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Screw you, YouTube. Watch some good videos.

These $200 Atena shelves sure are pretty, but unless you have books, picture frames or pottery with rounded bases, they’re going to be pretty impractical.

Check out this video of the Minneapolis hip-hop band Heiruspecs, featuring MC Muad’Dib (yep, it’s a Dune reference) beat-battling with the drummer:

That’s my friend Josh on guitar in the back, looking like he wishes he could beatbox. Sorry, Josh, you’re just the guitar player.

via MNStories

Ok folks, let’s keep this orderly; try to contain your emotions. Saddam Hussein’s novel, already a bestseller in Jordan, is being released in Japan. And we all know what that means: it’ll be at your local Barnes & Nobl within a month.
The historical novel depicts ancient tribal warfare and includes chapters entitled “The Foreigner Who Sold the Tribes”, “Retaliatory Tactics” and “The Burning of the Twin Towers” (but not the ones in New York, since, duh, those didn’t exist yet).

But, you know, I always thought of Saddam as more of a lyrical writer. Which is why it’s nice to read that “the book has a melodic clarity to it that suggests it could be adapted to the stage.

“I really think this book should be made into a musical,” says Itsuko Hirata, the Japanese journalist and translator who brought to book to Japan. “And once this is done, it should play in the heart of his enemy’s country, on Broadway.”

SOMEWHERE IN THE DUSTY DESERT
A YOUNG, MUSTACHIOED SADAM SITS WITH A PRETTY GIRL DRAWING WATER
SADDAM:Tra-la-la, I’m going kill your family, tra-la-la. Unless you agree to be my wife.

GIRL: But I told you that I’m married; you met my husband!

SADDAM: And your husband’s throat has met my knife! Tra-la-leeee!

Saw this ad for The Poseidon Adventure remake on Yahoo today, and was surprised at how readable the text is, even upside-down. In fact, what caught my attention was that I didn’t even notice it was upside-down until I had already clicked off onto another page. I had to go back and check.

It’d be interested to hear the process the designers went through to come up with this ad. I bet they worked pretty hard to make sure the text was legible at first glance.

Ever notice how noisy computers are on TV and in movies? Every keystroke releases a flurry of futuristic bleeps and blips. Windows hiss and swoosh as they close and open.
And most of the time the internet we see on film doesn’t look like the internet at all. A recent Wall Street Journal article details some of Hollywood’s technological inaccuracies and even includes a video reel of some of the more hilarious transgressions.

In this screenshot, a geek hero uses a plain-old Mac PowerBook to infect an evil alien ship with a crippling virus. See, it’s true, Macs can network seamlessly with Windows PCs.

Bonus points: In the comments, guess the name of the movie the screenshot comes from, and the name of the actor doing the uploading (without checking the WSJ video reel first).

A friend sent these, and they were good enough to get me feeling philosophical. So I thought I’d post them (note: I have no idea where they came from, if anyone can tell me, I’d love to attribute the creator).