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Test Your Powers of Observation

2008-03-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

I got the count right, but I missed the thing I wasn't looking for. How about you?

The Colbert-Spitzer Connection

2008-03-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

Stephen reveals his connection to the Spitzer scandal with an uncomfortable reference to something called a "Spitzer sandwich." Sound like something that could put you off your lunch.

Baby Diaper Mustache

2008-03-10T10:21:00.000-07:00

Warning: Language and just plain foul unimaginable grossness.

Maybe I'm just too old to get this stuff. I can admit that. The whole Jackass genre of comedy. Ok, I admit the first time I saw it I was channel surfing, and came across it on MTV. I fell out of bed laughing. I can remember, I was in a hotel room with my girlfriend at the time, and we both bust a gut laughing. It was novel and we spent the whole time just trying to figure out what it was and why it was on TV. But it was funny. Now, several, and I couldn't tell you how many because I'm really not paying attention, Jackass movies later, after a huge website launch I'm trying to figure out why it's still funny.

Humor is obviously subjective. Well this humor is actually objective, and objectionable. And it's not that it bothers me. It doesn't. I don't care. I admit, I did laugh. I just can't figure out why people do it to themselves for a laugh. And then maybe I'm a hypocrite, because I did post it. I almost didn't. Actually I don't know why I'm posting it. Maybe for the same reason someone would do it.

Sir Charles Blasts "Fake" Christians

2008-02-18T07:56:00.000-08:00

Love him or hate him, you have to give Sir Charles credit for always speaking his mind. It's not always a virtue, but you can't say that he ever lied about how he felt.

It's Torture Talk - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

2008-02-16T07:27:00.000-08:00

This time Jon examine's Senator Arlen Specter's priorities.

Hehehe, She Said Vagina

2008-02-16T07:02:00.001-08:00

Above is video of Jane Fonda letting the "C" word slip in an interview with Meredith Viera on the Today Show on NBC. Below is the entire interview with Eve Enslser, author of The Vagina Monologues, and Jane. More important than Jane's slip, although the slip was the reason it was posted on Huffington Post and how I found it, is the reason for the interview. To promote V Day, an organization that fights violence against women. The organization's web site is www.vday.org.

The Internet Freedom Preservation Act

2008-02-13T16:42:00.001-08:00

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The Internet Freedom Preservation Act is being introduced in Congress by Representative Ed Markey (D-MA). You can help get your congresspersons to support it. Find out how at http://savetheinternet.com/.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

2008-02-13T15:00:00.000-08:00

The trailer is hilarious, can't wait to see the movie. From the Youtube description:

New trailer for Morgan Spurlock's upcoming documentary 'Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?'
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If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style. So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple -- he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with.

The Weinstein Company
http://whereisobl.com/

Stephen Colber on Obama's Biggest Win

2008-02-13T14:02:00.000-08:00

Colbert on Obama's Grammy win.

Maryland Primary Election Results

2008-02-12T16:45:00.000-08:00

NBC and CNN project Barack Obama winner of the Maryland Democratic Primary by a substantial margin. Both networks also project John McCain the winner on the GOP side.

Washington DC Primary Election Results

2008-02-12T16:44:00.000-08:00

NBC and CNN project Barack Obama winner of the Washington DC Democratic Primary. The Republican race is too early to call.

Update:
John McCain is the winner of the DC Primary.

Virginia Primary Election Results

2008-02-12T16:29:00.000-08:00

NBC and CNN project Barack Obama winner of the Virginia Democratic Primary by a substantial margin. The Republican race is still too close to call.

Update:
Both NBC and CNN project John McCain the winner of Virginia's Republican Primary.

McCain Parody Video

2008-02-12T10:21:00.000-08:00

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This video is a parody of the Barack Obama campaign's Yes We Can video.

Colbert in the Garden of Good and Evil

2008-02-12T10:19:00.000-08:00

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A primer on good and evil with Stephen Colbert and band leader Guy Lombardo...wait a minute, sorry, it's professor and author Phillip Zimbardo. He's the author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007). About the book Dr. Zimbardo says on his web site, http://www.lucifereffect.org/:

In this book, I summarize more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm" which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan.

Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts. As part of this account, The Lucifer Effect tells, for the first time, the full story behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, a now-classic study I conducted in 1971. In that study, normal college students were randomly assigned to play the role of guard or inmate for two weeks in a simulated prison, yet the guards quickly became so brutal that the experiment had to be shut down after only six days.

It's from The Colbert Report, Monday February, 11, 2008.

The B Word

2008-02-11T07:55:00.001-08:00

Recently the punditry and the Democratic leadership have been worrying their little heads off about the possibility of a brokered convention in August. According to them it would be bad. Real bad. There would be party bosses huddled in smoke-filled rooms, actually smoke-free rooms this time, but that spoils the imagery. And they'd be making deals. Back room deals. The kind of deals that would disaffect the party faithful and lead to disaster in November. As evidence that a brokered convention would be bad they cite the last two brokered conventions that happened way back in the olden days. I could provide a link, but hey, you got fingers, google it or look it up in Wikipedia. Trust me, it happened and it was bad.

With the momentum Barack Obama is gaining from this weekend's sweeps of primaries and caucuses in Washington, Nebraska, Louisiana, Maine and the Virgin Islands, talk of a long drawn out campaign could be moot. But if Hillary Clinton should make a comeback as expected in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, making it a horse race to the end, would that necessarily be all bad? It does mean that the candidates will spend time, energy and resources (read: money) fighting each other and not John McCain. And there is also the possibility that the dreaded superdelegates could pick the candidate least favored by the voting public and cause a rift in the party. On the other hand, there are some good things are happening now, and could happen as the result of a real fight to the end.

First, there's the excitement and the participation of Democratic voters in primaries and caucuses in record numbers. A percentage of participation much higher than Republican participation, which is waning. This race has people excited in a way they have not been in a long time. It's much more exciting and generates more news cycles than anything happening on the Republican side. And as Barack Obama frequently states in his stump speech, it's not all because of the candidates. Seven years of George Bush has something to do with it.

Secondly, it would be historic. It hasn't happened since...uhm...I thought I told you to google it. As long as the campaign doesn't turn nasty, which is a possibility as candidates get desperate, but not if they are thinking in the best interest of the party and the country (country should be first). And as long as the decision of the superdelegates does not disaffect the majority. As long as voters don't feel like they did in 2004 after Florida and hanging chads, I think we will be fine.

Polls indicate 84% of Democrats will support either candidate. And the idea of a dream ticket, whether it's Obama/Clinton, or Clinton/Obama, seems to excite Democrats even more. I wonder if there are any polls that pit a dream ticket against McCain and anybody else? It would probably be a landslide. And that possibility might force the candidates to consider it.

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So I don't think the pundits, John Dean and Donna "I get two votes" Brazile need to worry their pretty little heads so much over a having brokered convention, as much as how we have one, should it come down to that.

From the "Judging a Book by Its Cover" Department

2008-02-11T05:39:00.001-08:00

Researchers accurately predicted the results of Super Tuesday's elections in August of last year using Australian and New Zealand school girls' snap judgments of whether the candidates looked competent.

Researchers Scott Armstrong, Kesten Green, Randy Jones, and Malcolm Wright had their interest piqued by the work of Alexander Todorov.

“Todorov and co had found that snap judgments of competence based on color pictures of candidates’ faces did a good job of predicting congressional and senate races,” Prof Wright said.

“So the Wharton team decided to extend the test to the current US presidential election and from May through mid-August 2007 we worked with them to get ratings of competence, based on photos of the faces of the 24 potential contenders for their parties’ nomination as candidate for the 2008 presidential election.”

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Only a little bit scary to think that the entire process of picking a president could boil down to who looks presidential. Australian and New Zealand school girls were picked precisely because they did not know the candidates. The results of those who recognized a candidate were discounted. The full article is here.

