August, 2010

The last of a series of promotional photos with “Old Spice Guy” and comic book lover Isaiah Mustafa as Marvel hero Luke Cage.

The guys behind it are pushing for Isaiah to star as Luke Cage in the upcoming Marvel film.  If you’d like to join the fight, you can go here to show your support.

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From The White House Flickr Account:

President Barack Obama jokingly puts his toe on the scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, unaware to the President’s action, weighs himself as the presidential entourage passed through the volleyball locker room at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, Aug. 9, 2010.

C’mon…this guy is awesome.

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Josh Ellingson continues his tribute to popular web videos with “Chinchilla Wearing A Paper Hat”, inspired by this video.

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20 Classic ’90s Music Videos That Didn’t Make Pitchfork’s Top 50 – [Flavorwire]

Aug. 24, 2006: Pluto Deplanetized – [Wired]

Isaiah Mustafa: Before He Was The Old Spice Guy – [Daily Fill]

A Few Things You Don’t Know About Bill Murray (Infographic) – [NextRound]

10 Of History’s Worst Traffic Jams – [Jalopnik]

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino Will Make More Money Than You This Year – [THR]

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Sean Penn on set for This Must Be The Place or How To Kill An Erection Instantly (working international title).

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Agent-X

Funny Or Die

Created for NYC subway travelers that enjoy a little suspense in their platform wait time.

Jason says:

In 2007, the New York City Transit Authority began installing LED signs on subway platforms that display estimated wait times for arriving trains. Unfortunately the information is little more than trivia: except for a few stations, it is only visible to travelers after they’ve paid their fare, so the data has little bearing on commuter decision-making.

Their primary effect, then, is to erode faith in the system, to create expectations that can’t always be met, to raise false hopes, and to erase the mystery and magic of the wondrous system that transports more than five million riders a day.

These LED signs also threaten historical social behaviors, rendering obsolete the time-honored New York tradition of leaning over the platform edge with the hope of glimpsing headlights from an approaching train.

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BlurryPeople is a randomizing video-chat site similar to ChatRoulette except the video feed starts out blurry, so the focus is on the conversation.  The image sharpens over time if the conversation continues, so you’re forced to try to get to know the person before you can judge them on their appearance.  It also features a rating system to help filter out blurry dudes yanking their chain on camera.  From Metafilter:

To increase the likelihood of a good match the next time, you are able to rate your chat partner with tags like “too grumpy”, “too ugly”, and “too dumb”. This way, the worst people are filtered away, and the mechanisms to game are gone, leaving you to form relationships with other people under less superficial circumstances.

Or as the guys behind Blurry People say it: strangers you might actually like.

Pretty cool.  There’s a 90-second preview video over at Blurry People.

Not cool, Mumm-ra. Not cool.

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