Flipping Great

Demitri Martin presents the findings from his life's research without needing to resort to Powerpoint or indeed data measurement.

A Brief History of Meme

Weezer are known for their inventive videos, from Buddy Holly (which was included as part of Windows '95 to show off its multimedia capabilities) to Islands in the Sun.

The video to Pork and Beans the single from their soon to be released Red Album contains a potted history of some of the more pervasive internet memes. If you're having trouble finding them all Fox Australia has a nice little cheat sheet.

A Screen that Ships without a Mouse Ships Broken

Clay Shirky's talk from O'Reilly's 2008 Web Expo points out just how much free time we actually have to "waste" on social participtation projects. The next time you roll your eyes at someone for editing Wikipedia or Musicbrainz or for playing about on Facebook remember, at least they're doing something rather than contributing to the billions of hours of free time spent in front of the latest reality show.

Even Stevphen - Drinking

Her indoors thinks I have a new drunken twin. Who agrees?

Final Fantasy the History

This history of one of the most well known RPG franchises is a fascinating look at the development Final Fantasy through the years. If only I could complete FFVII.

Excellent nosh

Newsflash: Eighth Harry Potter book announced.

Oh frabjous day.

Triumph Rocket III - 21st Century Motorcycle Manufacture

I never wanted to get my motorcycle license until now.

Danny Boy

And now I'm feeling homesick.