Sir Galahad, Josh Ritter

Pretty awesome.

Marian Call (The Nerd Anthem).

Sometimes I forget that awesome things are not universally known. I must show them to my lurkers who don't exist, but I don't hold that against any of you. In fact, you're like gods among men in that respect.*

*If you followed that logic, have a cookie**.

** I haz cookie but I eated it? Sorry, no actual cookies will be given. Though, this is about as awesome as having a cookie.

Ray Bradbury, Awesome²

The video F*ck Me Ray Bradbury is awesome. But, what is awesome²? Is it knowing that holding alt and typing 0-1-7-8 makes a ² symbol? No, it's Ray Bradbury watching F*ck Me Ray Bradbury:

Today is his birthday. August 22nd.

Music Videos for the Deaf.

Well that's a clever idea, also awesome.

Dr. Horrible Commentary.

I swear I should be docked a lot of geek cred for barely finding this now. There's a musical commentary for Dr. Horrible.








There's like 14 of them and they apparently sync with the video, but I'm not sure on that last part.

Jesus Loves Me.

Ah, godless parodies. They are great.

Tim Minchin: Christmas, Drinking White Wine in the Sun

Heard it before, but it's making the rounds again.

You gotta serve somebody?

There are a few great musical replies to nonsense, this is one of them.

The Bear Necessities

Great Lyrics: Book of Love

The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb

That's one of my favorite lyrics ever. I'm sure it'll fade and no longer be true shortly.

Signs of the Apocalypse...

College Humor actually made something funny...

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907543

We didn't start the flame war.

Merry F'ing Christmas!

Merry Fucking Christmas

Tim Minchin: Not Perfect

I love this song.

Alison Crowe: Hallelujah

LHC rap.

Awesome.

(Via Pharyngula)

Understanding Palin.

* -- Please note nothing about this post is meant to be pejorative. I actually really like that song. Redneck pride has actually been coming up a lot in recent years. I don't like Palin, and figure this might put her in better light than she deserves. I'm pissed that all my politics talk about policy debates and national conventions got turned into the Jerry Springer show upon the unvetted whim of somebody who crassly thinks that women really wanted to vote for just some woman on a presidential ticket (if it was that simple Kathleen Sebelius might have got the Dem's nod, but they actually wanted Clinton herself).

The Dandy Warhols - I Am A Scientist

Ambitious?

Wired's zine has an article which is titled "Ambitious California Emissions Plan Could Boost Economy, Chart National Policy."

Sounds promising?

The state presented its plan Thursday morning to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by about 30 percent by 2020.

Oh, dear.

I know there's just no pleasing me. Unless you're going to enact a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 100% by 1998, you're not doing enough to prevent a series of unmitigated disasters. 30% by 2020? Is that a fricking joke? Seriously we need to go Carbon Negative about now to spare ourselves any real massive pain.

*sigh*

Youtube Videos Play/Stop In 2 Seconds

Such is the world today with google that people who understand that problems exist are apt to simply type into google the important bit of information about their problem and call up a nice page like this to find out why exactly with Firefox and Flash their embedded Youtube videos play for about two seconds without sound before stopping. Even with the download itself finishing and refusing to show you the video. It did it here and there in my previous version of Firefox but upgrading to Firefox 3.0 and clearing out the profile and starting from scratch it should have corrected if it was my problem.

It wasn't.

The problem is with Flash 9.0.115.0 and the solution is downgrading:

Uninstall the current version you have installed get a copy of 9.0.47.0 and watch videos again.

The instruction for uninstalling are a bit draconian (get uninstaller, run it in the command line! ZOMG!) but required.

To celebrate... here's Hey There Delilah (are you suppose to italicize music video names?). Google visitors coming in to see if there's a solution to your problem... don't you wish you could play this?

I'm scared enough, you can steal my booty.

You are a pirate!