Archive for November, 2007

Video trafficbaiting: Kanye West - “Good Life”

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Even though I’m from his town, for the longest time I would see his name and say ‘who the crap is Kanye West?’ Then I downloaded bought his discography and see where all the hype is. Now here’s the video for his new single “Good Life,” featuring T-Pain, in both embedded Flash and downloadable high-resolution […]

Meditations on Black Friday

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

It’s 5:30 a.m. and I’m warm, comfortable and very, very asleep. Somewhere in town out there, Drew Peterson is being a douche. Elsewhere in town, cheap people are coming out of their houses to save a few bucks on TVs and toys.
That’s right, it’s Black Friday again. For retail workers it’s a nightmare. For chintzy […]

The Max Headroom Incident, 20 years later

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

On November 22, 1987 at 11:15 p.m., Dr. Who fans tuned in to WTTW11 in Chicago were treated to one of the most bizarre occurences in television history: The original broadcast faded out and was replaced by video of an anonymous signal hijacker donning a mask bearing the likeness of TV character Max Headroom. After […]

To OS X Leopard users with any sense of taste…

Friday, November 16th, 2007

…there’s finally a decent (read: not completely stupid) way to disable Leopard’s absolutely atrocious translucent menubar without painting a silly white stripe across the top of your wallpaper. Thank you so much to Steve Miner for finally figuring it out, and a commenter on MacOSXHints for making it into one easy-to-swallow Terminal command:

After a […]

Absolutely awesome aerial videos

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Flying remote-controlled aircraft is one thing. Strapping a video camera an RC plane and creating beautiful aerial flight videos is quite another. Check out some of these awesome examples.

And some more that I can’t embed…

The people who make these things obviously have a lot of a. time and b. money to blow on expensive HDV […]