I Learned It From Watching Movies

The Pep Talk:

Thank you, Rotten Tomatoes Show!

Year in Review...in Google Wave

How to be Bully Smart!

Movies of 2009 in 90 Seconds

Hollywood.com had to delete the video. Sorry, folks.

Bill Dance Bloopers

Fishing Bloopers are the best:

Amie Street Deals $5-9 (from their Best of 2009 list)

Amie Street is having some killer deals right now based on their Best Albums of 2009. For example, for $5 bucks you can get the new Avett Brothers cd "I and Love and You".

Eric Hutchinson - "The BCS S-U-X"

One of our favorite artists is in tune to the shortcomings of the BCS:

The Onion's Annual Year 2009

Instead of posting a lot of "Best of 2009" this year I figured I'd go to what the best list will be: The Onion's Annual Year 2009: The Top 10 Stories of the Last 4.5 Billion Years. Keep checking back each day for the new one.

Dave Letterman on the Twitter Machine

It is my job to post videos like this:

Relevant's Best Albums of 2009

It's time to start the Best of 2009 lists. First up is the always reputable Relevant Best Albums of 2009.

My favorite on their list:

The Avett Brothers—I and Love and You

What do you do if you're an Americana revival band who's really good but hasn't yet gotten the attention you deserve? For starters, it's probably best to get Rick Rubin to produce you. And while Rubin has been mostly known in recent years for his stripped-down approach to Johnny Cash's country music, he's done the opposite here—he's smoothed out some of the edges and made them much more melodic. Gone are the punk leanings and wild yelps of past records; instead, the brothers Avett sing and pick their instruments through 13 fantastic tracks. The title track is an piano-driven expose on why it's so hard to say those three little words. "Ten Thousand Words" is another highlight, layering guitar, mandolin and Hammond B3 on top of already-layered vocals, while "Kick Drum Heart" sounds like it could be on a kid's album. I and Love and You stands as the Bros.' strongest effort, taking their strengths and smoothing them into a cohesive whole.

What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?

The Woot blog has a great article mocking the covers of old (circa 1950's) Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Modern Mechanix. Fully worth reading.

Helicopter Skiing? Have you ever seen a helicopter, guys? Unless this is some kind of magical "no prop wash" chopper, those kids are going to be whipped around by a constant blizzard until the spiraling winds whip their tethers around their frozen, lifeless bodies and they're dragged through the Rockies. How would you even communicate to the pilot that you're ready to stop? He'd just go on sipping his coffee and plowing the mountainside with your icy corpse. No doubt the alarmed people emerging from the trees are trying to warn the boys of just this danger.

Google Goggles: The Visual Search Application

Jingle All The Way

A Christmas album from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones? Yep, it's true. It came out last year and it's a trippy, funky, holly, jolly good time.

Here's a sample:

Sleigh Ride - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

And you shouldn't miss their version of "Linus & Lucy" from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Love me some Bela Fleck and Vic Wooten on the bass:

Linus and Lucy - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Pompeii Ruins on Street View

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What really happened in the Tiger Woods ordeal...

...according to an Asian news station: