September, 2011

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20 characters from movies and television doing their best Vader impression.

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From “creative technologist” Casey Pugh:

I recently created Music Video Genome. It’s essentially Pandora for music videos (or a personalized MTV). Through the power of VHX’s new API, Last.fm and YouTube, it made it quite simple to accomplish.

This past weekend I participated in a video hackday. You get 24 hours to start and finish a video based project. At the end everyone demos their speed hack.

My project morphed several times over the course of the weekend, but the final result ended up being something I’m really enjoying.

I called it Genome because it’s not that simple to match music videos to real songs. Most music “videos” on YouTube are just a stupid static image. Granted not all songs have music videos, but it would be amazing if I could crowd-source the documentation of music videos to songs. If a song does not have an official music video, fans could make their own and have it bubble up as the official video.

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Jay shows the rest of us what he ate for breakfast while hang gliding, much to the horror of anyone on the ground beneath the flight path.

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She’s pooping.

Carry on.

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The development montage from X-Men: First Class gets re-scored with the original track from Disney’s Mulan. Here’s hoping the “We’re Gonna Need A Montage” edit is on its way.

Also: Here is Jackie Chan singing the Mulan track in Mandarin and Cantonese, because he’s Jackie Chan.

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From Letters of Note:

When, in early-1986, Disney executives decided to change the title of their upcoming animated feature from ‘Basil of Baker Street’ to the less ambiguous ‘The Great Mouse Detective’, its production team were less than pleased. One animator in particular, Ed Gombert, harnessed his displeasure to comical effect by creating, and circulating, the following: a fake memo purportedly from then-head of department, Peter Schneider, in which he announced the retroactive renaming of Disney’s entire back catalogue, bar The Aristocats, in a similarly bland style.

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An important PSA from UCB’s Midnight Show.

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6 Movie Plot Holes You Never Noticed Thanks to Editing – [Cracked]

10 Infamous Cat Burglars – [Listverse]

Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana – [Business Insider]

Dustin Moskovitz created Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year, he left the $80 billion-dollar company to start Asana, a group collaboration tool for enterprises.

Today, he told the TechCrunch Disrupt audience what early Facebook was like, and why he left it to start another company.

Videogum’s Recap Of The Last Episode Of Entourage > The Last Season Of Entourage – [Videogum]

Holy fucking shit. I had every expectation that the final episode of Entourage of all time would be bad. That it would casually wrap up its boring storylines in convenient ways and that at the end of it all we would be left with exactly what we had when we started eight seasons ago: nothing. And that is basically what happened, but it was so MUCH WORSE than I could have imagined! Obviously, this was a bad, lazy, terribly written show, but you would think that after eight years they would have managed to squeak out some kind of half hour conclusion that was more satisfying and less disgusting. This isn’t The Sopranos. There are literally no actual loose ends to tie up. The only thing they had to do was bring all the characters together, pop open a bottle of champagne, wave their ATM receipts showing the millions each of them has in their checking account in the air, and crash a Lamborghini into the White House.

TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency – [Human Events]

“The whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats,” said Rep. John Mica (R. -Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

“It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said.  “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.”

As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”

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