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watch it: cop pepper-sprays seated, nonviolent Occupy protesters

Sat, Nov 19, 2011
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It’s a special Saturday Web Video of the Day, because everyone needs to see this, and it can’t wait till Monday.

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translating Hollywood: the greenlighting of the Lego movie

Thu, Nov 17, 2011
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You may have read the Variety article this week about the Lego movie Warner Bros. just greenlit. But did you understand what it was really saying? Here’s a translation…

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watch it: “What News Anchors Do During Commercial Breaks”

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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If all news anchors don’t do this during commercial breaks, they should.

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cute animal video: “Bully cat stuffs cat in box”

Fri, Nov 11, 2011
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What do we think? Is the gray cat unfairly villified as a bully here?

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watch it: “Cinemetrics Visualization”

Wed, Nov 09, 2011
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I find this totally fascinating. It’s a completely fresh way of examining a film from a technical standpoint, and a way of encapsulating the overall esthetic…

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watch it: how to get people to unblock the sidewalk

Tue, Nov 08, 2011
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Sidewalk hoggers are bit problem in urban areas all around the world, it seems.

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cute animal video: “Pigeon Won’t Let Cat Sleep”

Fri, Nov 04, 2011
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This cat has the patience of Job.

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watch it: “13 out of 99 Part I”

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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Yup, pretty much, it’s all hippies. No, wait, it’s all overprivileged college hipsters. No, wait, it’s a cross-section of America…

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question of the day: Does the world need 96 new channels of YouTube content?

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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Are our TVs not already chock full of more crap than we could ever watch, even if we wanted to watch it all? Doesn’t the glut of pointless, useless junk on the vast multitude of cable channels prove that there are already too many content streams and not enough good material to fill them?

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watch it: crazy California Halloween house

Mon, Oct 31, 2011
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Would you like to live next door to this house?

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