First Prediction of Winner of Maine Caucuses - Obama

2008-02-10T15:21:00.000-08:00

Arevolutionofone Projects Obama Winner of Maine Caucuses. Based on 59% of the caucus voting returns and, although we are unable to conduct exit polls, we are also basing our projection on some creakiness in our joints that also crops up when it's about to rain, we are calling the Maine causes for Barack Obama. We planned to read chicken entrails but that would make the PETA folks go nuts. Barack Obama, according to Arevolutionofone blog, is the winner of the Maine caucuses.

Based on 59% reporting, Obama leads in state delegates 1,305 (57%) to 956 (42%) for Hillary Clinton. Here's a link to results from CNN.

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Update:
With 70% reporting Obama leads 1,564 (58%) to 1,122 (41%) for Clinton.

Possible End to Writer's Strike Today

2008-02-10T05:20:00.001-08:00

I almost posted some boring MSNBC video about writers considering and voting on the newest proposal to end the strike and that some may be back at work as soon as Monday. In fact I may post it below. Instead I searched Youtube and found something not only more interesting, but that makes their case in the most convincing way that I've seen to date (not that I needed to be convinced).

The video above was posted last fall soon after the strike began, but it demonstrates what pricks the studios are for causing the strike, and for letting it last so long when it was the only fair thing to do. Not to mention the fact that they screwed the writers on their last deal for a share of DVD sales. These are the studios that put out the anti-piracy ads telling us how people are stealing from them when they copy their movies and TV shows. But the studios are not stealing when they don't pay the people who wrote them. They're just being tough minded business negotiators. When you think about how this business has treated artists, those anti-piracy ads should make you laugh. Or if you're a writer, they might make you cry. Now, here's that boring MSNBC video.

Much Ado 'Bout Pimpin'

2008-02-10T05:19:00.001-08:00

This would be funny if it wasn't sad and a little bit silly. Ok, sorry, it really is funny.

Update:
Ok, not to dump on Chelsea Clinton, but while we are on the topic; I found this at Crooks and Liars. This really is sad and not at all funny. And not surprisingly, it was said by John McCain back in 1998.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

I guess the point being made is that this is a lot worse than what David Schuster said. Point taken. The real question might be, why is John McCain so ugly? And we're not just talking about his looks.

Clean Sweep of Saturday's Primaries & Caucuses for Obama

2008-02-09T19:35:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama makes a clean sweep of the primaries and caucuses tonight, Saturday February 09, 2008, with wins in Washington state, Nebraska, Louisiana and the Virgin Islands.

Links to Results from CNN:

Louisiana
Nebraska
Washington

Digg Search Sucks - Updated

2008-02-09T07:57:00.001-08:00

How many times have you found a story you want to Digg, entered it into the search to see if it is a duplicate, found no matching results? So you took the time to enter the whole story, to have it Digg through your submission, entered a title, a witty description, selected a topic, proved that you are indeed a flesh and blood human being only to have it search for duplicates and find one???

And it's not that someone happens to be submitting the story the same time you are. With this story, http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/japan.sumo/index.html, I searched again using only "Sumo". I got 3 articles, none of them the matching this story. I asked it to include buried stories and got four results returned. None matching. I even searched on the link itself. No matches. Yet here is the story with the word "Sumo" in the title, http://www.digg.com/world_news/Sumo_hazing_allegations_rock_Japan. Why can't you do the search for dups on the link first instead of wasting your time? Has anyone else experienced this?

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Update:It turns out that the initial search from the top nav bar only searches the front page stories. You have to go to the search page and explicitly choose to search all stories. You wouldn't assume that the top nav search would only search the front page. What real value is that? But it's good to know the search works.

Oddball - Naughty Cops Caught on Tape

2008-02-09T06:30:00.000-08:00

Oddball segment from February 8, 2008, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Cops caught on tape copping a feel from a young woman apparently in custody. Caught on their own station house camera. A twist on the basic dumb criminals story. Bad cops, bad cops, whatcha gonna do...?

