch day. For the Wii,
read up on this guide, or
try this one for the ps3. The
Wiiseeker and
PS3seeker will tell you exactly how many units your closest Target, Walmart, and Gamestop will have ready to sell. Ask MeFi also offers help:
1,
2,
3. And the
latest MeFi Project helps those that are sticking it out at
Console Camp.
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at 9:48 AM on November 10, 2006
(85 comments)
Andy Baio blows the lid off a disturbing new trend:
sex baiting on craigslist. The story is pretty simple: man makes up fake Casual Encounters ad posing as a woman looking for a good time, then he publishes any and all responses in a public forum. All hell breaks loose.
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at 7:17 AM on September 8, 2006
(218 comments)
Musicast
turns your iTunes (mac only) into a music sharing server that conveniently spits out a podcast feed for your friends to subscribe and download all your mp3s from.
Download this quick before
the RIAA kills the server something might happen to this wonderful app.
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at 6:23 PM on August 30, 2006
(37 comments)
laundryroom swapmeet
"I live in an apartment building. We have a laundry room. The laundry room has a table. People put things on the table, and other people take those things away later. It's a laundry room swapmeet. I take pictures of the things and write about them. Hilarity more-or-less ensues." Awesome.
[via mefi projects]
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at 10:58 AM on August 3, 2006
(28 comments)
Yes, it's another Snakes on a Plane promo
but this one is different: it's fucking awesome. Drop in your friends name (hopefully it's semi-normal and they have it in the db), then fill out some info about your friend, then have it place a call to them. Watch friend freak out when Samuel L. Jackson calls them up and knows all sorts of shit about them. Trust me, it totally freaked me out when someone did it to me today.
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at 8:53 PM on August 2, 2006
(114 comments)
Work Friendly
is the greatest website ever for people trying to get away with web browsing at work. You enter a URL, it launches a new window styled to resemble a Word Document window. It even includes a "Boss" key to convert the page to regular text. Check out
MeFi in it.
[via waxy]
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at 11:43 AM on August 2, 2006
(39 comments)
