I’m sure more than one of my readers is a little bit confused by this whole thing but is too embarrassed to ask. So here it is in convenient YouTube format:
Category Archives: From the tubes
Random things in the Internet.
Putin sings Blueberry Hill
If you thought that Raul Castro lighting a Chanukiah was a weird sight, then you need to check this video out.
Debtris
From a cool blog called Information is beautiful comes this animation. It’s sort of an animated rehash of an older post. Their point is: we hear that this war cost X million dollars and this credit rescue cost Y million dollars. It all sounds like a lot of money but it’s hard to see what things really are without any context. This video presents you with said context in a very clear way:
Thought of you
Beautiful hand drawn animation by Ryan Woodward, although I didn’t like the choice of music so much.
Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.
Merry Christmas
While Christmas posts are unusual on his blog, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to share this wonderful musical video of a girl jingling her bells. Click here to watch. And do try this at home, by all means.
Visualizing friendships
An intern at a website called Facebook (some sort of up and coming social network, whatever that is) took data from millions of friendships and drew a map using that information. He drew the cities where users were from and lines between cities depicting friendships. More details on how he drew this here.
The result: A pretty picture, not unlike the ones you see taken from the ISS at night… except these aren’t lights, they are Facebook users.
It also shows to an extent the level of internet penetration in the world: not many users in Siberia nor the Sahara – or the level of internet censorship – can anyone see China?
High resolution image here.
WookieLeaks
By Mexican cartoonist Paco Calderon.
Best ad ever
Sorry, I don’t want this blog to turn into a “Best of YouTube” website. But this one is really good: Currys & PC World Megastores TV Ad Director’s Cut.
I have a bad case of diarrhea
No, no, no. I did not get sick while traveling all over Mexico. I stumbled upon this magnificent Japanese video. I would like to start an internet meme where people wear aerobics clothing and emulate the lovely Engrish tutors.
8-bit Trolololo
This post is dedicated to Erika Himes.
In Mexico there is a saying: “Un clavo saca a otro clavo” (One nail pushes out another). It applies here…
For months you’ve been trying to get Eduard Khil’s beautiful rendition of “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home” a.k.a. Trolololo out of your head. The saying applies:
In a stroke of Nobel-prize-caliber genius, YouTube user Robinerd created a chiptune version of said song. This means that it was made to sound like it was playing on an old-school machine, think a NES or a Commodore 64. For me this is a problem, because those types of songs have a tendency of sticking around inside my brain for a while.
Without further ado I present you: 8-bit Trolololo. Press play at your own risk.