Why So Serious?

Those of you hip to the viral Dark Knight promotions will get the reference (hint: try putting “.com” after the title of this blog post, without the “?”).
I am looking forward to this film more than any film since the interminable wait for the Tim Burton Batman film of 1989. Only this time, I think [...]

The Rudy Giuliani Giggle

This may be the creepiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Looks like The Mayor has finally been driven batshit by the scandals that are starting to cling to him like a bad odor.

Makes the “Hillary Cackle” start to look tame in comparison, doesn’t it?
The clip was assembled by that [...]

Alfonso Cuaron’s Shock Doctrine Video

I’m putting this up for future reference. I’m looking at using Naomi Klein’s new book, Shock Doctrine, in PS 545 American Political Thought next semester, and Cuaron (director of Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien) has produced an excellent teaser trailer for the book (but it’s more than that really).
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Embedding YouTube Videos in a PowerPoint presentation

Fantastic! Here’s a video illustrating how to download YouTube videos and convert them for use in a PowerPoint. I’ve been dying to find a way to do this. It requires some extra freeware (see this Lifehacker post for more, including links to the required freeware), but it’s not terribly difficult to do. I’m looking forward [...]

Here It Goes Again

Yes, I know this video is old. It still mesmerizes me.
Why?
It’s unexpected. Four guys doing a dance team routine on six treadmills and making it look effortless.
This is what I aspire to when I make a presentation. No, not acrobatics on gym equipment, but presenting the material in an unexpected fashion [...]

GIMP Tutorials

[Attention conservation notice: I'm posting this so I can go back and do these tutorials later. I'm too cheap to spring for Adobe CS3, but I need a robust image editing program. I think GIMP will fit the bill nicely.]
This site has 10 video GIMP tutorials like this:

available. Links out to [...]

Microblogging: Scoble Show Interviews Jaiku Founders

As many of you are aware, I’ve been interested in the various uses for blogging in an academic setting, and have experimented with a variety of platforms for this (I’m looking into using Vox for a social blogging experiement in a political theory class this fall, and probably WordPress.com for a groupblogging project in a [...]

Faux News: Keeping it (Un)Real

My dislike of Bill O’Reilly is no secret. After hearing Jenna Jameson spill about his between segment banter with her on a HTS special, it all made sense, that slimy, crawling-skin sensation that popped up whenever he was on. The condition was only worsened by that clip of his recent “interview” with the Miss New [...]

Merlin Mann: Inbox Zero

Hi, I’m Chris. I struggle with an overflowing email Inbox (have you seen my office, btw?). I am getting better, but still struggle with this terrible, terrible Affliction.
A friend turned me on to Merlin Mann’s posts on managing your email over at 43Folders. Recently, Merlin did a presentation to Google about this, which I’m placing [...]

2008 Elections: Candidate YouTube Videos

I’ve actually found the CNN/YouTube Debate to be an interesting step forward in terms of citizen participation in the debates process. To be certain, the weirder YouTube questions were selected out by CNN, but the ones that made it through were pretty interesting. I also think my wife’s Favorite Reporter (Anderson Cooper) did a pretty [...]