Queen’s Bohemiam Rhapsody [8Core]

Gizmodo had this earlier in the weekend, so chances are you’ve seen it already – if you haven’t, you deserve to take a six minute break and revel in the pure geekery here.

Before you even say anything about the slightly out of tune nature of some of the segments, heed the “conductor’s” warning:

the scanner and floppy drive are not musical instruments. These are mechancial devices whose frequencies tend to drift and can cause some notes to be out of tune.

Likely, if you’re anything like me, you’ll forget by the end of the clip that these are things not designed to be instruments… just sounds coming out in pretty decent harmony.

Stickman Exodus

Stickman Exodus, Ep. 1: Hangman

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This was in the Online Film category for the webby ballot that i featured yesterday. Aside from The Website is Down, it was the only thing that i found remotely entertaining enough to feature here.

Currently there are six episodes in the series, and I’m showcasing the first so you can get an idea of the irreverent  humor involved.

Video is NSFW due to language, you’ve been warned.

The Webby’s short list….Website Category!

The Webby Awards, the Oscars for the internet, are coming up soon and Mark took the time to send me a heads up regarding the event.

Today the nominees were announced and I've been piling through some of them trying to find some standouts for all of you to check out.

A personal favorite of mine is in the Weird category on the Website ballot. Failblog.org is a website specializing in “Fails”, or pictures of hilariously stupid things with quick two word captions to convey resonance. I have wasted countless hours rolling through pictures and video offered by this site. I encourage everyone to check it out

Another decent catch is Flock.com in the Social Networking category on the Website Ballot. According to the website, Flock touts itself as a variant of Firefox that effortlessly connects you to all your favorite social networking sites via the browsers GUI. Built in publishers for sites like Twitter and Blogger are the draw here.

On the Entertainment side, Destructoid and The Escapist are nominated in the Games-Related category. Destructoid is full of witty banter and unique and engaging feature articles, and the sheer amount of specialized content coming from The Escapist is definitely worth applauding. If I spent anymore time watching Zero Punctuation, I’d be maniacal, cynical, and I’d never get anything done.

 

Tomorrow ill try and get some stuff up from the Online Video and Film Category of the Webby Ballot.

And Now For Something Completely Different [Investigative Journalism]

This is a recommended media blog, and that includes journalism.  One of the ideas we had when we started this blog was to do media criticisms, calling out motards in the press that get it consistently wrong.

But somehow, and this surprises me as much as anyone, a blog that I’m supposedly in charge of is taking on a mostly positive tone. 

This post is no exception – what is exceptional is that I’m pointing to the best bit of investigative journalism I’ve seen in some time – and it’s coming from a fairly unknown blog entitled “Music Machinery,” by Paul Lamere.

The post, entitled “Inside the precision hack,” looks delves into great detail via first hand reports how 4chan rigged Time’s poll to decide the most influential people in “government, science, technology and the arts.”

 

It’s definitely worth reading.

Go check it out.

Recomedia…The First Album you will purchase this year.

Manchester Orchestra – “The Only One”

This is the first video of an 11 part series of video’s by a band called Manchester Orchestra. And quite frankly it sounds amazing.

Mean Everything to Nothing is the title of the album to be released by the band on April 21st.

When i heard this just a few moments ago, i knew i had to post it to Recomedia. This is definitely something you want to check out.

Xbox 360….The Errors Continue!

Not content with frustrating customers over the RRoD, or Red Ring of Death, a common problem found when general hardware failures brick an Xbox 360 gaming console. Now Microsoft have expanded the warranty on so called E 47 Errors. Apparently the console has “general hardware failure that is associated with three flashing red lights error on the console.”

I had a similar problem and i actually looked up various technical manuals and ripped open my 360 to repair it. Realizing that it was nothing more than thermal expansion and a fault in the securing of screws in and around the GPU of the device, i fixed the issue within a day or two. The only problem i had was that i bought it used, so the offending company and Microsoft didnt see a reason to cover my console under warranty….leaving me to do the dirty work myself.

You would think after thousands of hardware issues that someone would have fixed these specifications on the production side. Apparently consoles are shipping out with more advanced chips than those at launch, making the errors less frequent, but in this day and age it would seem to be a more viable option to just fix the issue all together.

If you are experiencing an E47 error, please visit the Microsoft Xbox 360 support site for more details on what you can do to correct this issue.

We Didn’t Start the Flamewar [Your a Fag]

John and I were chatting about the finer points of URL shorteners this afternoon, and he asked me if I had seen this yet.

I hadn’t.  I have now. And now you need to see it.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.