I gotta say that I love the fact that the MSM is finally waking up to the fact that there's the internets and blogs out there and are allowing us lowly bloggers to embed content. It's funny sometimes how they do it, as if it's something new they discovered and are legitimizing it. And it's funny for example to hear Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty discussing their blogs. Or Anderson Cooper talk about live blogging during commercials, shouldn't he be preparing for the next segment? I wonder when CNN will get a clue and allow their video to be embedded.

I like it for partially selfish reasons. Because it saves me time from having to rip their content and upload it to Youtube. But it's a win win. Instead of fighting the whole blogosphere to keep their content in one tiny place on the web, they get much more exposure and many more people viewing their video. Plus a link back to their site, with their high priced advertising to make their filthy lucre and everyone, including moi, and hopefully you out there, is happy.

Thank you MSNBC. Get a clue CNN. I don't know if ABC, CBS, or Faux News are doing it. But your intrepid blogger will surf to the ends of the internets, by googling their links from the couch, to find out.

Update:
CBS is a yes, ABC and Faux allow links and email, but no embed.

The Daily Show - Author Laton McCartney Interview

2008-02-09T06:15:00.000-08:00

Author Laton McCartney describes some of the colorful characters from one of America's biggest political scandals, in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Choke Classic 18-1 T-shirt from Zazzle.com

2008-02-08T09:30:00.000-08:00

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This is the best dig at the 18-1 New England Patriots I have seen to date. It's available here.

Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart Brawl

2008-02-08T09:18:00.000-08:00

The climax or probably the longest running, serial, cable network v. broadcast network, comedy bit, in the history of television. It ends in a knock-down, drag out, brawl between Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart. It's a scream.

The Daily Show - Super Hump Day

2008-02-08T09:13:00.000-08:00

Jon condenses more than six hours' worth of Super Tuesday tedium and refuses to be pigeonholed as part of a special interest vote.

Daily Show Interview - Tom Brokaw

2008-02-07T16:48:00.001-08:00

Jon Stewart interviews erstwhile NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.

We Gots Widgets - Pimp My Blog

2008-02-07T16:37:00.000-08:00

We just spent half the day pimping out the blog with widgets and a few new features. I started out to add a couple things this morning and tweaked out on it. So here's what we got now:

You can watch Comedy Central Daily Show clips in the side bar to the right. I will also add them to regular posts as well.
You can see the updated 2008 Presidential Primary Election Delegate counts via MSNBC's widget, also in the sidebar.
You can get headlines from Google's Newsreel (above). You can click on a headline to view the article.
There will be the occasional cheesy, meaningless, unscientific poll, like the ones you see on CNN and other news sites, and on Daily Kos. The current one is on which version of the Dem Dream ticket you'd rather see. Also in the sidebar.
We have that Snap Shots dealie so that when you mouse over a link you see a preview of the site it links to. Schweet.

Comments are invited. Enjoy.

Yes We Can! Si Se Puede!

2008-02-04T17:08:00.001-08:00

Link to the video.
BarackObama.com.

Kyra Phillips Reverse Oreo Comment

2008-01-31T07:35:00.000-08:00

CNN news anchor Kyra Phillips jokes about making a "reverse oreo" with co-anchor Don Lemon and "Open House" show host, Gerri Willis.

Caroline Kennedy Campaign Ad for Obama

2008-01-29T20:32:00.000-08:00

Caroline Kennedy's campaign commercial for Barack Obama. Airing in 2008 Super Duper Tuesday Primary states just a week before the election. Yes we can! Si se puede!

Burning Laser Hack

2007-08-26T12:35:00.001-07:00

Laser Flashlight Hack! - Funny videos are here

Love these hack videos. This is one of the coolest. There are others at http://www.kipkay.com. There's one to hack an Easy Button to make it say anything you want. One to make an underwater housing for a video camera. One to double your gas mileage. One cooler than the next. Not only cool but they will save you some money.b

Rescue Internet Radio: Sign the Petition

2007-03-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

This is just a cut & paste job of email I got from freepress.net. Just passing it on.

