It's not often that I command you to watch something, and it's early yet, but this video has the potential to be David After The Dentist 2010. Same set up, father filming kid in car while driving. Who knew how badly this child wanted to be a Single Lady?




Via The Daily What and Ragamuffin

Oh man, this makes me giggle. Not sure where it came from. Does anyone know who the band is in the bottom picture?

I was excited to get the email Friday morning indicating my disc for watching Netflix movies had shipped and would arrive this past Saturday. The "Watch Instantly" feature isn't one I've taken too much advantage of because I don't like watching movies on the computer unless I'm traveling. I've now used the Watch Instantly on the Wii app a couple times and have a few thoughts:

-I don't know if there was a 'Watch Instantly Queue' before, but having one now is pretty cool, especially for TV series. There's less urgency to the Watch Instantly Queue.
-Watching TV series on Netflix has historically meant having to wait for the next disc. Watch Instantly solves that problems.
-Expanding 'Watch Instantly' to a new crop of users is going to put pressure on Netflix to offer better movies. I THINK that's behind an agreement they signed with the studios to wait 28 days before offering a movie to their at home subscribers in exchange for more movies for 'Watch Instantly'. I could have all the details wrong.
-There isn't a search on the Wii app, but that's because typing sucks on the Wii. In fact, not having to log in to my Netflix account on my Wii was one of the pleasant surprises when I tried it for the first time.
-Browsing for movies on the Wii app is OK, but the movie images should probably be bigger and clearer.
-Plus, as reminded by the comment from APik below, you can manage your queue directly from the computer without having to mess with the browse feature of the Wii app.
-Am I doing it wrong, or does the movie picture always display in TV format? Send help.
-This is the future.

SO far, so good. I'm extremely satisfied.

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Update
One thing I forgot was fast forwarding/rewinding. The ability to resume watching from where you stopped in the middle of a movie negates this somewhat, but fast forwarding through the "Last week on" and the title sequence is annoying.

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All I remember from last week is that there was a firefight where 2 million rounds of ammunition were fired without anyone getting shot and Starbuck is a mole reprising a character that has appeared on what, 6 of 8 seasons? I mean... They should really try some new plot twists, these ones are tired.

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Have you seen Twitter accounts with bios longer than 160 characters? I got followed by a Twitter account for Vapiano Boston and was surprised to see that they had a bio much longer than the typical limit of 160 characters. I saw this a couple weeks ago and didn't think about it past noticing it. This time I wanted to figure out what they were doing. It doesn't seem like anyone else has noticed though, because while I found a blog post on the topic yesterday (which for some reason I can't find today), I couldn't find anyone else talking about it. The post I found suggested these longer bios might be for premium accounts, but does a chain restaurant seem like the type of account Twitter would beta this with?

Anyone know anything about this?

So... I saw this flowchart on The Daily What.



And I thought about commas save lives:


And obviously I had to make this. There has to be a joke about articles doing something. I just don't know what it is.

"Look at your fine self, you look like you should be married to the San Diego Padres."



Via @LMokaba and Punchline.

"Treme", David Simon's latest premiers Aprill 11 on HBO. The show and Simon got the
New York Times Magazine treatment on Sunday...

The story lines in “Treme” begin three months after Katrina, and they follow a diverse group of characters as they rebuild their lives in a city torn apart, a city in which tens of thousands of houses are abandoned, in which only 50 percent of the population remains, in which neighborhoods are still without power. The main characters in “Treme” aren’t the overburdened cops, spiraling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of “The Wire.” In their place, for the most part, are musicians.

What if you had a party, but everyone was wearing shoes that made them the same height. That would be a weird party. Social dynamics would be all askew... The above photo is from a 1997 party thrown by Berlin artist Hans Hmmert. Not sure what ever came of it.