Friday Link Dump
- Tom made The Mob!
- 13 Most Embarrassing Web Mistakes.
- Great pictures of souvenirs imposed over the real locations.
- An interview with Steven Wright. His recent Comedy Contral special was bleeping hilarious. Keep an eye out for a repeat of it, if you missed it. If the phrase “Ouija Board of Directors” is funny to you, it’ll be right up your alley.
- The NY Times talks to some video podcasters.
- The first four episodes of ’24′ will be out on DVD the day after they finish airing on TV. I guess if you’re TiVo is REALLY full at that point, you can buy the episodes right away.
- If you’re lost in the woods, your iPod might save your life.
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24. November 2006 at 11:21
Steven Wright is awesome. I read this interview in the Onion a few weeks ago (gotta love living in a place where I can pick up the print version along with my weekly comic book fix), and made a mental note to find out when Comedy Central would be airing the special. I immediately forgot said note. D’oh!
I don’t remember where I first got exposed to his work; probably was a special on HBO or something. As an aside, there also another special on HBO that I remember watching — opened up with the comic playing a guy who had no-depth perception. Said comic also played multiple characters and included a bit involving plastic tubes. Bob… something. Anyone know what I’m talking about?
The 24 DVD will exist as a fall-back plan for my friend and me. We’re both on a cruise during 24′s premiere are we both watch 24, so if neither of us get it recorded (due to mechanical or memory failure), that’s a nice option. Maybe when we get back, we’ll end up watching 4 hours of the Jack Bauer Power Hour. Or maybe we’ll just unpack and collapse.
Somehow I knew what #1 on that embarassing Web moments would be. And I can’t disagree with it.
24. November 2006 at 16:33
I first heard about Steven Wright back in high school in the late ’80s — a friend passed me a tape of his stuff. Hilarious. I caught the Comedy Central show thanks to Augie’s note, and it’s his usual sort of stuff, bizarre yet strangely intuitive.
The Embarrassing Web Moments List is really nice, though there seems to me to be a distinction between things specific to the web (like the pre-obit pages accidentally being available, or the thumbnails of cropped photos containing the uncropped images), and things which are more TV bloopers (the the accidentally live anchor mike) which were just spread further via the web.
I love the Souvenir Photos too. Neat stuff.