Rescue Internet Radio: Sign the Petition
Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.

The "Copyright Royalty Board" is dramatically increasing the royalties "webcasters" must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially at risk.

The rules could shut down nonprofit and smaller commercial Internet radio outlets and force larger webcasters to play the same cookie-cutter music as Clear Channel. So much for new online alternatives.

This is not just another petition. The Copyright Royalty Board isn't used to hearing from the public, so your action can really make a difference. And we need to stop them before the new charges go into effect.

Artists must be compensated for their work. But the new regulations don't even differentiate between public outlets, small upstarts, and the largest commercial companies. The proposed increase would silence many outlets that play independent artists and musical genres you can't find anymore on the radio dial.

As soon as smaller webcasters start to attract a sizable audience, the royalty costs would be astronomical -- and likely fatal. And nonprofit stations like NPR should not be forced to pay so much money that they actually fear an increase in their listeners.

Industry-wide consolidation has destroyed musical diversity and shut out independent and local artists on broadcast radio. We can't let the same thing happen on the Internet.

The Copyright Royalty Board -- or if necessary, Congress -- needs to fix the rules so that artist and musicians thrive alongside a new generation of Internet radio webcasters. Send them a message by adding your name to our petition.

Tell Your Friends

Our goal is collect 50,000 signatures by Monday. Help us get there by telling all your friends that now is the time to take action.

Thanks for all you do,

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net

We Are the Media

2007-02-27T21:13:00.001-08:00

When I think about what I wrote in the last post, and I look at Zennie's video and I see so many cameras. So many people doing what he's doing. And so many people are doing it on Youtube and Google Video and Live Video and Revver and iFilm and so many other outlets, it makes you realize that in a sense we are becoming, or that we already are the media. That the old paradigm of waiting for some elite group of "journalists" to tell us what's news and what's not is fading slowly and thankfully away. We inform ourselves and we do a much more thorough and complete job of it than the conventional media, who are by definition not democratic and who, because of who owns them, and their closeness to power, must necessarily have their own agendas.

Barack Obama Hosted By Sen. Barbara Boxer In San Francisco

2007-02-27T14:31:00.000-08:00

This is a video by Zennie Abraham, one of the people I met at As One San Francisco. He's in one of the videos below. It is a great example of the kind of citizen journalism that Youtube has the potential to produce. And is producing. It gives us a view we don't always get from the conventional media. I'm still trying to get around to the videos of people I met at As One SF and as I do I'm more and more impressed.

Google is the Devil!!!

2007-02-24T11:33:00.000-08:00

This is priceless.

As One Gathering San Francisco - Part Cinq

2007-02-24T03:46:00.001-08:00

Last Saturday the Youtube community came together in San Francisco. We stepped out from the anonymity of our webcams, to met people in the flesh that we'd only seen as 425 by 350 pixels on a computer screen. As real people. Then we videotaped it so we could go home and watch it on our computers. Cause that's what we do. We're Youtubers. It was kind of like the Summer of Love for nerds. Peace.

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As One Gathering San Francisco - Part Sept

2007-02-24T03:42:00.001-08:00

Part 7 in the continuing saga of a bunch of Youtubers wandering around Pier 39, filming each other.

As One Gathering San Francisco - Part Six

2007-02-24T03:39:00.001-08:00

More of my video from As One in San Francisco. This is some random footage mostly of Renetto.

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Does YouTube Have Celebrities?

2007-02-24T03:36:00.001-08:00

A response video to Khayav, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1A2d_7EAaw.

Youtube As One Gathering - San Francisco Part Quatre

2007-02-24T01:55:00.001-08:00

Having some fun with Renetto at the As One gathering in san Francisco.

Youtube As One Gathering - San Francisco Part Trois

2007-02-23T16:18:00.000-08:00

Mr. Safety, is that a chicken between your legs...?

