that ring of confidence

David Letterman on NBC, Leno and Conan O'Brian

I feel sorry for Conan O'Brian in all of this.

A nice holiday video for you to sing along to

So I'm married now

I got married yesterday. Neither Lydia nor myself have had a chance to blog about it, but I'm sure one of us will do a fully report soon. What I do have instead is the video shown at our wedding about our lives and relationship.

Man walks on the moon

Some very not safe for work footage of the first moon landing which marked its 40th anniversary this week. They stopped landing on the moon six years before I was born, and by the time they got around to the last few missions it seems like it had gotten fairly routine. These days the only people impressed with the moon landings are Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Which is too bad, because it seems like it would have been cool to live in a time when science was considered important and anything seemed possible in the future.

This is worse than Panic at the Disco

Warning there is quite a bit of swearing in the clip below.  Watch it with headphones on if you're at work, or watch it at home.  It is however well worth watching if only to see the most frustrating game of Super Mario Brothers ever.  The levels that he's playing are clearly user created so it's some kind of ROM, a copy of the game played not on a Nintendo but on his computer.

Also is he trying to sound like Christopher Walken or is that just how he always sounds?

I'm On A Boat: video that's not safe for work

And when I saw it's not safe for work, I mean there's loads of swearing. Don't get fired on my account. Just go home, fire up your own computer and enjoy.

Jizz In My Pants video

Why is electro-pop so ripe for parody? Is it because most of it's meaningless anyway? Either way I'm really looking forward to Incredibad by The Lonely Island in February.

Searching for some great French music lead me to Karkwa

I've been enjoying the French Canadian band Karkwa the last few days. Their new album was picked as the best French language album of the year by the iTunes store in Canada, so I picked it up. I always feel like I should own and listen to more French music, but it's hard to know what's good. The risk of buying the French equivalent of a Celine Dion album is very real.

Why study industrial arts?

The 1950s' must have been a wonderful time, with handy public service videos like this one to help kids make decisions about what sort of post-secondary education they should take. I actually saw this as part of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 VHS video that Aaron Peck and I rented from Silver Screen Video back when I was in high school. If only I'd taken its advice. Damn my liberal arts education.

Frost | Nixon

I'm excited for the soon to be released film Frost | Nixon, which dramatizes the famous interview between the British journalist and former President Richard Nixon. Though the original interview is hours upon hours long, there's a few great clips of it up on YouTube that are worth taking a look at though now you have to pick through various trailers and features for the movie to find them.

Cookie Monster eats a machine

Nathan showed me this clip on YouTube the other day. Originally broadcast on October 8th, 1967 the clip shows Cookie Monster eating a talking bit of machinery. It shows the wonderfully weird early years of Sesame Street, a weirdness that was channeled into The Muppet Show, as well as just how much of an attention span we've lost since then. I can't imagine a kids show putting a four minute clip on like this today.

Star Trek meets Monty Python

This kind of feels like the culmination of everything the internet has been working towards since Day 1. Thanks to Wil Wheaton for the original find [ww]

You can hardly tell I made it on a cell phone

I was thinking about the video I posted awhile ago of Louis CK talking about the technological advances we all take for granted [jks] when I realized that I'd once made an entire video on my old cell phone. That's right my old cell phone. My first cell phone made telephone calls, and if you threw it at a raccoon hard enough could probably stun a raccoon but that's about it.

30 Rocks

Lydia [iatl] sent me this video of a 30 Rock parody on Sesame Street.

The greatest goal ever

It's been a bad year for Arsenal this season, and so I turn to the past and hide myself away in nostalgia.  This Dennis Bergkamp goal against Newcastle United is one of the reasons I love Arsenal, and one of the reasons that Bergkamp remains my favorite Gunner.

Fraggles are not Muppets

I was talking to someone the other day about our favorite Muppets, and his was one of the Fraggles [wp].  I'm sorry but Fraggles are not Muppets.  Sure they were created by Jim Henson, but that doesn't make them Muppets.  Not to get all Mr. Continuity here, but the Fraggle's world and the world of the Muppets are separate and have never crossed over, unlike the Muppets and Sesame Street.

Smurfs on the ColecoVision

This was the first video game I remember owning.  There was also a very terrible Superman game from Atari, but that was years later.

Louis CK on Conan

Via Merlin Mann [kg]

Once in a lifetime

i love the Talking Heads, and one of their best songs is "Once In A Lifetime". The first time I heard the song however was not as sung by David Byrne and group but rather one Kermit the Frog as part of the relaunched Muppet Show. The show didn't really last, but the cover of the song by Kermitt was one of the great moments in Muppets history. I was reminded of this last night when Lydia revealled that she had never seen any of the Muppet movies, and only seemed familiar with The Muppet Babies cartoon.

What the heck? At the very least The Muppet Movie is now on our list of things we've got to watch to get her up to speed. The girl has never even seen Jaws.

Yup, there's a lot of work before the wedding.

Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen to SNL in a decade

i must admit I rarely watch Saturday Night Live these days and have not regularly since the mid-1990s. Most of the time when someone starts talking about a funny sketch they saw on the show I... wait what am I talking about when's the last time that happened? Probably the early 90s'. Well at least until the arrival of Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and SNL's wonderful Tina Fey acted spoof on her.

Take a look at these two clips, one is Fey and one is Palin. Which is more uncomfortable? I think that Fey as Palin probably would do a better job as Vice-President than Palin as Palin. The thing is I almost want John McCain to win just so we can keep getting regular Tina Fey guest spots as the new Vice-President on SNL.

Almost.