<![CDATA[YouTube + Monty Python= a reason for YouTube]]></h1> <article> <h1>YouTube + Monty Python= a reason for YouTube</h1> <p>2008-11-19T23:55:24Z</p> <p>Monty Python has a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/MontyPython">YouTube channel</a>. This is similar to Moses parting the Red Sea with his staff, but not as phallic. Or as phallic. Whatever.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqX-tkDXEk"></a></p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=1ZmIN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=YYsKn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=dW3sN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=zY27n"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=OKJLN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Stop trying to think of Facebook statuses</h1> <p>2008-11-18T05:28:36Z</p> <p></p> <p>Ever feel out of touch with <a href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a>? Yes, that <em>was</em> a trick question. Clever. </p> <p>The lowest form of Facebook interaction to get your fix: updating your status. But then once you’ve made the decision to do it, you have to contemplate what you can say without sounding like a complete douche/Facebook drone. </p> <p><a href="http://www.generatus.com/">Generatus</a> can help you. According to it, my current status is: “Chelsey agrees that money talks: her always says ‘Good-bye’.”</p> <p>This is more of like a fortune cookie… </p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=Q6wgN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=2DHxn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=qqdLN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=6s6fn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=dB6pN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Reality TV shows go to the dogs</h1> <p>2008-11-16T05:49:07Z</p> <p><param name="flashvars" value="viewcount=true&autoplay=false&brand=embed"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/317016"/><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channels" style="padding:2px 0px 4px;width:400px;background:#FFFFFF;display:block;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;text-decoration:underline;text-align:center;" target="_blank">Free TV : Ustream</a></p> <p>The latest Web craze: Puppy Cam! </p> <p>Cuteness is provided by the <a href="http://ustream.tv">UStream.TV</a> site, which streams live video to its community members.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=i4YKN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=spnUn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=RObKN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=zKCGn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=ZBeEN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Little People– Street Art on the Web</h1> <p>2008-11-14T07:36:45Z</p> <p>There is nothing better than street art online. It’s like porn for me. Except I’m not misogynistic… Take that patriarchy.</p> <p><a href="http://little-people.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Little People</a> is a “tiny street art project” in the urban paradise of London. Little people are literally left everywhere on the streets, juxtaposed with interesting props and left to “fiend for themselves.”</p> <p>This is my favorite:</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><p class="wp-caption-text">From Little People blogspot</p></div> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=xrZqN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=Q2ZQn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=VqX1N"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=T59Nn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=I1zAN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Cake: in a mug, and on the Web</h1> <p>2008-11-12T17:50:47Z</p> <p>Yesterday I couldn’t help but notice Wired’s Wiki-how to post: <a href="http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug" target="_blank">how to make a cake in a mug.</a></p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><p class="wp-caption-text">From Wired.com</p></div> <p>I don’t particularly love cake, and I don’t particularly love mugs –But when you slap the two together, something inside me springs to life, and it’s not even my appetite (that much).</p> <p>To make it even crazier, you bake your cup of cake in the microwave.</p> <p>Cake in mugs for all!</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=gKeQN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=G22yn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=EGLyN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=xqsBn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=F2jQN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Sayonara Election</h1> <p>2008-11-10T06:33:57Z</p> <p>As we all pause and wave goodbye to the past two years of our lives, we must be nostalgic about all of the wonderful comments, ideas and concepts that arose during this election: all of the stereotyped Joes and Janes and Titos; the hockey moms; the “hope” and “change” –Oh, how thankful I am to never hear this blunder again (from both sides).</p> <p>Now we face forward. It seems like our country was in a snow globe and someone just shook it, I know, because everything is upside-down-opposite of what it was– But for once we are right side up, am I right?</p> <p>That’s why <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html" target="_blank">Boston.com’s “Big Picture” photo gallery of The next President of the United States</a> is beautiful. –It’s history (for who he is, not just because he is part Black).</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=7QQDN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=7jQcn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=o3FXN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=skuln"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=2z1sN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Is Obama President? Go to isobamapresident.com</h1> <p>2008-11-04T23:53:22Z</p> <p>And find out <a href="http://isobamapresident.com/" target="_blank">what it says…</a></p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=GqiZN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=cqEen"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=ZeQrN"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=ERsMn"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=x6LuN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>In honor of the day before:</h1> <p>2008-11-03T20:13:19Z</p> <p>Someone bought a domain name and obviously already had hosting. Then they said, let there be light. And there was. For “<a href="http://thisfuckingelection.com" target="_blank">This. Fucking. Election.</a>” has proved that even a Web site can be a sentence, or a compilation of frustration.</p> <p>It can be whatever you want it to be.</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 260px"><p class="wp-caption-text">From thisfuckingelection.com</p></div> <p>One more day people.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=7s78N"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=3TG8n"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=qjL0N"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=PFFan"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=nCEJN"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Har, har this election’s Web presence is the life of the ‘net party</h1> <p>2008-10-28T22:28:04Z</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 524px"><a href="http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/taf.html?nid=N4wKXZoiIeuTbklbCOfyejUxNTc4ODg-" target="_blank"></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From CNNBC video</p></div> <p>So, I was first <a href="http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=N4wKXZoiIeuTbklbCOfyejUxNTc4ODg-&referred_by=12047582-aUTISrx" target="_blank">sent this</a>, I got confused, because I’m that stupid –Either that or I just assumed no one took the time to do shit like this anymore.</p> <p>Basically, let’s be hilarious and insert our friend’s name into a news brief to scare them into a voting booth. And then, har, har , har our vote will count!</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=yqEPM"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=9whTm"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=iHWJM"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=dFrxm"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=Y33lM"></img></a> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Pixolu: the greatest image journey of all time</h1> <p>2008-10-23T17:41:26Z</p> <p>Only in its toddler stage, <a href="http://www.pixolu.de/#" target="_blank">Pixolu</a> is one of the most efficient photo search engines I’ve encountered –Think on the verge of Web 3.0, people.</p> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><p class="wp-caption-text">From Pixolu</p></div> <p>Here’s your method. Type in a keyword (anything abstract or concise) and adjust the scrubber bar to match how many results you want as a maximum. Pixolu then performs an aggregate search through <a href="http://images.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a>, <a href="http://images.search.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> images.</p> <p>Wait. You’re not done. And I’m so nerdily excited.</p> <p>From <em>these</em> results, you pick any photo(s) that represent the ballpark idea you were looking for and then drag and drop the winners into Pixolu’s <em>graphical</em> <em>search engine box</em>. Then… (still there?)</p> <p>Judging on your wants, both written and pictorially portrayed, it displays a number of new results that aims to fit your photo-longing’s intent.</p> <p>If this doesn’t make sense, just go there. And if you don’t, you’ll be sorry when you come home in the near future and Web 3.0 is in bed with your wife.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=oDpkM"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=GChdm"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=d367M"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=Yvxom"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/thedailytexanblogs/dotcomplimentary?a=zb24M"></img></a> </div> </article> </main></body></html>