These youtube clips have me excited for The Best of the Muppet Show dvds to arrive from Netflix. The first clip is probably my favorite. Animal was based on Keith Moon, but they appropriately have his jaw drop in awe of Buddy Rich.
Here’s various music clips from the show:
Buddy Rich vs Animal drum solo
NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger isn’t sure. “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either,” he says. After declining profits and a $570 million loss at the Boston Globe, he is focusing on how to best transition from print to Internet.
Having a paper to feel in your fingers, visually reduce in size as you read each section and bring into the toilet is great, but the pain of delivery, cost, environmental impact and today’s 24 hour news sources should do it in fairly soon. I believe a full printed version will be around 10 more years, likely 20, but in the near future most physical ‘newspapers’ will be a thin flexible lcd screen.
This great youtube video is an edit of one-liners used by David Caruso in the opening of CSI Miami. It might be every episode. Almost all include Caruso slipping on his shades. Hearing the first second of The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” adds to the comedy.
link (via metrobloggingmiami)
A breweryin Hokkaido Japan is producing a low-malt beer with milk.
“It’s got a fruity taste, so it will probably go well with sweets as well”
380 yen for a 330 ml bottle. Currently only available in Hokkaido.
link (via trendhunter)
“Early this year, after a half-century of growth, the federal list of detectable objects (four inches wide or larger) reached 10,000, including dead satellites, spent rocket stages, a camera, a hand tool and junkyards of whirling debris left over from chance explosions and destructive tests.”
Apparently China’s Jan. 11 test of an antisatellite rocket that shattered an old satellite into hundreds of large fragments didn’t help matters either…
Alright, so this may put you over the limit of specialized fruit tools if you already have the lemon squeezer and the apple slicer from the MoMA Store, but it still looks cool. $26.
link (via productdose)
Much more creative than a titty flash. And with waaay better music!
here’s the video
(thanks qweniden)
This plug and play game takes a page from the Wii. A helicopter headband controls the character onscreen. Not knowing much about Manga, I vaguely recall seeing Doreamon, the earless cat robot before.
Can many humans pitch-in to write a single novel? I’m guessing it’s going to be a tad disjointed. “Crowdsourcing. The Wisdom of the crowds. Social networking. Collaborative enterprise.” works best for wikipedia.
“A Million Penguins is an experiment in creative writing and community. Anyone can join in. Anyone can write. Anyone can edit.”
link (via trendhunter)
Since Lost has jumped the shark (despite the votes here), this “new” campy 80’s theme song is perfect.
Fight this lame made-up holiday by visiting Be My Anti-Valentine for plenty of great images and cards.
“”Happy unimaginative, consumerist-oriented and entirely arbitrary, manipulative and shallow interpretation of romance day”
link (via josh spear)
Much like Alvin Straight, Paul Woods’ journey was launched because of a sick relative. He took care of his sick mother in Alaska until she died recently and is now trying to get back to his wife in Virginia.
As of this article, Woods and his broken-down Toro mower are in a ski resort parking lot in Utah.
link (thanks gene)
After visiting the DailyCandy offices today, I swung around the corner to the Soho Moma store. One of the first things that caught my eye was the banana door stop.
These hugging salt and pepper shakers were cute. The spices come out of their eye and mouth holes.
And the lemon squeezer was next to it’s sister item, the apple slicer, which I covered last year in Technotronic.
