Archive for the 'Videos' Category

A short clip for the Kings of Leon fans out there

August 19th, 2009

This is just awesome:

#1 single, but the band thought it was terrible and nearly ditched it.
Here’s the music video:


Caution: Formula1 and iPhone geekness ahead…

March 19th, 2009

It’s fascinating what you can control with an iPhone these days! (Fast-forward to 1:20 for the good bits.)


Panama Canal crossing video

March 17th, 2009

I got a kick out of seeing this video. It’s a timelapse video taken of a cruise ship going through the Panama Canal. The fun bits with locks are at the beginning and end; in the middle there’s quite a large lake that needs to be sailed across.
My old boat (the USS Hartford, [...]


Barack Obama as a Rorschach test

February 3rd, 2009

President Barack Obama’s multi-ethnic background and refusal to get tied down to stereotypes has made him a cultural Rorschach test.
The definitive proof? This song: There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama

(Lyrics here) And a better video can be seen if you click on this link. The band disabled embedding videos…


Running (rowing?) & reading

January 15th, 2009

I found this via Brad Feld, and saw that Furqan blogged about it, too.
It’s a short & simple video from Will Smith (the “Fresh Prince”) and his two keys to life: Running and Reading. Because if you want to succeed, you’ve got to be willing to work harder than anyone else.
Though I can’t help [...]


Best beer ad ever??

January 8th, 2009

My first two exams of the MBA were yesterday (Finance and Accounting), and my last two exams for this term are tomorrow (Marketing and Organisational Behaviour). I’m a bit fried from yesterday, and still have to study for exams tomorrow morning.
In honour of this, a bit of an amusing video…


Your Monday morning Sesame Street Gangsta-rap video

January 5th, 2009

Via Unstoppablerobotninja:


Get yourself on Twitter!

December 31st, 2008

One of the biggest stories in the tech world in 2008 has been Twitter. I was at first quite down on Twitter, but have since changed my mind. It’s a mix of a social network (like Facebook/MySpace) and a communications tool (like email/texting).
The best way to describe it is through this short YouTube [...]