Youtube As One Gathering - San Francisco Part Deux

2007-02-23T16:14:00.000-08:00

Part Deux of my footage from the As One Youtube gathering in San Francisco. Spricket24 shakes her groove thang at the gathering after party.

Youtube As One Gathering - San Francisco Part Un

2007-02-23T16:09:00.001-08:00

My footage from the As One Youtube gathering in San Francisco last weekend. I am just getting it online. Am I lame or what?

2007-02-14T14:50:00.001-08:00

What every girl can expect for Valentine's Day. This one's especially for those ladies without a special someone today, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPc5KvdvAQ. A video response to tokenblackchic's E-Valentine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4Uzun4CKA.

Baby I Swear No Hot Chick Could Distract Me From....

2007-02-14T09:26:00.000-08:00

He swears to the maker of the "Guide to the Hot Chick", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJc3ze6Qjg, that he could never be distracted by a hot chick while sitting across from her. A response video to....

tubeworthy POTD

2007-02-06T14:59:00.001-08:00

My tubeworthy Pick Of The Day is kind of random. Just because I haven't posted one so far today. I was scouring the Internets searching for worthy videos, or was it that I was wasting time watching hours and hours worth of videos, and this one was one of the one's that appeared at the end of another video I was watching. You know how they put those two random videos which may or may not have anything to do with what you just watched up at the end of each video and they keep switching them. And recently I figured out you can flip back and forth through that list with the arrows. Ok, I would say I digress, but this entire exercise is digression.

Annnyyyywaaayyyy, I was researching videos of people I want to feature as artists (read that again, wasting time watching videos) and I clicked on this one because I had some ideas about using bluescreen and it was titled, Trying out GreenScreen. I looked at her profile and it said, "I am a very random girl...." So, it's not particularly impressive for anything but the fact that it is quintessentially Youtube. If that means anything at all. I think it does. And I like it. BTW, anyone featured here gets a free Premium version of our tubesurfer widget, a $9.95 value (wow!). We'd give t-shirts but we can't afford them. Now, go play with my widget! http://www.tubesurferwidget.com.

Our First Tubeworthy Artist Pick: HappySlip

2007-02-05T06:22:00.001-08:00

HappySlip, a one woman production team, is the true spirit of Youtube. Not to put down two or more person production teams, but to me this medium is especially for individual, talented, but low budget, artistic expression. Most of all it’s about fun. HappySlip is also funny, talented, and not at all hard on the eyes. Her videos are fun, with good production values and without an edge. Many feature hilarious, but loving, impersonations of her family. Especially her mother. I could say more about her, but her videos, especially HappySlip Vlog #1 (at right in the widget) tell her story much better than I can.

The featured video above is one of my favorites. It’s a one woman soap opera where she plays that cliché of all soap opera clichés, twins. One, of course, evil. Happyslip u r tubeworthy. So, r u tubeworthy? Know someone who is? Comment @ our blog at tubeworthy.com, or write us @ tubeworthy@tubesurferwidget.com. Now, go play with my widget.

Criswell Predicts Bears Over Colts in 1956

2007-02-03T16:44:00.000-08:00

This stunning Bears over Colts Superbowl prediction was made by the psychic The Amazing Criswell back in 1956. Making him without a doubt the world's first Superfan.

Our First Tubeworthy Pick: The Superfan Shuffle!

2007-02-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

I don't need to remind anyone that the Superbowl is tomorrow and that the greatest team in the history of the NFL ever (except for the 1985 Bears) Da Bears, are playing some other team (if that team even bothers to show up). La, la, la, la, la...I can't hear you saying Da Bears haven't won or been in a Superbowl since 1985 because I'm a Superfan and my fanship defies all logic or reality. Da Bears are great. Period. Ditka is the greatest coach ever and the Superbowl Trophy should be a Ditka. No disrespect to Vince Lombardi, he just happened to have coached the Packers. Nuff said.

But I need to get to the point. Do I have a point? No, a Superfan does not need a point. The video above Da Superfan Shuffle Music Video is Da tubesurfer's first ever pick of a tubeworthy video. More tubeworthy picks to come. Now, go play with my widget....

