The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut... More.
Fox News spokesdouche Glenn Beck is seeking a more direct role in American politics, though it sounds mostly like a clever marketing campaign: "He will promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of conventions across the country featuring conservative speakers, all leading up to a rally ... More.
The Open Rights Group is collecting "Messages to Mandelson" -- that is, photos and brief textual messages to UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, who has proposed that you should lose your access to the Internet if anyone in your household is accused (without proof) of violating copyright law. Yo... More.
Going West is a beautiful short film illustrating the worlds in a book, incorporating papercraft to make something dreamlike and wonderful. It was animated by Andersen M Studio.
NZ Book Council - Going West
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The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing Rouge:
"The AP was determined to get the f... More.
Ooh, a piece of candy. Ooh, a piece of candy. Ooh, a piece of candy.
A surprising familiar sight if you're a Star Wars fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccy76g-Zqa8
It's also reminiscent of a musical number from the film "Little Shop of Horrors"
Might I suggest: Right Click > Little Planet View.
looks a lot like this guy's pinhole camera:
http://www.pinholephotography.org/
Cue "Sittin' Here on a Tongue" by The Grodeck Whipperjenny.
I recommend finding a little animated film called, confusingly enough, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which is set in a dentist's office, from that same POV. Of course, you'll have bad dreams for weeks afterwards, but it's a small price.
The first example I can recall of the shot from inside a mouth was on a fairly early Simpsons episode. Lisa is at the doctor getting checked out (maybe it's when she had mumps?) and there's a tongue-depressor shot from inside her mouth. I realized that I'd never seen a shot from that angle before.
Something - likely the website thinking it's somehow related - has spawned some more nodes inside the mouth that link to panoramas in Barcelona. I wonder if that's a software glitch, or some sort of bizarre social commentary?
Hmm, on second check, these nodes don't appear using the embedded panorama viewer, only if you view the panorama on the website itself.
That's the first thing I thought of, too. The relevant bit is at about 1:25, but the whole song is awesome.
I haven't watched this. I'm not going to watch this. Just the thought of it is giving me palpitations - literally.