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a thousand words

A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.

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Wait, Barack and Michelle do WHAT?

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Best thing I’ve seen this week

It’s late and I’m really effing tired but I just had to post this because it had me ROFLMAO so much. It’s Star Wars, as told by someone who’s only ever seen little bits of the movies… Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo. via Boing Boing

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Emmet Otter ain’t got nothin’ on Harry Simmon

On New Year’s Eve, my Uncle Harry sat down with the Simmon cousins in the midst of Simmstock 2009 to play jug on the Louden Wainright song, “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road.” Before we began, he treated us to his world-famous rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” for which ABC News dubbed [...]

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Happy New Year from Dayva & Neil

I was out of town when the email with this link got sent out so this is a little late. Enjoy…

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The deep woods of censorship

[Full disclosure: I am on the board of the Vermont ACLU, but my remarks on this blog do not necessarily represent the views of the Vermont ACLU or it's membership -- these are my own, personal thoughts on these matters.] When I was on the VCAM board of directors, we spent a great deal of [...]

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Netflix watch-instantly service needs to cook a little longer

[UPDATE: using Safari 3.2.1 seems to have solved my Netflix problem. I just watched Word Wars. It still won't load the whole film and it still stops loading if the tab isn't active, but the browser is better at keeping the pre-loaded movie just ahead of where I am in viewing it.] Ever since the [...]

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Living sketches

Artist and Candleblog pal Kasten Searles has put this fun little Japanese hairstyle-testing gizmo to awesome and creepy effect using her own sketches. Check these out…

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It’s (November) Time

Back before Arthur Adams moved out to San Francisco to seek his fame and fortune, he made and played music here in Vermont. One of my favorite tunes he used to sing was called “It’s Time.” Well Arthur has been badgering me to submit a video for the Blammos November project and it just so [...]

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Blammos is doing November (again)!

Once again, San Francisco-based indy pop sensation, Blammos, is spending the month of November making music videos. In fact, the band is making and posting a new video every single day this month. They did this same thing last November and from what I’ve seen, this year’s crop of indy YouTube gems is even better [...]

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