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July 23, 2008

This Nerdy Video About Fonts Is Actually Funny To Non-Typeface-Designers

Number of links I had to see saying this College Humor video about a bunch of fonts getting together and having a conference was funny before I finally watched it: approximately 14. Site that finally made me watch it: CC Insider. Especially WingDings:

Speaking of fonts, it's not funny per se, but the documentary about Helvetica was really good.

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July 22, 2008

Blowing The Lid Off The Muppets YouTube Video Conspiracy

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Well, in my first day as a private investigator, trying to get to the bottom of the Muppets YouTube videos featuring Statler and Waldorf, Gonzo, Sam the Eagle, and Beaker, I am happy to say that I've succeeded in solving the crime. An unnamed source CLOSE TO THE PROJECT informs me:

100% authentic. Muppets! Really simply, our company got the honor of working with them.

So, the reason those YouTube videos featuring Muppets were so convincing is because the Jim Henson Company made them. Move over, Occam, there's a new razor in town. I'm still not sure why they're making them, or why they're posted under several fake names, but whatever. Let's just say mystery solved. I'm going to be tailing people's philandering spouses around with my long lens camera in no time. I'm so good at crimes!

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Awww, The Today Show Finally Discovers Christian The Lion

Remember the heady days of late June, when our heartsicles were melted by the YouTubed story of those guys being reunited with their pet lion in the '60s? This morning, The Today Show played the video and Meredith Vieira cried! Strangely, though, they chose to just show the amateur, kind of awkwardly-done video straight from YouTube with no commentary or reportage other than calling it heartwarming and big on the internet. (This version uses I Will Always Love You, a better choice than the previous version's I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing.):

Showing this video without context is kind of like Meredith Vieira reporting that her friend's brother's uncle woke up in a New Orleans hotel room bathtub without his liver, but whatever, it's summer. Maybe this took the place of one of those "Why you should feed your kids other things besides candy!" Idiocracy segments.

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Girl, I Want To Get Up In Your Laboratory Procedures And Efficacize All Night

Tired of manually pipetteing all your well plates? How many times has this happened to you? Well now, with epMotion, the revolutionary new pipette automation system from Eppendorf, you won't have to. Also, you'll get laid?

(via BoingBoing)

Buy one here? This is like "Dick in a Box" except you cut a hole in the box and put your annual report inside and then give the box to all your shareholders and then they open the box and decide how they want to vote on the Q2 board changes. There we go, I used up all the words I know that have to do with business. Anyway, it's official, irony has officially entered the business world. There have been a couple of deeply funny videos made by businesses that were so un-self-aware as to seem ironic, like the MDA Upper Management Rap, but this one is just going for it. We also cannot forget the Bank of America/MBNA "One" video, which clearly wasn't supposed to be ironic judging by the depth of the pleats on those slacks, but has a huge ROI. ROIFL. I am the CEO of Joke Corp.

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Groverfield

Between yesterday's conspiracy, last week's Muppets Take "Manhattan" mash-up, and now this, Jim Henson is just crushing it on the internet. His ghost has over 2,000 MySpace friends.

(via SlashFilm)

Maybe if this is what Cloverfield had actually been like, people would still care about it. Remember when Cloverfield was the number one movie in the country, but no one ever talks about it? If you want to have a conversation about Cloverfield (what? why?), you really have to jog people's memories. You have to start with "it was a million years ago," include something about "super gimmicky," and end with "I don't remember why I wanted to talk about this."

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July 21, 2008

Who Is Making All These Muppets Videos?

Some YouTube videos have been cropping up in the last couple weeks featuring the Muppets. It would be an obvious viral internet meme, but what's weird is how professionally they're made, with pretty Muppet-y looking Muppets and classic Henson-style playfulness and wit. They even have Statler and Waldorf jokes at the end. Where are these coming from?

They don't even seem to be selling anything, which is weird. How am I supposed to turn the experience of watching these videos into spending money?

More Muppets after the jump.

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May The Schwartz Be With You

Oh look, a Rush Hour/Star Wars mash-up. Finally!

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I can't tell if this video is super racist, or just very very racist. Although, to be fair, you can't blow up the Death Star to the Beach Boys. The Lettermen or the Mamas and the Papas, maybe, but not the Beach Boys. In space, no one can hear you thug life.

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Sarah Haskins Rips Apart Those Commercials Aimed At Guilty Moms

There's a new episode of Sarah Haskins's Current TV series, Target: Women, in which Sarah makes fun of commercials and TV shows aimed embarrassingly at the female demographic. This time she looks at the disturbing (-ly funny) trend of food companies luring moms by convincing them that healthy food equals family love. If those "mom salute" Tyson ads drive you nuts with their implications, Sarah Haskins is here to sympathize:

If you missed Sarah's Target: Women rant about the strange domination of yogurt, watch it now. It's hilarious.

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