Me on Nite Fite!
(via Moth)
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We're Watching: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
…the real thrill is watching Felicia in it because she’s now one of us, and realizing that she’s helping make Harris and Fillion and Whedon and every person involved in the production one of us, too.
bijan writes:
Check out Episode 1 of a new show, Nite Fite, launched by our portfolio company Next New Networks. It’s hilarious.
Tim Shey has a post about Nite Fite over on the N3 blog.
Thanks, Bijan! Hope people like the show. The comments on the site so far have been amazing.
People in the office were making fun of my chocolate donut breakfast this morning, so I had to remind them of this classic SNL commercial with John Belushi.
Yatta Explains How Copy+Paste Was Invented
- yatta: i need to look up my old blog posts
- yatta: b/c i used to type them into my blog.
- yatta: a long time ago
- ellie: you would TYPE them?
- ellie: you're not that old before copy and paste was invented
- yatta: copy and paste was invented in 2005
- yatta: don't make fun. back then, all we had was 'copy'
- yatta: we would copy shit but not have anything we could do with it
- yatta: it'd take up all 256MB of our RAM
- yatta: we'd sit there and think, daymn. what am i gonna do with all of that shit I just copied.
- yatta: and then one day, a man by the name Lucious Paste invented a technique we all came to call 'Pasteogramy'
- yatta: or 'Paste' for short.
- yatta: thus, 'pasting' was born
- yatta: but it wasn't until a patent dispute between Marcielo Copy and Lucious Paste was settled for the sum of $500 and a chicken that 'copy' and 'paste' could be combined into a single action.
- yatta: Hence the 'copy and paste' we all take for granted.
- ellie: ....
- ellie: your kids are going to be really bored one day.
It’s not a good idea to remind Prius owners that the car still burns gasoline. That really pisses them off.
Christian Lander (“Stuff White People Like”) – Salon Interview
New Muppets video! Sam the Eagle presents a musical salute to America. (via patrioticeagle and danhacker)
Behind the Viral Video: What's Fake, What's Real
(NPR’s Talk of the Nation) Internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, hula-hooping viral video star Lauren Bernat and TV Week contributing writer Daisy Whitney talk about the highly controlled world of “viral video” and what’s real, what’s fake and how video became a big gun in the online marketing arsenal.
Gary The Puppet’s Magical Internet Adventure
The backstory for Justin’s great video above (watch in HD) is up on the Next New Networks blog.
justin sez:
Created for Media Kitchen and Venture Day. I guess it was shown on a big screen for a bunch of important people, which is awesome.
Shot on Steadicam by Kyle Fasanella, Directed and Written by Me, starring Gary the puppet (Ben Ross, Erik Beck). Shot on location at Tumblr, Next New Networks, Gawker, College Humor, and CBS Interactive.
Back in ‘83, the late, great Rodney Dangerfield had a minor (which in those days meant ubiquitous) novelty hit with Rappin’ Rodney. I brought it up to Rachel tonight while we were having flashbacks watching Beat Street, and she didn’t remember it, which made me think a lot of other people might not, either. Thankfully, it’s on YouTube. Even when I was eight, I loved that line, “I got a kidney shaped pool with a stone in it.” (via NightTracks).
Related, at least in my mind: Billy Crystal’s “You Look Marvelous” from 1985.