Paris loses out: Hilton fortune pledged to charity
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion fortune to charity.
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So you’re in charge of planning the bachelorette party…
For free bachelorette party ideas, advice, games to play and recipes, you have come to the right place. For over seven years, Bachelorette.com has met the needs of bachelorette party planners. Our team of experts updates this page with useful and easy-to-prepare bachelorette party ideas.
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SNL Uncensored: A Special Christmas Box
Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin
Timberlake and Andy Samberg that originally aired on December 16, 2006.
AKA as “Dick in a Box”.
Not safe for work.
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1961. The Alvin Show
The Alvin Show, 1961. The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late). The Witch Doctor, Pop Goes The Weasel, Chipmunk Fun and The Alvin Twist
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This list will eat itself.
Without further ado, here’s a quick compilation of some of the most interesting ‘Best of 2007′ lists I’ve come across during the frantic media recap of ‘What Was in 07′, before the manic, mad dash to xmas seasonal insanity, and the consequent post-holiday crash into 2008:
- Best of 2007 Lists (the definitive meta-list by Fimoculous)
- Master List of Online “Best of 2007″ Music Lists (a meta-music list by LargeheartedBoy)
- Updates to the Master List of Online “Best of 2007″ Music Lists (updates to #2 by LargeheartedBoy)
- 40 Best Raps of 2007 (top hip-hop tracks by CocaineBlunts)
- 15 Best Candies of 2007 (delish sugar treats by CandyAddict)
- 50 Best Websites of 2007 (multiple categories list by Time & – oh look – who’s a top news site?)
- 30 Best Albums of 2007 (top rated by the critics and aggregated by Metacritic)
- 25 Best Careers of 2007 (so choose wisely, my friends, by BizTech)
- Most Hated Companies of 2007 (the most widely & heavily criticized, by BloggingStocks)
- 100 Best Products of 2007 (because there can never be enough products, a list by PC World)
- 22 Best Music Videos (some silly choices by MusicForKidsWhoCan’tReadGood)
- 25 Best Books of the Year (fiction, non-fiction and more by Publishers Weekly)
- 100 Best Films of 2007 (a mix of new and re-releases by TimesOnline)
- 18 Best American Hospitals of 2007 (a incredibly paradoxical list by USNews)
- Best Global Brands of 2007 (aka the biggest brands in the world, by Interbrand)
- Best of NYC 2007 (best of the Big Apple, by the VillageVoice)
- Best Biblical Books of 2007 (a “completely objective” book list by BiblicalFoundations)
- America’s Best Restroom of 2007 (congrats to Jungle Jim’s, by ABR)
- Best Parks of 2007 (for the adventure seekers, by National Geographic)
- Best Industrial Design Products of 2007 (with slick imagery by RedDot)
- Top 10 Depression Blogs of 2007 (a useful, if sombre, list by PsychCentral)
- 2007 China Best Call Centre (the best operators ‘who will be with you shortly’ by CallCentres)
- Top 100 Luxury Blogs of 2007 (an elite assortment by International Listings)
- Best of What’s New in 2007 (products, inventions, and gadgetry compiled by PopularScience)
- Top 60 Japanese Buzzwords of 2007 (vernacular awesomeness by PinkTentacle)
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Top tech ads not necessarily seen on TV in 2007
Here is an end-of-year list of ads that reflect DIY inspiration, a geek sensibility or simply had a sense of humor tuned to the tech world. There’s some irony in this list of somewhat traditional TV ads spots. I saw only one or two of these ads on TV. All of the ads are found on YouTube and I’ve found most of them because someone sent me a link. So I’ll call this a list of:
Top Tech Ads Not Necessarily Seen on TV in 2007.
John Hodgeman’s Apple ads. These ads continue to be great. It’s ironic that Apple’s stand-in standup is the straight man to Hodgeman — the PC as bumbling Lou Costello. The “Don’t Give Up on Vista” ads are funny, especially the one with the presidential podium. Apple.com features an animated version of the ad in the spirit of the old Rudolph the Reindeer Christmas TV shows. Apple Vista Ad 1 Hodgeman at the Podium Ad
I’m a Wii — a clone of the Apple ads but this ad suggests that a game platform can be more fun. It does make me really want to Wii, I mean, want a Wii. The Wii Ad
The JC Penny “Aviator” ad. A nerdy young girl gets a crazy idea — to build a rocket to take her to the North Pole. If you can imagine it, you can make it. JC Penny Aviator Ad
The Dell ad campaign “Yours is Here” in particular, the ad with the “Watch Us Work It” by DEVO soundtrack. Wrenchs and more…makes you wanna make something. Dell’s DEVO ad
Will it Blend iPhone — Kind of an anti-ad. This iPhone carbonizer reminds us soberly that all gadgets turn to dust. iPhone in a blender.
Honda’s The Cog ad — Disassemble a Honda Accord and use all the parts to make up a very clever Rube Goldberg contraption. It’s a symphony of motion that’s watchable over and over. Honda’s Cog ad
HP’s “Eternal Dreamer” ad featuring Michael Gondry — a fluid piece that moves creatively between the physical and virtual world, between ideas and reality. I like this ad much better than HP’s Gwen Stefani campaign. HP’s Eternal Dreamer
Halo 3 “Believe” ad — This ads reminds us how we grew up playing with toy soldiers — green army men and mounds of dirt. The melancholy soundtrack makes you think you’re watching a “Greatest Generation” documentary. Halo 3 Believe
Assassin’s Creed ads – Beautiful, stylish, subversive re-imagining of the time of the Crusades. Hidden daggers and conspiratorial history. I wish this were movie-length. Ad for Assassin’s Creed Behind the Scenes Promo
Coca Cola “What Goes Around Comes Around” ad — a nasty Grand Theft Auto video turns sweet and syrupy. Each one of us can make the world better. Coca Cola Ad
Here are several videos that look into the advertising industry itself (as awful as sausage-making). The first is a British satire on ad agencies called Truth in Advertising. (I want to start using the term “media wankers.”) There’s also “The Breakup,” a Microsoft-produced video featuring an arrogant advertiser as the lover and a fed-up consumer as the beloved.
Finally, if you want a over-the-top spoof of overindulgence, check out “Consumerism: The Musical.”
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Old Soviet Christmas cards
Here’s a four page gallery of space age Christmas cards from Soviet Russia. They’re fantastic!.
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National Geographic on giant human hoax
Five years ago, “IronKite” submitted this wonderful photo illustration to a Worth1000.com Photoshop contest on the theme of “Archaeological Anomalies.” The powerful picture was transformed into an Internet urban legend about the National Geographic Society’s discovery of the remains of giant humans in India. Several media outlets reported the story as fact. To this day, the National Geographic Society continues to receive international inquiries about this race of giants. National Geographic News reports on the myth:
(One) story went on to say the discovery was made by a “National Geographic Team (India Division) with support from the Indian Army since the area comes under jurisdiction of the Army.”
The account added that the team also found tablets with inscriptions that suggest the giant belonged to a race of superhumans that are mentioned in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic poem from about 200 B.C…
Variations of the giant photo hoax include alleged discovery of a 60- to 80-foot long (18- to 24-meter) human skeleton in Saudi Arabia. In one popular take, which likewise first surfaced in 2004, an oil-exploration team is said to have made the find.
Here the skeleton is held up as evidence of giants mentioned in Islamic, rather than Hindu, scriptures.
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Life Imitates Satire
In the increasingly surreal battle between the RIAA and music listeners, reality and satire can be hard to discern
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Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands.
Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands. Don’t be that Fifth Guy. While you’re at it, cover your mouth when you cough and stay home when you’re sick. Really, how many times do we have to tell you? Wash. Your. Hands. Seriously.
Who’s the Fifth Guy? “The Florida Department of Health set out to prepare people for the potential of a flu pandemic, but they faced a tough challenge: No pandemic on the horizon … Then they built the campaign around what does matter to people: Fitting in.”*
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Put Wet Towels On The Sensor
How to wash your hands and ride the elevators in the new New York Times Building.
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Seven Girlie Things That Men Would Have Fun Doing
An amusing list of activities which are normally associated with women, but that men would enjoy.
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Jackass 2.5 to be released online first
Sequel to the two-time box office hit, Jackass 2.5, will skip multiplexes entirely
and be distributed online first. Perhaps this will herald a new age of online-first movie distribution?
Please pardon the dust, but, as you can see, Jackassworld.com is indeed
open during construction. This is where you will eventually be able to
come and, not only find all of your Jackass needs, but a lot of new
stuff as well. “Growing the brand,” was, I think, the phrase they used?
So, while there will be no shortage of dudes kicking each other in the
balls just like in the old days, we’ve got a whole butt load of new
shit planned for your face on this site in the near future. But this
is-and this is what they told us-only the “soft launch.” (Yeah, we kind
of giggled when they said that too.)
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The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in
our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is
hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes
the connections between a huge number of environmental and social
issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just
world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may
change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Written and presented by Annie Leonard; produced by Free Range Studios.
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Net.Art Generator
The net.art generator automatically produces net.art on demand.
This version of the net.art generator creates images. The resulting
image emerges as a collage of a number of images which have been
collected on the WWW in relation to the ‘title’ you have chosen. The
original material is processed in 12-14 randomly chosen and combined
steps.
The net.art generator was programmed by Panos Galanis from IAP GmbH,
Hamburg, and was a commission by the Volksfürsorge art collection…
Have fun and become a net.artist!
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How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight?
This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old
children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical
prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of
your moral compass. Here are the ground rules:
* You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court
* There are no weapons or foreign objects
* Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin)
* The children are merciless and will show no fear
* If a child is knocked unconscious, he is “out.” The same goes for you.
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You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die!
Teacher Barricades Herself Inside Classroom After Hearing ‘Welcome To The Jungle‘
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Gissa job la? Go on, I can do that. Gissa job?
During the latter half of the twentieth century, Liverpool writers made
an enormous contribution to television drama. Writers like Willy Russell and Jimmy McGovern have been hugely influential. But the daddy of them all was unarguably Alan Bleasdale,
whose television dramas dominated our screens during the latter half of
the 20th century in a manner that was unmatched by anybody besides the
late Dennis Potter.
Though many of his television dramas were to win praise and awards, it was his two series, Boys from the Blackstuff, an examination of the lot of the Liverpudlian working class under Thatcherism, and GBH, which turned his gaze onto the local political scene — then dominated by the Trotskyite Militant Tendency
— that really cemented his reputation as one of the top three British
television dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Now you can find large parts of both Boys from the Blackstuff and GBH on YouTube.
Quality viewing for Telly Friday.
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Essential Video Resources
Of particular interest were
1)A Quick Guide to Digital Video Resolution and Aspect Ratio Conversions
2)the DV FAQ
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Do Do … DoDoDo … Do Do … DoDoDo
Merry Christmas, Kids! Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you still might enjoy this fun bit of flash goodness.
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A Zen Mind.
The Zen Mind – An Introduction. A Day in the Life of a Zen Monk. Zazen – A Guide to Sitting. Interview with a Zen Buddhist Priest.
RobDurdle.com 
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