Here’s a flowchart for Bonnie Tyler’s eighties classic, Total Eclipse of the Heart:
In case you’re not familiar with the song, here’s the video.
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The Toronto Garbage Strike of 2009 may be over (as might be David Miller’s reign come election time next year) and garbage collection is resuming today, but that’s no reason not have a song about it. The Toronto Star posted a story today about The Toronto Garbage Song (a.k.a. Flush Your Garbage), which was written and posted to YouTube by Ian Kelk.
This isn’t the first strike song to gain exposure through the internet. London Underground is still my favourite. It’s a reworking of The Jam’s Going Underground by British comedy singing duo Amateur Transplants (Adam Kay and Suman Biswas).
Here’s a homemade video that someone made for the song – be warned, it’s a little sweary:
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Force by Northwest
I love Jim Hance’s painting that adds a little Star Wars to the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, titled Force by Northwest:
Click the painting to see it at full size.
On the painting’s page on the Artbreak site, it says “Acrylic on wood board painting, scanned and digitally manipulated.” Signed prints are available!
In case you don’t recognize the scene, here’s a still from the scene that inspired it:
And here’s the scene:
What happens when you take Sesame Street video and Slayer audio and mash them up? Pure metal goodness!
Here’s a great scene from a Judge Judy case (never thought I’d write those words) in which a high school student learns about rhetorical questions the hard way: in front of millions of viewers!
And technically speaking, it’s astronomers and cosmologists who find out things about space, and what we think of as “rocket science” is really rocket engineering.
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The Story Behind “Keyboard Cat”
This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
Another internet meme made the big time today – today’s edition of CNN’s “American Morning” ended with anchor Kiran Chetry announcing that they would be “played out” by “Keyboard Cat”. In case you haven’t yet seen them, Keyboard Cat videos all follow the same formula:
- They all have the name “Play Him/Her Out, Keyboard Cat”
- They begin with a segment in which someone humiliates or hurts himself or herself
- They cut to a strange video featuring a cat playing a tune on a cheesy home keyboard
This is my favourite Keyboard Cat video, in which a guy learns an important lesson in nunchuk safety:
This one, featuring a guy whose parents are trying to convince him that it’s bad idea to broadcast his meltdown online, is a close second: