Our news media is already difficult to follow when you’re listening to it normally, but what if you’re watching it somewhere without any kind of volume, voice, or sound for context. Then you get this hilarious result, which was exemplified by The Daily Show in this awesome sketch called News at the Gym.
Tags: funny, gym, Jason Jones, Jon Stewart, media, News, The Daily Show, Video
Now wait a minute, wait a minute! That says “2005 in Review.” Isn’t it like, um, a few years off? Well, this video is actually a blast from the past–a funny short produced two years ago by the folks at JibJab, featuring Bush recapping his year 2005 to the song “Turkey in the Straw.” I loved this very clever video and I loved rediscovering it today on YouTube, and wanted to embed it here for your enjoyment.
Tags: 2005, Bush, cartoon, funny, JibJab, new year, review, Video, YouTube
The folks at Bill Me Later have started up their own viral web video campaign, called Operation Fruitcake. The goal of this video campaign is to find as many ways as possible to rid the world of the holiday scourge, known as fruitcake, that everyone likes to buy but no one likes to eat. One of their videos comes from Will It Blend?, as they blend up fruitcake along with everything else that you don’t need anymore thanks to Bill Me Later.
If you’re one of the anti-fruitcakers in the world, you might want to keep an eye on Operation Fruitcake this holiday season. I know that I’ll be keeping watch (and taking notes…).
Tags: Bill Me Later, fruitcake, funny, holidays, Videos, Will it Blend?, YouTube
Super Bowl may be when everyone pays attention to TV advertisements, but this Aflac ad that I saw the other day was awesome. It’s done in the style of the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and the voices and the animation is perfect next to the real thing. This has to be one of my favorite TV ads.
Tags: advertisement, Aflac, funny, insurance, Rudolph, television, Video, YouTube
Bill Nye the Science Guy is awesome. This clip is one of the music parodies he does at the end of each of his shows (which, if you haven’t seen his old show, is awesome). The show was taking about the heart and blood, which brings us to this parody of the song “Love Shack.” Now I’m not saying that I even like the song “Love Shack,” but having heard it around every once and awhile, this was certainly a great parody of that video, very funny.
Tags: Bill Nye, blood stream, body, funny, heart, Love Shack, music video, parody, science, Video, YouTube
I just had to highlight this latest Joy of Tech that just came out, which looks at the claims that Facebook is worth $15 billion. (Should YouTube be getting jealous?) However, what I like about the comic is the representation of Facebook in the middle of the strip about the annoying high school friends. Not that I think that any of my friends at high school are annoying, quite the contrary in fact, but I do think that Facebook is weird with the pokes and the wall and the werewolf stuff and all that crazy nonsense, and this comic represents that rather well. Given my, erm, uncanny experiences with Facebook, I really got a kick out of this comic.
Update: Fixed bad link. Thanks Skoker!
Tags: comic, experiences, Facebook, funny, Joy of Tech, money, sale, Web 2.0
Today is my 16th birthday, which basically means it’s the last day that I can say that I’m 15 years old. Not that I would though, because that would confuse people. However, in reality, I don’t actually turn 16 until 8:33 PM Pacific time tonight, so I’m theoretically still 15 for the next fourteen hours after I post this. WHATEVER. I’M 16 NOW, OKAY? 
But just so you can get in on it, I thought I’d highlight some funny birthday eCards for you to enjoy. These come from the wonderful folks at AmericanGreetings.com, the creators of the singing turkey eCards that come out every Thanksgiving. I really liked Midieval Birthday Wish, Old Guy’s Pick-up Lines, and Do Birthdays Suck? Quiz.
There’s some exciting stuff happening this weekend. Not only will I have a long long long to-do list to tackle, but tomorrow, David Lewis and I will be interviewing Eric Faerber (wGEric) on phpBB Weekly, and then on Sunday, I’m hoping that we’ll be able to record a great episode of PreviewCast, featuring a number of reviews of new things! (Subject to change depending on if certain people show up.)
I’m certainly hoping/planning to have a better birthday this year than I did last year! 
Tags: 16th, birthday, eCards, funny, interview, phpBB Weekly, Podcasts, PreviewCast
Jon Stewart is awesome. I will never understand why a silly show like this can actually find and report the actual news of what’s going on while the rest of the US media acts like a big propaganda machine, but this clip of Jon Stewart covering Dave Petraeus’ Iraq Report has to be the best Daily Show clip I’ve ever seen.
Tags: Daily Show, Dave Petraeus, funny, Iraq, Jon Stewart, media, News, Video, YouTube
This is one of David Pogue’s older web videos, one in which he talks about podcasting and then acts out a number of audio podcasts that you can find on iTunes. This is a really hilarious video which I’m sure all the other podcasters out there will enjoy. Check out the video.
More W87.info content will be making its way here soon…
Tags: acting, David Pogue, funny, podcasting, Video
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