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Things 66: ChatRoulette piano, Tube Door Challenge, Free Will
(Originally sent March 2010, maybe)
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ChatRoulette is a fascinating site whose mission is simply to connect you to a random person to video chat with. This is just as good and bad an idea as it sounds. I don’t recommend visiting (particularly if you have a webcam active as it will attempt to throw you into [...]
Things 65: Trololo, Animation Analysis, Numerical Keyboards
(Originally sent March 2010, maybe)
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What sort of old TV clip would spawn a dedicated site whose main purpose is simply to play it on loop? (Sound is essential)
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I did a bit of analysis on the data that went into Disney’s decision to give up on 2D animation, including the correlation between how good a film [...]
Things 64: Videoshop, Censorship, Shirky on Newspapers
(Originally sent February 2010, maybe)
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The use of Photoshop to ‘enhance’ imagery of models is now well-known. I suspect the more sophisticated use of similar tools in videos is much less well-known.
Bonus video
This seems to be everyone’s favourite ad right now:
Puzzle
While walking somewhere on a route that takes you past a lot of cars, you have [...]
Things 63: Avalanche, The Universe, Russian Ablum Covers
(Originally sent December 2009, maybe)
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This is what it looks like to cause an avalanche, get buried in it, struggle to breathe for four long minutes, and then get dug out. Now that’s what I call reality television.
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An awesome bit of flash to help you comprehend the scale of everything in the universe. I recommend zooming [...]