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Okay, while browsing through the Wired gallery of HD-DVD code photoshops, this ad comes up. Conspiracy revealed? Were the BluRay folks behind it all?!

To bring you the following announcement:

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That is all. Move along.

So, The Show with ZeFrank is ending.. but I got a little nerdgasm when I watched the 3/8/07 show: Jonathan Coulton! You see… this is hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t been watching Ze all this time. Ze’s internship at the League of Awesomeness is basically over, which is why The Show is coming to an end… in an earlier episode, he challenged the Fabulosos to a game of chess, and lost, so he had to submit to a demand, and that demand was for him and a guitar and 10 minutes of his stupid songs. So, he got Jonathan Coulton to provide the guitar (and the singing), and he was just on screen and.. okay, so only me and a select group of fans will get this, but, hey, nerdgasm, I actually squealed like a little girl when JoCo showed up.

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Found this over on Dethroner, and while I could make snarky comments of my own, I think I’ll just quote the stuff from that site, as it’s lovely:

Eurovision is a yearly song contest, sort of a proto-American Idol, which has mutated into some strange generator of discordant, embarrassing pop gems. (See: Lordi.)

Switzerland’s entry for 2007 is this amazing travesty called “Vampires Are Alive,” at its lyrical crux completely missing that vampires, by defintion, are not alive, and then spinning out from there in a shower of blood and synchronized dance.

Sample lyric: “I am a vampire. I’m a slave./I sleep through the daylight, hence my grave.” These guys make Celine Dion look like Celine Dio. Don’t watch at work unless your co-workers irony shields are way, way up. You might never live it down.

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So, Tim Hardaway, some basketball player of moderate fame, goes around saying ‘I hate gay people’. And then George Takei, who pwns with the fiery heat of a thousand suns, puts this out:

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Why? Because it brings me things like this through the tubes:

Why is he wearing a Gundam helmet? I… I… it doesn’t matter. The word ‘transcendental’ comes to mind. Thank you, Internets. Thank you.
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My budget is, as always, limited come this time of year (damn stingy boss and his cheap-ass bonuses), but I have found the perfect gift for all of you this Cthulumas:

Expect yours delivered real soon now. Edit: Updated the video to the Uncensored version. Enjoy!

If that doesn’t remind you of the reason for the season, nothing will!

Okay, this is not one of the promised posts, but while catching up with zefrank, I came across this video. Monster, this one’s for you:

So, I haven’t posted any videos of my own for a while. Blame work, which has been slowly draining my soul away for the past couple of weeks (it’s getting better now, though). So, in the meantime, here’s a video from someone who does video a hell of a lot better than I ever could, and who’s show, I have decided, is one of the best things in the entire history of things, ever. He does a new one every weekday. Go check ‘em out.

the show with zefrank

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Yes, I owe you guys another video entry, sorry, I know you love them so. But in the meantime, here’s something to tide you over. Made by two good friends, Absu and Jancelot, this is part ass-kicking action, part bizarre psychedelic homage to the NES.. and burgers. You’ll see. My friends are twisted, twisted individuals.

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Finally done with the first course in my long-distance education degree program! Took me longer than expected due to being sick for about a week, and then a serious case of post-sickness ‘I’m a lazy-ass slacker’ syndrome. But I finished the last couple of lessons in the course tonight, and the books for the next course should be shipped and on their way tomorrow, so I can continue! So, how am I celebrating this minor milestone in my studies? Simple: with a gift to all of you. I give you, my dear readers, Weird Al’s new video, White and Nerdy. I just want you all to know that I identify with pretty much every single aspect of this video, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

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So, I just got my greedy little hands on one of these beasties:

A Genius DV610 digicam. Sweet little beastie, too: 6.6 MP camera (3.1 MP native, alas), Records video straight to MPEG4 at 30 fps, at 640×480 or 320×240 resolution, writes straight to SD card, rechargeable battery with about 3 and a half hours of life, about the size of a pack of cigarrettes, lightweight, works as a webcam too.

So, been playing with it a bit, and I like it. A lot. Haven’t actually recorded anything that I’d put up online, mainly ’cause I spent most of last week sick as a dog and my voice was all screwed up. I’m still a bit stuffed up, but feel loads better, so I’ve started playing with it a bit more. What does this mean? It means you can probably expect me to goof around with videos here on the site a bit. Yes, I know you’ve all lusted for the chance to join me during my morning commute, or grocery shopping, or whatever else. Exciting! Well, now, you just might. So, expect videos!

This one goes out to Evo:

Behold the ultra-blurry phonecam video! But that’s okay, it’s not the video that matters.. it’s the audio. Turn up the volume to hear the dulcet tones of Mr. Samuel L. Jackson letting us all know what he thinks about those motherfucking snakes on his motherfucking plane.
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