70 Million by Hold Your Horses! from L'Ogre.

thanks Nancy and Berns

USB Wine, download wine straight from the vineyards!, by zs2creative

The USB Wine key allows you to download wine from home and straight from the vineyard. The Wine Store offers more than 1200 different wines you can taste immediately with just a few clicks!

Go to www.usbwine.com now and start downloading!

thanks Erin

From Series 2, Episode 2 of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe on BBC:

The world’s most generic news report – Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe

thanks Stuart and Miguel

Submitted by Marcy LaViollette as seen on Laughing Squid posted by Ed Hunsinger:

San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church

photo by EDW Lynch

Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.

photo by Rubin Starset

WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of randomness, nonsensical yelling, and even a unicorn. A portable stereo blared Lady GaGa, while press and people passing by ignored the WBC signs and took pictures and videos of the more entertaining signs. I was also there and turned on the video camera while holding my sign.

See more here.

From Brian Truskey: Reminder for Saturday the 19th (National Talk Like a Pirate Day)

Learn to talk like a pirate. From loadingreadyrun.com:

thanks Brian

Lego Rejects a Bit Part in a Spinal Tap DVD
by Andrew Adam Newman
The New York Times
August 10, 2009

In 2007, when Coleman Hickey was 14, he made a stop-action film using Lego pieces and figures to depict a concert performance of the song “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight,” by Spinal Tap, the parody band featured in the 1984 mock documentary “This is Spinal Tap.”

YouTube video:

Among the fans of the video, which has garnered 82,000 views on YouTube and includes a musician hurling himself into the audience of Lego figures and crowd surfing atop their upraised plastic arms, are the members of Spinal Tap. The band showed the video during performances of its recent “Unwigged and Unplugged” tour.

But Lego is not amused. (more…)

From Erin:

Yet another brilliant repurposing of Bruno Ganz’s brilliant performance. Too bad he doesn’t get residuals.

Hitler Finds Out Michael Jackson Died by StudBod2001

And, if that’s not enough, this one’s from Andy Rowe TV:

Hitler Finds Out Sarah Palin Resigns

Other Downfall parody links:

Submitted by Josh Jasper:

From the Manhattan Airport Foundation Web site:

The Manhattan Airport Foundation is a land-use constituency committed to the immediate development of a viable and centrally-located international air transportation hub in New York City for the benefit of all New Yorkers.

Mission:

To provide New Yorkers with a viable and centrally-located international air transportation hub. It is our firm conviction that if you cannot bring the people to the airport, you must bring the airport to the people.

Project Vision: (more…)

Submitted by Jorge Luis Marzo, speaking of fake documentaries:

From Wikipedia: Spinal Tap is a parody heavy metal band that first appeared on a failed 1979 ABC TV sketch comedy pilot called “The T.V. Show”, starring Rob Reiner. The sketch, actually a mock promotional video for the song “Rock and Roll Nightmare”, was written by Reiner and the band, and included songwriter/performer Loudon Wainwright on keyboards. Later the band became the fictional subject of the 1984 rockumentary / ​mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. The band members are portrayed by Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel) and Harry Shearer (as Derek Smalls). The same trio of actors subsequently reunited as the American folk music revival band The Folksmen in the 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind.

On March 2, 2009, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer held a press conference at the House of Blues in Los Angeles to announce their forthcoming album of new and old Spinal Tap songs, plus a 2009 “Unwigged & Unplugged” tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the film, This Is Spinal Tap. According to an L.A. Weekly report, when MTV News’ Kurt Loder asked the trio “if they had plans beyond an album and tour, Shearer answered, ‘We’re gonna bomb Iran.’” (more…)

Submitted by Paul Krassner as posted on YouTube by City Lights Books

A mock interview between Paul Krassner and Larry King by Andy Thomas:

Also, Paul Krassner discusses his new book, Who’s to Say What’s Obscene?: Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today, with Andy Thomas.

A Busby Berkeley style music video for The BPA (Norman Cook, Fatboy Slim) with Talking Heads’ David Byrne and British rapper Dizzee Rascal on Southern Fried Records [mostly safe for work]:

Put down that pin!

(more…)

Warning: It’s a car commercial…

via adsoftheworld.com

Here’s the original:

And, here are two other Gene Kelly remixes:

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, commentary by Hugh D’Andrade:

When Fair Use Is Fairly Difficult

For years, it’s been a notoriously popular internet meme to remix the “bunker scene” from the 2004 film “Downfall.” In the original scene, actor Bruno Ganz portrays Adolf Hitler’s ranting breakdown in the final days of the Third Reich. In the hands of internet remixers, the scene’s English-language subtitles have been modified to transform it into commentary on everything from the subprime mortage crisis to breakfast theft. There’ve even been meta-commentaries on the meme itself.

EFF Board Chairman Brad Templeton recently remixed his own version, with Hitler ranting about troubles with DRM and the failure of DMCA takedowns to prevent fair uses. Take a look, and then keep reading [here] to see what Brad’s experience making it tells us about fair use and the DMCA.

EFF chairman makes a Downfall remix

via BoingBoing.com

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Another Damn Downfall Clip… Real Estate

This footage is from a Nokia commercial, purporting to be Bruce Lee playing table tennis with nunchucks…

From Uncle Wooly:

Bruce Lee Lost Footage 1969