Monstrous Wildlife: Graboids

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

A terrific animated short film riffing on the Tremors series of films. Stick around to the very end for a cagey reference to The Giant Claw.

6 things about the internet that make me want to stop using it.

1. Link-bait articles with SEO-optimized titles like “6 things about the internet that make me want to stop using it.”

 

2. That goddam Facebook “like” button popping up everywhere. Please stick it up your ass.

    

    

3. Anything that mentions Apple or the iPhone. Buy one or don’t buy one, and then shut the hell up. I’m even tired of hearing myself talk about it. I promise to stop.

    

4. Your passion about what is either the greatest movie you’ve seen in the last five minutes or is an overrated piece of garbage. (Cough cough Dogtooth ahherrrm Trash Humpers garble Inception cough!)

    

5. Kickstarter campaigns.

    

    

6. Social media “tips.” No one knows a damn thing about how this all works, so stop pretending.

Please now feel free to argue about what things I left off the list, or whether number three should have been number one. I dare you.

Another hilarious Taiwanese iPhone video

Via Daring Fireball.

The iPhone antenna song

If you don’t want an iPhone 4
Don’t buy it
If you bought one and you don’t like it
Bring it back
Bring it back bring it back

This opened today’s iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Pretty funny stuff. I don’t have an iPhone 4 yet, but all this silly coverage hasn’t changed my intention to get one eventually.

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.

Fantastic.

Bad News – new short from Singletree Productions

A new short from the creators of Simmons on Vinyl – starring Mark Potts, Cole Selix, and John Merriman. And a very patient dog.

Sesame Street Song of Wonder

Prepare to have your mind blown. My love of Sesame Street is well known, but this is classic stuff. One of the best mashups yet.

Via BoingBoing.

IRON BABY is coming to kick your ass.

Hilarious.

Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

From Douglas Adams 1999 article “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet”

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

Read DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet.

(Via Kottke.)

We Built Sioux City on Rock n Roll

The latest travesty in chamber of commerce videos: take one of the worst songs of the ’80s and throw at it the following: TV news anchors, cheerleaders, and local athletes. Can’t fail!