Football: a ‘Christian’ Sport

Conservative pundit Stephen Colbert explains why:

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Booking a DI Session

via some Twitter... Booking a DI Session starts slow, but is quite funny. It seems like it was made with Xtranormal Text-to-Movie.

Puppetji: animated by the unseen

Here's a "socksang" by the sometimes fickle Puppetji, before his enlightenment over the paradox of Paper or Plastic?:

Revenge, Irish style

A favorite Simpsons segment is in the Treehouse of Horror XII episode (Season 13), where Homer catches a leprechaun to nullify a gypsy curse. There's a video here for now.

Another fav is Homer's daydream of a visit to the Land of Chocolate and taking a bite out of a chocolate dog; video here.

Viral Video Film School on using AE

InfoMania's Viral Video Film School on using After Effects (did the AE team really wear tin foil hats?):

Remixing Colbert & Lessig

Along the lines of a yesterday's post on Copyright Criminals and RiP: A Remix Manifesto... Lawrence Lessig appeared on The Colbert Report last week. The seriously funny Colbert challenged remixers "not to remix" the segment to great dance beats. Lessig and a Comedy Central blog has The Inevitable Colbert/Lessig Remixes.

Here's Lessig on Colbert:

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Lawrence Lessig

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Here's a Lessig talk at TED:



Fair Use is part of copyright law. Here's an explanation from The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education by Center for Social Media:



Update: Oddly, even using headlines and linking to articles is up in the air -- see Lawsuit over website links in spotlight, Copyright violation or fair use to be decided at The Boston Globe.

Update: WSJ talks about "transformative" vs. "just stealing" in Color This Area of the Law Gray.

Batman vs. The Penguin: The Debate

Update: Who told McCain to blink so much (3000 times... video) during his debate?! Blinking is healthy, and who wants a robotic stare, but too much has consequences according to the International Journal of Psychophysiology:

"For eight U.S. presidential elections during the period 1960–2004, the rapid blinker during debates received fewer overall votes than his opponent. In seven of these eight elections, the rapid blinker also lost the electoral vote and was defeated at the polls. Furthermore, in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, seven out of ten presidential aspirants have shown elevated EBRs (over 50 blinks per minute) and have been defeated in their candidacies." (via Zack)

The Colbert Report's 2nd greenscreen challenge

The Colbert Report is having another greenscreen challenge -- this time it's Project Make McCain Exciting: "when Republican Presidential nominee John McCain addressed a crowd in Kenner, Louisiana on June 3, he did so in front of a green screen, thereby issuing a bold challenge to Americans to make him seem more exciting."

Projects by Sam DeWitt and others played last night (see the Make McCain Exciting Challenge segment). There's plenty of room for more submissions, though George Lucas might not show up with the lightsaber for the show winners like last time.



Update: someone noted that another entry was by one John Knoll.

Santa voice over session

Some, like The Church Lady, may suppose that Santa deserves to work for producers, given his past. For more see Santa’s Crimes Against Humanity by Robert Anton Wilson, The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus, Santa is a Wildman!, and Is Christmas From Christianity? a video lecture by Abdullah Hakim Quick.

Update: due the uncertainty around Santa, Mr Spock was called in for a mind-meld (starring Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia).

7 Deadly Sins - Simpson's style

From the recent Treehouse of Horror via Hulu (better sound than YouTube)... starting around 18 minutes...

Teach Final Cut in a bikini (no experience required)

from Craigslist via Final Cut Pro-L, and don't forget the Solar Powered Bikini:

"We need Beautiful, physically fit girls to be Instructors for the Popular Video Editing Software 'Final Cut Pro.'

NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
We will teach you everything you need to know to teach this program to your students.

You must be comfortable wearing a bikini while you teach.
You will teach 2 to 3 students at a time, and there will always be an experienced editor on site for assistance.

You will be a legitimate instructor, teaching a legitimate skill to others, and you will be wearing a bikini, no nudity.

Please respond to this email with a head shot and a recent full body photo (it does not have to be in a bikini, but it has to be representative of your current physical condition)

• Location: Santa Monica
• Compensation: $20/hr
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests."

Reply to: job-492147519@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-11-28, 9:13AM PST
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This is a close-up?

Duck Amuck (1951)



And coincidentally via Nack, Mel Blanc on David Letterman.

They think he is insane, yet he outranks them

The American military is divided over Iraq policy. It's being reported that General Petraeus' boss Admiral Fallon holds him in very low regard (calling Petraeus a boot-licker would be kinder than what the CENTCOM boss said).

Some military men thought you sometimes had to destroy a village to save it, but in this New Age/World Order we might have to send the aliens back to the stoned age to bring freedom and democracy to a land.

According to Firesign Theatre, "our greatest fear is realized, we're under attack from superior consciousness." Just remember, there's a seeker born every minute:

Training Day

It doesn't seem like the whole skit...