Volume 9 Issue 11

1)  How to answer a fast food conundrum

http://eatingtheroad.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/whereshouldieat.jpg

2)  How we could have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6pUMlPBMQA

3) Need b-roll?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

4) Cool photos of vanishing lifestyle in Ethiopia

http://www.life.com/image/ugc1012492/in-gallery/35332/ethiopias-vanishing-tribes

Volume 9 Issue 10 - I have the internets

Volume 9
Special "I have Internets" Edition

The internet has arrived at my new apartment and to celebrate here is a belated hump day installment

1) Fall comes to a close with pumpkins and .... ewoks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0S0BUE0zg

2)  When to not take the phrase go jump in a lake literally:

http://jalopnik.com/5403061/16-million-bugatti-veyron-crashes-into-texas-lake

3) Incredible story. Thanks Fidel!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/luckycoyote.asp

4) Muppets take Queen (thanks Nick C.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY

5)  A creative use of google maps

http://www.class3outbreak.com/zombie-outbreak-simulator/

6) Because I know you were more worried about this than Dubai. She deleted her twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSOTQPUQoU

7)  A fall spin on a game from earlier this season ... thanks brother mac.

http://www.addictinggames.com/pumpkinremover.html

Volume 9 Issue 9 - Rivalry Week

Its rivalry week in college football and with that comes this traditional edition.

 

 

1) Happy fifth year anniversary to my college class's finest achievement

 

http://www.harvardsucks.org

 

2) Thematically appropriate - you can play the NES game Arch Rivals

 

http://www.playnes.net/play/60/Arch_Rivals.html

 

3) A recent letter exchange regarading the Irish - French World Cup Qualifying playoff match:

 

http://irishsoccerinsider.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/french-and-irish-fall-out-over-box-incident/

 

 

4)  Even the daily show understands the osu meatchicken rivalry

 

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-2-2006/midwest-midterm-midtacular---goodbye--columbus

 

but do they understand its deep history goes beyond the grid iron

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

 

 

and for something completely different because it is so seasonal

 

 

5) some fall decorating tips (please be advised of foul language ... a lot of foul language ...  a lot a lot a lot of foul language ... but the contrast with Martha is how the humor is constructed ... you will see what I mean)

 

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/20nissan.html

 

 

Go Bucks and Go Dogs!

Ned

Volume 9 Issue 8

1)  Christopher Walken makes everything in pop culture better.  Thanks Fidel M!

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2009/11/christopher-walken-does-poker-face


2) An item that could end up on a do-it-yourselfers xmas list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5PGeh2K9k


3)  I guess this is what happens in a recession.  Thanks Nick C!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.marker.disguise/index.html


4)  This will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t28COxEp2k


5) and finally nothing I can do this week will out do what the colonel did last week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6444738/KFCs-Colonel-Sanders-tricks-his-way-into-UN-to-pose-for-official-photo.html

Volume 9 Issue 7

1) Almost as good as the samsung sheep ad (fyi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw) ...

http://mashable.com/2009/10/23/1000-phones-ad-video/

2) Maps some might use to suggest where they would like me to live
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world/1

3) Still in need of costume ideas?

a) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawkpo_chauve-souris-remi-gaillard_fun

b) http://store.americanapparel.net/halloween-costume-contest.html

c) something more refined perhaps ... http://www.newyorker.com/online/photocontests/critterati_2009/gallery

- Ned

Volume 9 Issue 6

1) There are some things that get you in the spirit for the Holidays, as much as I love him, Bob Dylan straining over Silent Night is not one of them.

As one critic said, "when the star stumbles through I'll be home for Christmas, he delivers it as a threat."

http://gawker.com/5381621/most-comically-dylanesque-tracks-on-bob-dylans-christmas-album


2) Its the economy stupid

a) http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0906/trans0609largestbankruptcies.html

b) http://thisamericanlife.com/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1320


3) Another great link from Ariana N. Thanks AN!

http://www.goollery.org/#recent


4) Need a hobby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ


5) A new auto tune the news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnoD3NUux3M

--> My favorite from the summer for good measure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psfn6iOfS8

--
Ned Young
w: http://www.aroundthecouch.com/

Volume 9 Issue 5

This week we will take a tour across America.


*Regular Shopping USA - Thank you Uncle Scott and a few others who exposed me to this one

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


*Ohio- Ahhh, my home state

a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

b) Thanks Colman! http://deadspin.com/5370952/ohio-is-for-clunkers


* Upper Midwest

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6242687/WTF-Wisconsin-Tourism-Federation-changes-name-after-internet-jokes.html


*American History - How the civil war will be re-fought through preppy consumerism

New England North - http://www.vineyardvines.com
v.
South - http://www.southernproper.com/


* West Coast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwvc6fmXmuY