I’m sure at some point, whether it held 3 or 5 or 25, almost all of us owned some sort of CD changer. And when I was young I remember my mom having a record player that could hold something like three or 4 at a time. But until today, I don’t remember ever having …
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The Safety Dance, The Literal Video
It’s been a long ass time since we’ve watched a literal music video, so let’s enjoy the Safety Dance.
Black Or White, The Floppotron Edition
I don’t seem to have much to say today, so how about we watch the Floppotron try its hand at Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” while I go back to doing stuff that most of you will never notice unless I don’t do it one day? That was fun.
Fact-Checker, Fact-Checker
Here’s another one from Randy Rainbow, A.K.A. the Desperate Cheeto guy. Something occurred to me as I watched this. I laughed because it was funny, but I couldn’t escape the feeling that some of the references seemed way out of date. It was similar to the one I would get in 2009 while sitting at …
A Demonstration Of The Voder, The World’s First Speech Synthesizer
Long ago, Carin put up audio of a history of different speech synthesizers meant to show how the technology has evolved through the years. Included in that demonstration was the Voder, a device first shown by Bell Labs in 1939. What you heard back then was only a few seconds of it, but because the …
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Best News Bloopers Of 2017, Part Two
Here’s the second part of the 2017 news blooper compilation. You can catch up on part one here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyUxKuvYKY The weather is kind of like Harvey Weinstein today… And before any of my fellow blind kids ask, the answer is no, I have no idea what’s going on with the music that keeps cutting in …
Part One Of 2017’s Best News Bloopers, Plus A Bonus Song Parody
In some ways 2017 felt like one giant, never ending news blooper, but things weren’t all misery, believe it or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD3DjN7i1Fg Oh, like on a playground! And to the folks taking on the one chip challenge, this one’s for you. lyrics and a play button are here, in case the embedded player doesn’t work …
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2016’s Best News Bloopers, Part 2
Again, 2016 isn’t a typo. This really is the second part of the 2016 news blooper compilation I’ve had sitting here but never posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owH9d-hGjlo Lots of Freudian slips and innuendo in this one, plus hand lotion kid isn’t fooling anyone and he knows it.
A Year In News Bloopers
As the mixed bag of 2017 gives way to the opportunity and renewal of 2018, it is time to look back and reflect on the year that was 2016. No friends, that is not a typographical error on my part. It seems I never got around to posting the damn news blooper compilation for that …
Jingle Pins
Nothing says holiday season quite like dot matrix printers programmed to play Jingle Bells, so let us all take a few moments to enjoy that now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0S2ZRlM9qY Oh, and merry Christmas to all of you from Carin and I. Thanks for being such great family, friends, acquaintances and people we don’t know.