December 2011
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Church of the SubGenius: Episode 1
(Video via Dangerous Minds.)
Wikipedia:
The Church of the SubGenius is a “parody religion” organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture. Originally based in Dallas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominencein the 1980s and 1990s and maintains an active presence on the Internet. In 1996 the legal entity...
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Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie Trailer
Whoa. I would definitely not be against this being made into an actual film.
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U.S. Highway System Re-Imagined As a Subway System
Designer Cameron Booth:
Like the Interstate system, the U.S. Routes (mainly) conform to a numbered grid system. Evenly numbered highways run from west to east, with low numbers in the north (U.S. 2 is the lowest) rising to the highest numbers in the south (U.S. 98 in Florida). Numbers ending in a “0″ are considered “major” routes and are given their own unique colour on the map....
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Awesome Federal Donuts T-Shirt
Philly’s Federal Donuts, the joint that only serves fried chicken, gourmet donuts and coffee, may not have been great at fortelling supply and demand ratios (they always sell out before closing. What did they expect from Philadelphians!?) but they are great at having a sense of humor.
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Telling the Story of Rappers Through Foursquare
Mashable:
PR Manager Paul Rayment is mapping the history of famous rappers on the location-based service, adding note-worthy locations in the buildup to their careers. Rayment has mapped Tupac’s roots and he plans to chronicle Jay-Z next.
This is a really interesting way to bring a narrative to life and make it social.
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Rare Devo Live TV Transmission from 1978
Dangerous Minds:
“Devo’s appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 14, 1978 was a visitation from a rock and roll galaxy far far away and yet so near. It was as if aliens from another planet had created a concept of Earthlings based on old television transmissions they’d hijacked of industrial training films, Triumph Of The Will, episodes of Hullabaloo and Saturday morning cartoons...
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Create Once and Publish Everywhere (COPE)
Courtney Boyd Myers, of The Next Web, outlines some important technological aspects of progressive web design, including Responsive Web Design and HTML5 development, in her article The Future of Web Design. The back-bone of these technologies, however, is the crucial concept of “COPE”:
“By combining Responsive Web Design and a Content First Approach, web designers are...
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MTV's "Sex is No Accident" Spots
Superpunch:
“80’s cartoon-themed spots by Grey for MTV remind that sex is no accident. (The “sex” sound effect is particularly good.)”
A well-executed reminder of how good MTV’s advertising used to be.
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SKate Bush
A tumblr dedicated to pictures of the British musician Kate Bush “skateboarding”. It had to be done.
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Garbage Pail Kids Meets Star Wars
via
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Iggy Pop Talks About Neu! Drummer Klaus Dinger
Well said…and while drilling a coconut no less!
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Rare Music Video For Klaus Nomi's "Falling in Love...
Bizarre.
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1-900-490-FREAK
If you only watch one video for the rest of the day, please let it be this one. (via TWBE)
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Full Red Band Trailer for Tim and Eric's "Billion...
This is either going to be AMAZING or the biggest piece of shit EVER.
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They Called Him...
Watch the classic AI film D.A.R.Y.L. from 1985.