{"id":3616,"date":"2006-07-22T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T21:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/07\/22\/3616.html"},"modified":"2006-07-22T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T21:49:22","slug":"video-roundup-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/07\/22\/video-roundup-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Video roundup, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in.  So here's a whole bunch of them.  Sorry so many; I tried breaking them up into categories to reduce the overwhelmingness, and I split the total set in half (I'll post part 2 tomorrow).<\/p>\n<p>Parodies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preview of <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=7249104291486736993\"><cite>C for Cookie<\/cite><\/a>, the <cite>V for Vendetta<\/cite> remake for the kindergarten set.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videosift.com\/story.php?id=1146\">Jack Black\/Sarah Michelle Gellar <cite>LotR<\/cite> parody<\/a>, apparently done for the MTV Movie Awards, and apparently featured on one of the LotR DVDs.  Warning: the word \"penis\" and related concepts figure prominently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joss Whedon-related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs\">Joss Whedon's speech<\/a> as an honoree at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalitynow.org\/\">Equality Now<\/a> event, about the question reporters often ask him: \"Why do you write these strong women characters?\"  Worth watching all the way through.  (The first two minutes are Meryl Streep talking about Whedon's mother; that part is interesting too, but if you're short on time you can skip ahead to Whedon's arrival onstage.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=1164195980357405980\">Geek Week interviews some guy dressed up as Joss Whedon<\/a> at Wizard World LA 2006.  This is the full 15-minute episode of Geek Week (not just the excerpt that was posted elsewhere); the first half features a running joke in which Jack, one of the three interviewers, tries to find Joss Whedon to interview him but keeps failing.  By halfway through, Jack has discovered (after a long time standing in line) that Joss Whedon isn't actually present at the con.  So start watching around 8:39 (when Jack's producer confronts him about Whedon's absence) and continue through to 14:10. (For those who wondered, it's very clear in the full version that Geek Week was in on the joke.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology, machines, and Microsoft-bashing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-YedWtX9tKE\">John Hodgman of the Daily Show explains Net Neutrality<\/a>.  (You can also view this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/videos\/john_hodgman\/index.jhtml\">Comedy Central<\/a>, but I had trouble viewing that version on a Mac.)  This segment is much funnier if you've watched a few of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/\">recent Apple anti-PC ads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.cornell.edu\/raff\/InteractiveDynamicArt\/InteractiveDynamicArt.htm\">Interactive artwork called \"The Table\"<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mae.cornell.edu\/raff\/index.htm\">Raffaello D'Andrea<\/a> and Canadian artist Max Dean.  It's a robot table, designed as an art installation, that fixates on a particular person among a group of visitors and follows that person around.  It's controlled by a computer, and its sensing is done by a camera in the ceiling.  See also <a href=\"http:\/\/offsite.wdg.us\/mae\/Raff\/InteractiveDynamicArt\/ChairJan06Short.wmv\">self-reassembling robotic chair<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of brief segments from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transbuddha.com\/mediaHolder.php?id=1679\">Pythagoras Switch<\/a> (\"pitagora suicchi,\" which is what the katakana characters say at the end of each segment), a Japanese kids' show featuring tiny Rube Goldberg-like devices.  A total of about 13 minutes.  If you want to see the other kinds of things they have on the show, you can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-664493411424324244\">Algorithm March! with Ninja<\/a>, or a complete (?) <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=2435046286370275454\">15-minute episode<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=36099539665548298\">If Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging<\/a>.  (I think I read somewhere that this was actually created in-house by Microsoft designers as a what-not-to-do, but I can't find the reference for that.)<\/li>\n<li>New Microsoft technology lets you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ry7u6JF_B1c\">punish a Microsoft developer<\/a>.  (Watch for the name of the guy who shows up at 2:37.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-3934788900154749704\">Bush Pilot documentary<\/a>; blatantly partisan and anti-Bush, but pretty funny and nicely done.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs\">Multi-input touch screen demo<\/a>.  (Despite what various people have said, this isn't Apple-related.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Video games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=239952380668524008\">Human Space Invaders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2139555376132383479\">Super Mario Brothers live<\/a> at Gordon College in Wenham, MA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Misc:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mHl6QkC9__8\">Stone golem costume<\/a>.  (Very brief.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. 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