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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/muppets-singing-quee.html

...wow.

Pretty good choice of integrating existing tracks from the original recording and using original material.

The 1080p version looks pretty good full-screen, too, which is a nice change for YouTube videos.

My one regret is ( spoileriffic. )

in a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014

There are other, longer versions of this on YouTube (including
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuFJoexdlU, which involves someone rocking a
Wagner tuba) but in this one you can actually hear the choir and get
closeups of them.

This would be pretty surreal even without the band's hairdos (if that
is the word) and glasses.

*quietly boggles*

This one's for you, fdmts:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/02/damien-walters-2009.html

I have to say that's one of the most physically impressive gymnastic exhibitions that I've ever seen.

I mean, _daaaaaaaamn_.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/20/revealed-where-babie.html

That's not quite how I remember it, but maybe I was paying attention to the wrong things again.

Looking forward to showing this to Corwin. :)

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/03/10/wozniak-dances.html

AKA "your big chance to see The Woz dance the cha-cha, wearing a pink feather boa".

Clearly the man is having a lot of fun out there.

As a fan (if not a rabid one) of a number of things Joss, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon of people talking about The Latest Internet Phenom, http://www.drhorrible.com.

The singing was pretty good, if not spectacular. It reminded me (in terms of quality and of style) quite a lot of the musical Buffy episode, which is what I expected.

The sets and special effects looked kind of cheesy.

The writing was good, and very Joss.

I was amused by just how much Dr. Horrible's lab coat looks like my fencing jacket (at least around the upper body/shoulders).

( Here there be spoilers. )

So, you know, overall...eh. It was OK. If there were new 'episodes', I'd probably watch them to see if Joss could manage to make it good, but I wouldn't place a high priority on it.

I found this a couple of years ago and then lost it again; I just ran across it again. It makes me happy, so I'm posting it here so that I can find it again.

http://www.dooku.net

Click on the white rectangle a few times. Some of the musical accompaniment works better than others...but there aren't any particularly bad ones. Enjoy.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/14/countdown-special-comment-to-president-bush-shut-the-hell-up/

No, really.

(This was prompted by Bush's recent comment to the effect that he'd given up golf as something he shouldn't be playing while we're at war. Yes, that's right: his noble sacrifice was giving up golf.

Except that he apparently lied about even doing that.)

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/the_prosody_of_itaking_the_hobbits_i/

Really, what else is there to say?

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI
(as the reference I saw said, "the title is a come-on".)

and the follow-up (you can just watch the latter, it is essentially a re-do of the original which has companion videos that explore the issues in much more detail):

How It All Ends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg

I haven't watched the companion videos yet. One potential hole that I can spot with the reasoning--which he may have covered--is that it's possible that we could take decisive action and _still_ get completely screwed by climate change. It's even possible that taking decisive action could cause things to get worse than they would have otherwise. I personally consider these to be low-probability possibilities...but they should be explicitly acknowledged.

The other possibility that's worth mentioning is that taking action can help us to solve other problems than "just" the consequences of climate change (e.g., unfortunate dependencies on unstable countries). Then again, he did say he was simplifying to the worst case.

Anyway, it's worth at least checking out the first link.