Archive for 2008
December 18 2008
The Best Web Videos of 2008 (Part Two).
posted by Ana Samways at 11:36 amOshiya, or “pusher”, is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. Let the shoving begin…
More Best Web Videos of 2008 after the jump…
December 17 2008
The Best Web Videos Of 2008 (Part One)
posted by Ana Samways at 8:31 pmThe sea is terrifying: First up is the Grand Voyager, which lost engine power after a 15 metre wave hit it in February 2005, en route from Tunisia to Spain.
More Best Videos of 2008, after the jump…
December 16 2008
Stress Busting and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 9:54 am
Today’s Choice Links: Mash-ups of Bush shoe-throwing video; Stress busting sites; When I was your age…; Add Benny Hill’s yackety sax; Playboy Mexico’s Virgin Mary cover; Time’s top ten lists for 2008; An office chair to limit distractions; 80s dating advice…
December 16 2008
John Key Camps It Up For NZ Tourism
posted by Ana Samways at 9:21 amOur new PM and Minister of Tourism plugs New Zealand to overseas holiday makers with his unusual lilt and apricot shirt making him appear … er, quite fey. Maybe he’s after the pink tourist dollar? What do you think?
(thanks Dancing Cookie)
December 16 2008
Alternative Christmas Song Goodness
posted by Ana Samways at 8:53 amIf the cast of Ally McBeal wearing strapless Christmas-themed frocks and grinding away to “Santa Baby” gives you the heebies, then here’s a collection of Christmas songs that’ll get even the biggest cynic in the Yule-tide mood. First up, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl with “Fairytale of New York”, with nifty animation.
More after the jump…