This would have been a better than average YouTube video in 2007…

It was an instant classic in 1998.

Behold… Disco Lando vs. Godzilla.

“Blessed with great intelligence and strength, but cursed with vanity.”

“AOL Sucks” - Sir Winston Churchill

I hate when an inferior product dominates the market just because it has an established userbase. Case in point, AOL Instant Messenger. AOL Sucks. You know this, I know this. And as loathe as I am (was) to use their products, lets face it… everyone I wanted to talk to was on AOL or AIM. Enter Meebo. I can log in on AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, or any other 2-bit chat client… all from a tab in my browser. I don’t have to download anything? Even better. I originally feared a javascript application emulating draggable ‘windows’ and such would be pretty hokey, but it’s actually quite solid. Check it out.

NIKOLA WOULD BE PROUD
An Electric Car that could kick your ass, go 0-60 in 4 seconds, and has a 300 mile range, too. Wow. Got a chance to see one of these in person recently. Hey Tesla, how about making one for the regular joes that goes 0-60 in a modest 7 seconds, seats 4, and costs $25,000?

iTunes, once the populist darling of the digital music world has gotten too big for its britches. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking for a replacement. Here are my conditions:

• Be Lean. Run fast, even on shitty computers. Don’t slow my computer down, don’t clutter my screen unless its necessary, certainly not with ads or provocations to buy things. *shudder*
• Be Well Designed. Be able to sort by album, artist, track, etc. I shouldn’t even have to ask for this by now…
• Be Cross Platform. Run on PCs and Macs. ‘Nuff said.
• Work with CDs. Be able to rip CDs and burn them. And not in your own bullshit proprietary format (I’m looking at you, Windows Media Player). I’m talking Mp3s, here.
• Work With Mp3 Players. Preferably iPods and all drag/drop players.

Is this too much to ask for? I don’t think so. Songbird seems like it might be on its way. It certainly looks nice, and the ability to download directly from mp3 blogs is cool… but I think its going to fail my ‘be lean’ requirement. It took up 1.5x as much ram as iTunes does… but I won’t complain too much, since this is only a ‘developer preview’ release. (Is version ‘0.2.1 Developer Preview’ too early to have your own line of hip t-shirts and icons? Hell no!) I await a savior from the bloated behemoth that is iTunes. Anyone have any thoughts? Suggestions for alternatives? I’m open to anything at this point-

Soon to be all over YouTube, Google Video, Blip.tv, and any other internet media outlet, an admittedly unlikely collaboration between Zhukov Video and Ctown Productions-

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Wow. Somehow, we’re back. And things are quite a bit different. There’ll be lots of new stuff here, now. I promise. For real, this time. Please let me know if you find anything broken.

Wo there! We’re currently experiencing technical difficulties. Right now, the goal is for the site to remain up for a day. Goodluck and godspeed.

Flash Games on the way. In the meantime, some DVD Design Samples:

Ever wish you could download a video from YouTube? A useful tool I came across: iTube lets you plug in a URL of a YouTube page and automatically download the video to your hard drive as an MPEG.

I never knew Steve Irwin was so loved and respected. So loved that even the Stingray Wikipedia entry has been held hostage by rabid Irwin worshippers. And so the information war begins…

Finally, watch Iran’s Iron Sheik go nuts- and be glad he’s on our side now!

So, I’m addicted to watching the headbutt heard round the world. Apart from what you think of Zidane’s headbutt or who you were rooting for in the World Cup, does anyone else think Zidane’s ‘apology’ was exceedingly lame? Come on, who still gets enraged by generic ‘your mama’ insults these days? (And generic they must have been if Materazzi doesn’t personally know Zidane’s mother…)

On the option of simply walking away from the insults, Zidane absurdly claims that he could not walk away “because it would mean that [Materazzi] was right to say all that.” On the contrary, if Materazzi’s objective was to infuriate an opponent and get him kicked out of the game, didn’t he succeed brilliantly? Wasn’t he right to say ‘all that?’ Walking away would have been the only way to make it futile for Materazzi to try to provoke an opponent with verbal taunts. In addition, to claim that someone’s insults might be perceived as true unless one responds with violence is a 4th grade reaction at best.

I take issue with ‘apologies’ that also include the clause ‘I would do it all again.’ You aren’t really very ’sorry’ for your actions, then, eh?