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Holy Fuck – Red Lights (via youngturksrecords) This may well be my new favorite band.

This is about a week old, but I’m just getting to last week’s Digg Digest now… Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel

This completely made my night.  Wish it was a real film. Hat tip to @allisonr via @SusanVLewis, but you can also read about it on @Mashable: “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” Fake Trailer Goes Viral [VIDEO]… It does raise an interesting question: the people who don’t think this is funny (or, alternately, bloody brilliant), are they unfamiliar with Fight […]

This is brilliance manifest. BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. via @10timesone | Back in Blu — Italian artist takes control of your mind, again

This is a brilliantly-crafted interactive game via YouTube, that works like a choose-your-own-adventure story for Twilight: Eclipse.  Click on the choices and you can actually steer the story a different way.  Oh, and it’s done in old school 8-bit NES style. Update: In an amazing display of ignorance and thick-headedness, Summit Entertainment, LLC removed 8-Bit […]

This new Amnesty International ad is gorgeous and inspired.  Gets the message across while being appropriately eerie and unsettling.  Which, given the subject matter, it should be. The folks who did this ad also did this crazy dog short (also awesome): “birds” (pleix) from pleix on Vimeo.

via @HuffingtonPost The Great BP Coffee Spill (VIDEO)

this makes me sick: today, wikileaks released a military video and transcript they acquired depicting US helicopters gunning down a group of Reuters journalists in Iraq. the cameras slung over their shoulders were mistaken as AK-47s and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades). the video is 3 years old, from 2007, so it’s irrelevant to get up in […]

okay, let’s put an and to this ridiculous debate. there is a feud raging across the internet about whether the original “funny chatroulette piano” video is ben folds.  i’ve taken some heat on digg for suggesting that, um, yeah, it is.  so, let’s — just for the sake of argument — pretend that we don’t […]

this video makes me feel like i’m on drugs. in Helvetica. Experiment with helvetica + particular 2.0 Music : “The Genesis Project” by Intense

NPH says there might be a Dr. Horrible sequel? a feature-length, not on the internet, film, at that? i’m there. via @scifiwire