I hate the tv

Youtube, today I realized, contains a plethora of funny live news outtakes. Whether its the fox news perverts slipping up or rowdy bystanders (ahahaha) harassing the reporters…there’s a lot of giggles to be had.

And of course, let’s not forget about these pre-YouTube classics: QVC and grapes

Dorks have created a perfect Checkers playing computer named Chinook. You can apparently play against it here, though at the time of this writing, its server is slammed into submission.

” The proof required analyzing 500 billion billion checkers positions — 5 x 10²⁰ — a computational process that began in 1989 and has been running on hundreds of processors almost continuously since.”
…Well I’ll be damned.

(thx salon.com)

The one who calls himself Matt, apparantly, has created a Bee Gees tribute album, available for free mp3 download. “Hey” as performed by Prince is especially good:

Who says the RIAA needs to be involved to get your jam on.

Ahahhaa

I don’t know WHAT this is; but it’s pretty fun. The end is amazing.

update 3/8/2008: the video was removed from gootube. Here’s some information on this brilliant animation.

When you do a search now for “Sasha Cohen” you get a bunch of results for some girl who aparantly won a gold medal in the 2k6 olympics. The REAL Sasha Cohen, in my opinion, is this guy (interviewed by Robert Siegel on NPR). He brought us Borat, Ali-G, Bruno, and other characters. He rules.

Not necessarily work safe.  Mom,  please don’t click on this link that I randomly ran into this via Google Images searching for the Nokia 770. Awesome.

To read up on the history of goatse check it’s wikipedia article.

Over at Improv Everywhere they’ve got the details.  And pictures on Flickr.  Thanks pevo.

Doing some perl research and found a very nice use of the Finance::Quote module…..this:

They’re 8 foot tall puppets which mimic the movement of the stock market in realtime. They were part of burning man 2000.

I caught this article on the inq and felt obliged to chime in as someone who is often grumpy:

Happy HDW,

I’m sure you, I, and a bunch of other Inq readers are in good company this week. Besides AMD finally getting some recognition for their nice chips, what else is going right?

We’ve still got bush, still got a war, tech job industry in the US is still pretty lame, morgage rates are on the rise, oil at all time high, (bullshit) talk of preeminent nuke strike on iran, hamas came to power, It’s hot and perhaps hurricane season this year will be another doozie…not to mention all those Louisiana license plates I keep seeing (in texas and when I was in CO last week).

Eh fuck it,
=)
Glen.
ihatethetv.com

(feel free to print any of this and my name, then again it’s probably a pile of shit not worthy of reading)

Snip snip:

“KERA-TV in Dallas was the first PBS station to broadcast Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and it was the Pythons’ first stop in the US after the premier of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Los Angeles in 1975. This interview footage first aired live on KERA that year, and hasn’t been seen by the public since. It was discovered on an old reel that had been saved by an engineer, and as you can see, it cuts off after about 14 minutes… the engineer taped over the rest. It’s a look at the group being candidly questioned by fans at the peak of their fame and creative powers.”

Video can be seen here.

There’s a good few questions one covering censorship in America vs the UK.

Found through boingboing. Credits from y/t: ” Provided by The Sound of Young America, a public radio show about things that are awesome. On the web at http://www.maximumfun.org ; clip is downloadable at http://tsoya.blogspot.com“