Update: Sadly as everyone knows by now, da Bearsss did not get it done yesterday. And without rehashing the whole sad affair I have to say I had a moment of clarity before the game as I watched hour upon hour of pre-game coverage on CBS. It was when they showed a shot of our Rex Grossman coming off the bus and walking down the hall to the locker room. Immediately afterward they showed the same shot of Peyton Manning. Not to dog Grossman, because he's a young quarterback and he will get better, but the man looked like he'd seen his own ghost. Manning looked like he was going to a business meeting. That told the whole story in advance.

Of course I immediately lost that perspective when Devin Hester ran back the first kickoff of the game for a TD. Again, I won't be one of those people to dump on Grossman here. He will improve, but the fact is, he'll never be a Peyton Manning. Manning is the QB of destiny and will be one of the NFL's greatest. Alas, I must say what Chicago sports fans have learned to say over the course of many years: Wait till next year!

Play With Our Widget - tubesurferwidget.com

2007-02-02T15:23:00.000-08:00

We here at tubesurfer have a serious problem. We can’t seem to stop playing with our widget. We think that if you play tubesurfer awhile, you’ll understand why. It’s an addictive mashup of Youtube, Myspace and Blogger. With tubesurfer, visitors to your profile can surf your Youtube videos on Myspace, the sidebar of your blog, on your vlog or almost anywhere you can go on the web. tubesurfer is like an iPod sized version of Youtube that you can use to feature all your videos, playlists, and Youtube’s list of featured videos. But that is not all. With tubesurfer premium visitors can surf the top 15 most viewed, most discussed and most favorited videos.
Soon all the kids will be sporting this sweet widget on their Myspace and Blogger pages. But you’ll have the chance to be the first kid on your block to have one. For our introductory offer of we are slashing the price from $19.95 to $9.95. We’d give it away but we’re all ready giving away the free version. However, we caution you in advance. You won’t be able to stop playing with it. Thank you.
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Criswell Predicts Widgets!

2007-02-02T15:22:00.000-08:00

tubesurfer Gear Is Here

2007-02-02T14:56:00.000-08:00

tubesurfer Gear

tubesurfer Free v tubesurfer Premium

2007-02-02T14:55:00.000-08:00

tubesurfer Free Features:

* Feature up to 100 of your Youtube videos.
* Feature 20 videos of any your Youtube playlists.
* Show Youtube’s top 25 Featured Videos.
* Mouse over the thumbnails to see a video’s details.
* Click a thumbnail or link to see the video on Youtube.
* Fits neatly in the sidebar of your blog, in a post, your Myspace profile, or anywhere you can embed Flash using HTML.
* It’s free to use.

tubesurfer Premium Features:

* Same as tubesurfer Free (except for the last one).
* Feature Youtube’s top 15 Most Viewed Videos.
* Feature Youtube’s top 15 Most Discussed Videos.
* Feature Youtube’s top 15 Most Favorited Videos.
* It’s only $9.95 now, slashed from $19.95 for our introductory offer.

Myspace Issues & Workaround

2007-02-02T14:52:00.000-08:00

Due to issues of security, Myspace attempts to disable links to outside websites in Flash applications in Myspace profiles. We say attempts because in some cases the links work, and in some they don’t. For example, we’ve found that with Flash 8, the links work in IE7, but not in Firefox 1.5. We understand Myspace’s desire to keep its users safe from malicious applications that may be hiding in seemingly harmless places. But we also feel it unfairly punishes the makers of legitimate and safe apps and their own Myspace community who can’t use them.
We have a very basic workaround for the problem above. There’s a link that will launch tubesurfer in a separate window on Myspace. Click the link below tubesurfer and the widget is launched in a separate window. Popups must be enabled and you will have to click the back button in the main window to go back to your Myspace profile. We apologize for the inconvenience and maybe Myspace users can convince them to make a safe alternative exception for legitimate apps like the tubesurfer widget.