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Video: Scooping dog crap for votes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2iC-kVZYo8&hl=en&fs=1] Metaphors about experience aside, there’s got to be a better way to gain Alaskan votes than showing yourself prancing around the backyard with your dogs, scooping up their crap. Politico has this and nine other worst of the worst offerings from this year’s campaign season, including one from another Alaskan who stares at the camera, […]
Video: Call + Response trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-0CHXfyIk&hl=en&fs=1]
Video: Wassup 2008
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] And in case you don’t remember the original: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L38wthA4Ld0&hl=en&fs=1] (Hat tip: Boing Boing)
Video: Neil Halstead – Paint A Face
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Video: Danielson – Idiot Boksen
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wFHYnvCeM&hl=en&fs=1] This new take on a Danielson oldie was animated by Tom Eaton, who recently talked to the Sounds Familyre blog. “Idiot Boksen” will be re-released along with many others from the Danielson back catalog Nov. 4 on Trying Hartz, a double-disc Secretly Canadian retrospective.
Video: Playing the banjo during brain surgery
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjX6ErmKY14&hl=en&fs=1] (Hat tip: Boing Boing)
Video: MacHeads trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfZsiQ8CclE&hl=en&fs=1] Coming this fall, a documentary about the people who take their computers a little too seriously.
News and Notes: Soldiers of Conscience making PBS debut
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DRVPB65zH8&hl=en&fs=1] A documentary (see excerpted clip above) that explores the inner moral and spiritual struggles of soldiers in wartime makes its national debut tonight on PBS at 9 p.m. eastern time. From the plot synopsis on PBS’s Point of View Web site: Soldiers of Conscience is a dramatic window on the dilemma of individual U.S. […]