Pages Tagged “Video”
Tech Tips
- Fedora 7 Problems With Glint Video Driver (Obsolete) Grab the Live CD first and make sure that all your hardware works properly. If not, see if the fix is available before you actually upgrade.
Les Misérables
- I Watched Three Les Mis Parodies Last Night A Youtube binge got me watching Sesame Street's Les Mousserables, Animaniacs' Les Miseranimals, Forbidden Broadway's extended take(that), and On My Phone.
- “One Day More” - Les Mistranslated One Day More, run through Google Translate a few times back and forth, then sung. The whole Google Translate Sings series on YouTube is worth checking out.
- “On My Own,” Mis-translated Google Translate Sings returns to Les Misérables with On My Own, run through several layers of machine translation with hilarious results.
- Lobster Jean Valjean?!? 🤪 Saturday Night Live's sketch with Jean Valjean as a singing lobster is utterly bizarre. And it gets stranger as it goes along
Blog Posts
- Ads Should Not *Break* Streaming Video
After finishing season one of Leverage on Netflix, we’ve started watching season two on TNT’s website. Netflix’s streaming video has been great, and TNT’s has been decent enough aside from dropping out of full-screen for commercials…until yesterday. Last night, while watching “The Order 23 Job” on our MacBook, we got to the final commercial break […]
- Skipper Dan
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s song “Skipper Dan” has been stuck in my head on-and-off all weekend. Living near Disneyland makes it that much more funny.
- Video Linkblogging: Mac vs. PC
Found this fun short movie: Mac vs. PC. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. It’s been done a million times. But how many times have the Mac and PC been Transformers? There’s a strong element of Terminator in there, as well. (via Major Spoilers, though it apparently hit Digg a week ago)
- Links: Safety Last
Forklift Driver Klaus (a.k.a. Staplerfahrer Klaus)- a parody of work safety films in which a forklift driver blunders through his first day on the job, maiming fellow employees left and right. German with English subtitles. (via TV Tropes: Scare Em Straight) And, on a more serious note, the Internet Storm Center is reporting on people […]
- Blockbuster vs. Local Video Store
I love Netflix. I love their selection. I love being able to just make a list of movies I’ve been meaning to watch, and see them show up one by one. But the queue model doesn’t work so well when you want to watch a specific movie now. That’s where you need a retail store, […]