Toons to watch
And more stuff to watch:
- Ten seasons of South Park,
- Four seasons of Family Guy,
- The 10 Best Will Ferrell Skits from Saturday Night Live. My favourite:
Dale Sturtevant ‘Dissing Your Dog’Neil Diamond.
Just remember to eat.
And more stuff to watch:
Just remember to eat.
Bank Holidays can be pretty dull, so here are a whole truck load of different videos that I’ve been meaning to post for a while.
Someone has put together a fantastic list of 1980s music videos on YouTube. Little tip: if you’ve got a few 30-something friends staying, fire this site up when you stagger back from the pub. Last bank holiday I had Tracker, Ralph, and Troy here, and we were laughing our arses off into the early hours with some of the videos. To whet your appetite, here’s a little taster of the range on offer:
If you prefer a bit of 70s music, then how about this brilliant Stevie Wonder performance of Superstition on Sesame Street? Or Lynyrd Skynyrd playing Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama in Oakland in 1977 (The Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd has been my album of the summer!)? Finally Bill Withers performing Ain’t No Sunshine (such a lovely, lovely song, beautifully performed - and with Presuming Ed from Withnail & I on the drums) and Curtis Mayfield doing Keep On Keeping On.
For all-round entertainment, there’s no one greater than William Shatner. Of course he’s mainly known for his manly wrestling with aliens in quarries, and for slapping down bad guys in TJ Hooker, but there is so much more to the man.
For example, watch the trailer for Shatner’s 1965 film Incubus; possibly the only movie ever made where all the spoken dialogue is in Esperanto.
Or his informal-yet-informative commercial for the Commodore Vic20.
And then there’s Shatner’s musical talents:
If you’re using Firefox, install the VideoDownloader Firefox Extension. Then, once you’re on the Google Video or YouTube page with a video you want to save, click the icon in the bottom right of your browser chrome. In the window that appears, right-click on the ‘Download Link’ icon, and hit ‘Save Link As…’. The video will be saved as [page_name].htm - simply rename it as {whatever].flv (Flash video). You can then watch it with VLC player (the best all-round media player), or convert it to a different format with a program like Super ©.
Bit of a spanner in the works as far as the redesign of World of Badger is concerned; I had the bright new colour scheme and layout done, but made the mistake of using the same colours in a mock-up when showing a client some ideas for their new site. I didn’t think for a minute they’d actually go for such daring colours — just a case of showing them something conservative and something a bit funky, and expecting them to pick a look in between the two — but fair play to them, they liked the super-colourful version. So now I’ve got to come up with a new design for this site…
Still tinkering with the starter motor, but I’ve got time for a quick hand-cranked post: Legofesto’s take on Abu Grahib. Very effective. (via)