Come on, like I wasn’t going to post this?
The Muppets Attack Fox News (by LeicesterSquareTV)
Source: youtube.com
The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.
At base, I object to any system that makes me feel like a store clerk in “High Fidelity.” Those guys are not my guys. I mean, I don’t follow basketball statistics. I watch the Oscars for the starlet meltdowns and I don’t expect the “best movie” to be the best movie. I black out when I try to calculate the tip. Please don’t make me tell you the best television show of the year.
Although the answer is obviously “Breaking Bad.”
Emily Nussbaum rants against the top ten list. I’m a lover of top-ten lists, it’s usually my favorite thing about the Internet - a month long retrospective into why the past year was awesome. A well cultivated top-ten list helps frame the zeitgeist of the year, and helps uncover great music, tv, and movies you might have missed. For the critic, I can imagine it to be a tiresome effort to weed through all the competing lists, but to the reader, it’s a year-end compilation that helps make sure you didn’t miss something beautiful or fantastic.
Don’t miss:
- very small array » NY & LA Are Meaningless Without Each Other
- very small array » Where have all the Kanyes gone?
- The Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2011 - NYTimes.com
- Music Critic Top 10 Lists - Best Albums of 2011 - Metacritic
- Top 10 Political Wire Stories of 2011
- The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists : Monkey See : NPR
- The Top 10 reasons that Top 10 lists are so popular with journalists, readers | Poynter.
Source: newyorker.com
An awesome Ken Burns-style documentary about coffee is SF. Don’t miss the gmail letter home at 2:36.
The Coffee Wars (by killingmylobster)
Source: youtube.com
kim jong-illin’… some of the finest photoshop work ever.
Source: kimjongildroppingthebass
What a great photo! - (via colossal)
Carl with motormatic 1964 (by ripcordjerry)
Source: Flickr / ripcordjerry
This video of a pen-drawn image took 210 hours to make (over the course of 1 year). But that’s nothing compared to this Jelly Bean video by Kina Grannis which took 1,300 hours (over the course of 22 months!).
Hero (by Miguel Endara)
Source: vimeo.com
It is astonishing to think that in the 21st century people still think there is a distinction between style and substance. The two are not the same. The better it looks the more you want to use it the more function you get out of it anyway.
A swedish all-girl band covers Robyn with empty containers. It’s far better than you’d expect.
(Apparently, this cover has spawned a number of covers of various quality)
Erato - Call Your Girlfriend (by favoritanton)
Source: youtube.com
If there is one difference today it’s that things are happening a lot faster. A transition that took a decade is happening in three years today, even though the entire market is orders of magnitude bigger.
While fund managers continue to debate whether they should buy Amazon (AMZN) at a 95 P/E ratio or Google at 22 P/E ratio, Apple will have reported more in revenue in one quarter than each of these companies reported all last year.
