How ironic that I would find this video in YouTube (it was recommended to me, lol). Everyone knows how embedded google is in our everyday lives from google maps, to gmail, and more – but watch this video and learn how MUCH MORE google is trying to get into your personal lives (and business!). Did you know they want your DNA and health records?! It probably won’t stop me from using google anymore, but this is a REALLY eye opening video!
This is hilarious – these dudes make a rocket out of bacon! That’s right – a flying model rocket out of bacon (and sausage). Then they test it and see if it can fly! Do you think it works? Watch the video to find out…lol.
Has YouTube finally been caught allowing copyrighted content? This post on XBiz made me think so. In the major lawsuit Viacom has against YouTube (in a case that’s dragged on for years now) they saw some online reports how show that YouTube has been exposed as having emails indicating they were ignoring some copyrighted content. YouTube’s case all along has been “there’s so much content we can’t be expected to police it all”. Sure they can’t. As the article also points out, YouTube has always seemed to have the ability to remove adult content with surgical precision within minutes – but they can’t find music videos or the latest clips from Lost or The Tonight show? They can find boobs but not Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
The thing I find funniest about this is what kind of battle this is. Every media company should strike a deal with YouTube and just license that shit for public viewing and be done with it. It’s just pissing match now, because it’s not about “copyrighted content” or “pirated video” at all. It’s about where the videos are shown, and who benefits from it. I mean, the companies partnered with Hulu.com have an “exclusive arrangement” and won’t be allowed to also strike a deal on YouTube.
YouTube because popular because it was viral and anyone could publish WTF they wanted. The most engaging content and funniest shit rose to the top. Now it’s just a site awash in ads and fat kids dancing to Britney Spears hoping to become famous at school when they fall down and break the coffee table to bits. YouTube jumped the shark as the new “Funniest Home Videos” for the web. I hate to say it, these lawsuits may just drag on for years, but you can’t tell me (now) that YouTube (owned by google) will win. YouTube knows what the top searches and pageviews are daily – and they know that allowing people to upload TV and movie clips is wrong – but they’re not going to stop what keeps them successful for the masses. The video of the dog dragging his ass across the carpet to wipe off a poop nugget is funny, but 1,000 times more people will google Lady Gaga’s performance on the last Saturday Night Live episode. Sorry YouTube, we love you (and your content) but you just can’t put your head in the sand anymore and make us believe you can’t find the content (that legally isn’t allowed to be there) and filter it out. Everybody knows what you’re doing…
Watch this Liverpool Street Station Flashmob that’s actual a planned and filmed advertisement T-Mobile. I’m a sucker for these viral web meme’s that make you smile. Can you imagine being someone in the station that day when this unwittingly happenned out of nowhere? There are still advertisements that help sell your product where you’re not really selling anyone anything…just making them smile.
Okay for those people who have been living under a rock with no Internet connection, the Keyboard Cat YouTube video is just one of the latest Internet phenomenons. So basically its a short video clip in which one does something dumb or fails, then a cat in baby blue t-shirt comes on and “plays them off” on his keyboard. So without further adieu here is the countdown! *Warning some contain a little foul language*
Number Six: C-Walking by the treadmill.
To start the list we have one of my favorite clips of July. This wonderful piece of Internet lore comes from a house were they can afford chairs, and they love filming themselves attempting everyones favorite hood dance, the C(rip) Walk.
Number Five: Keyboard Cat softens the mood after telling mom you’re atheist.
Here is another clip that was good before but, once Keyboard Cat was added it became epic. So if I understand the back story this kid decides to tell his uber-right wing parents that he doesn’t believe in god and since he knows there reaction is going to be great, he has his friend record it. The result? Internet GOLD!
Number Four: Putting Bill O’Reilly in his place
If your a fan of Bill O’Reilly boy do I feel sorry for you, but also you might want to look away now because after you see this you will never enjoy his right wing bias again!
Number Three: Don’t Jump Edward!
This clip is funny for two reason. Number 1, this little guy learned that even though what your parents tell you may not always sound like the best idea, it probably is and Number 2, never jump from a cheap piece of fisher price plastic. I’m there has gotta be grounds for a lawsuit here!
Number Two: “Walker told me I have AIDS.
Generally AIDS is not really a funny topic. Here though is an exception to that rule, Chuck Norris tells a young Haley Joel Osmond that he as AIDS in a classic Walker Texas Ranger clip.
Number One: A lot of well-placed “wait for it….” moments from Keyboard Cat
Well here it is my favorite keyboard cat of all time. This video is funny for a few reason. The kid thought it would be a good idea to have a melt down on his justin.tv channel. Then it gets even better when the kids dad walks in and see the mockery he is making of himself to the entire interwebz. To tie up the whole thing is the wait for it moments from everyones favorite feline pianist.
Well there it is folks, my favorite keyboard cats. Of course use the comments to point everyone to your favorites!
This is crazy – I don’t even know how to describe it. In this latest bout of stupid human tricks, a couple guys decide to jump a homemade cart with one of those ATV carts. Do they make it? Oh they make it all right – you just won’t believe what happens next. It was so freaky that had to watch this like 6 times…
Watch this stunning programmed waterfall – it’s insane! This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. The guy that programmed this thing must be genius! I realize that the setup is probably no different than programming a scrolling LED sign, but there’s something about it being a waterfall that just make it cool as hel!
Nobody said that wrestling fans don’t get involved – but these fans get a little “too into it” when one of the wrestlers needs a folding chair. I think he gets a little more than he bargained for. I’m getting the picture they sell beer at this arena and it’s late in the show…!
Here’s yet another video of an office worker gone nuts, but this is better than the guy swiping his computer monitor and keyboard off the desk. This guy flat out throws monitors across the room, he tears down cube walls, and he even appears to take a sledgehammer to the copy machine. It goes on and on for what appears to be a very long time, I don’t understand why everyone didn’t just run out of the office. The security video is dated 5/23/2008 which was a Friday – maybe he got fired or something, I don’t know – you be the judge!
The Japanese must be gluttons for punishment today – because I happened along this little jem as well this morning. This guys “Engrish” isn’t so bad I guess, but when he says “dis is wok and woll” – I die laughing! Thanks Banned in Hollywood.
My name is John Pratt and I like all kinds of geeky, gadget tech stuff. I maintain web sites, write a little code, fool around with Wordpress, Ubuntu, play lead guitar in a band, and have a general fondness for computers electronic 'thingies'!