{"id":16757,"date":"2010-02-18T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16757"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:38:49","slug":"dave-does-the-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/dave-does-the-videos.html","title":{"rendered":"***Dave Does the Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I don’t watch videos people link to very often. At work, I don’t want to trigger the YouTube alerts with the network folks. At home, I don’t have much opportunity (or opportunity to throw the headphones on).<\/p>\n

Here are a number I’d flagged when I ran across them or had them recommended to me. They run the gamut from serious to silly, from cheesy to exquisite, from escapist to educational.<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

First off, just to be political, John Oliver follows up on those tales of out-of-touch Obama and his exotic un-American vacations in the hoity-toity richville of Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Because when I think of Marvel’s Thor, I always think of him with … a sword?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hey, remember that gal who had the horrific reaction to a flu shot — spasms, slurred speech, but she was okay when she walked backward? Um .. maybe not so much. But she has some exciting new symptoms, thanks to her alternative medicine practitioner. Kudos to Inside Edition for running this story. A pity it will get fraction the coverage of the original ‘FLU SHOTS ARE SCARY EVIL GOVERNMENT BAD MOJO!” stories.<\/p>\n

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In the following, it’s … disturbing how realistic all these faked exteriors look. That it’s become this easy to do — or at least this cheaper to do than to shoot on a real location — is remarkable.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of SFX, what’s remarkable about this is entry is not the writing or the acting, but that they could put together all the SFX using home hardware and software (plus a clip of the Wilhelm Scream<\/a>). Nice.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Star Trek, here a bit of remix fun from one of my favorite TOS episodes.<\/p>\n

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For a variety of reasons, I am very unlikely to ever play Mass Effect 2. But this trailer for it is pretty damned cool.<\/p>\n

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A very nice video from the DNC on the recession, job loss, and what’s changed in the last year. Too long for a commercial, but I’d love to see this get more circulation.<\/p>\n

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This ad was put out by Planned Parenthood leading up the Super Bowl and the Focus on the Family Tebow commercial. It’s calm, passionate, and very good. I have no doubt ABC would have refused to run it, even assuming PP had decided it was worth blowing a million or two dollars on the placement.<\/p>\n

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From the sublime to the ridiculous, I may have to gouge my eyes out after this 1978 commercial for Japanese “sea chicken” (tuna).<\/p>\n

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It’s better on human feet to run barefoot than with those multi-hundred-dollar Nikes? Say it ain’t so!<\/p>\n

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The 100 Cheesiest Movie Lines of All Time? While at times it seems like a race between Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Cage (and while I might question some of the entries, as most people will), it does probably include the Cheesiest Line of All Time that Margie Adores.<\/p>\n

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