Last week’s episode of NBC’s “30 Rock” featured a fictitious reality TV show called “MILF Island” (clip below).
“Holy Hot Mamas!
But who will be the final Mommy You’d Like to . . . you know . . . ?
Twenty MILFs, fifty eighth grade boys, and no rules!
And tonight . . . one winner!
Welcome to MILF Island!”
clip:
And NBC has already come through with the goods:
MILF Island T-Shirts!
It’s here: the exciting conclusion to “Aliens (Sweded Edition)”!!
As you can see by the out-takes at the end, we had a blast filming this.
We hope you enjoy the show:
DailyMotion link
Google Video link
Yahoo! Video link
Update 4/21: We made the front page of SwededFilms.com!
Some friends and neighbors and I filmed this this weekend.
It was a blast.
Stay tuned for part 2.
DailyMotion link
Google Video link
Yahoo! Video link
Update 4/21: We made the front page of SwededFilms.com!
It seems everyone and their mother is on Facebook these days, but people use the site for a variety of different reasons… keeping in touch with friends, procrastinating, getting some random play, playing scrabble with loved ones, stalking secret crushes– the list goes on and on. But how do you use The ‘Book? This comedic ‘infomercial’ delves into the issue.
(Thanks to Katya for the heads up!)
Now, thanks to PerpetualKid, I can combine my two favorite things: Money and Bacon.
And for just $7.95(!) you can get your own. As PK says, ” Elvis would want you to have this.” Click the image to order.
Bubblicious Ink’d: perhaps the first time a candy dyes your tongue blue on purpose and then brags about it.
And plus it has that cool urban spelling which the kids rave about: Ink’d.
A friend and I chew’d a pack . . .
To drum up excitement for the upcoming Olympic games, and to tap into the audiences that watch Lost and still remember (enjoy?) playing Myst, a new online game called The Lost Ring emerged in late February. The New York Times recently featured an interesting article about the hidden sponsorship of the game, players around the world, and the relatively cheap cost of orchestrating worldwide phenomena. (Interestingly enough, the article was written on April Fools Day, so it’s unclear whether anyone took the review seriously).
Here’s the trailer that started it all:
The game apparently started with 50 bloggers who knew all those sleepless nights spent online had finally paid off, but has now gotten big enough that there are wikis, podcasts and players collaborating around the world to piece together the story and pick up hidden clues left in cities around the world. The game will culminate during the opening ceremony of the Olympics with some sort of tie-in. You can catch up and join in the fun at The Lost Ring Wiki.
(thanks Alexis)
Since the movie “Be Kind Rewind” came out in theaters last month, ‘Sweded‘ videos have become all the rage - YouTube is flush with ‘Sweded’ flicks.
For those of you not familiar with the concept of ‘Sweding’: it is a homemade remake of a movie, often involving a lot of cardboard.
Here are some of the more spectacular ‘Sweded’ films (some of these were made prior to the movie “Be Kind Rewind,” but can still be considered ‘Sweded’):
Star Wars • Tron • Jurassic Park • Terminator 2 • Back to the Future • 300 • I Am Legend • Top Gun • Point Break • Home Alone • Groundhog Day • The Silence of the Lambs • Alien • Total Recall • The Lord of the Rings • Mad Max (by the Neistat Bros) • Kill Bill (part 1) • The Shining • Goldfinger
Pope Benedict XVI signed an official decree yesterday, that Easter Sunday will be celebrated a second time this year. This is not the first time that the Catholic church has done this - in 1521 and in 1790, Easter was also celebrated twice. This year, Easter will be celebrated on March 23rd and on April 6th - perhaps why many stores continue to carry Easter items for over a week after “Easter I.”
This odd “Second Easter Sunday” is based on a technicality regarding how Easter Sunday is determined by the Catholic church - the closest Sunday to the full Moon closest to the Spring Equinox: this year (like 1521 and 1790), the full Moons before and after the Equinox are precisely the same number of days, hours, and minutes away from the Equinox.
A Bonus: a second round of chocolate bunnies.
(Reuters link)
Feast your ears on this: Muxtape.
And this: my Muxtape demo.
The up sides to Muxtape:
• You can make a virtual mixtape, to let everyone know that you have better musical taste than they do.
• It’s free.
• It is elegantly simple, super-user-friendly, and setting up an account is free of ass-pain.
The down sides:
• To create a Muxtape, uploaded music must be in mp3 format.
• I miss putting stickers and homemade artwork all over mixtape cassettes.
• If you were born after 1980, you won’t truly understand the nostalgia of mixtapes.
Bonus Round: The book “Mix Tape” by Thurston Moore.
FirstShowing.net has a flash video of the alternate (and original) ending to “I Am Legend” (2007) (can also been seen on some versions of the DVD).
(via Garry)
That’s right folks….bacon and cheese flavored crickets. These are made by a company called HotLix, a specialty candy company that has an entire line of insect candies, such as Chocolate Insects, Real Scorpion Suckers, and Larvets. Any takers for a Tequila-flavored Worm Sucker?
Big shout out to Blogadilla reader billb, who sent us what is definitely our weirdest Bacon Product of the Week to date. Can any of you out there one up him? Keep posting your bacon finds in the comments!
Rolling Rock Beer recently rolled out an interesting and cool interactive advertising MOONVERTISING campaign, allowing users to create their own advertisements on the moon. Blogadilla reader Ben sent me this cool one, designed specially for us– thanks bro!
(photo from René Rondeau)
Earlier this month, researcher/historian David Giovannoni (at First Sounds) discovered the earliest recording of a human voice, from the archives of the French Academy of Sciences. According to records, this sound recording was made by inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 - 17 years before Thomas Edison. The recording was made on Scott de Martinville’s “phonautograph” which records sound onto a carbon (smoke)-blackened paper. Though his machine successfully recorded a human voice, Scott de Martinville had no means to play back the recording. This recording was scanned, processed, and converted into an audible clip at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
HERE IS THE AUDIO CLIP of Scott de Martinville’s recording - it is a 10 second passage from the French song “Au Clair de la Lune” (I also added a modern recording of the song for comparison).
(via ABC Science)
What’s the point of robots unless you can make them annoying?
The Yellow Drum Machine:
“Like a hyperactive 3 year old, the little Yellow Drum Machine Robot wanders around the house looking for objects to drum on.”
(via Notcot)
A long, long time ago (1998 to be exact) and in anticipation of the release of the first of three Star Wars prequels, toy maker Jason Deyer and his buddy Steve Ross were approached to design ‘Dealer Loaders’ for promotions and giveaways. But because they were ‘unapproved vendors’ (AKA not part of George Lucas’ monolith) Jason and his friend had to base their designs on the original trilogy.
You can check out the original drawings on Jason’s blog, Action Figure Insider, and you also can hear an interview about his trials and tribulations on NPR. Make sure to check out NPR’s Bryant Park Project page on the Star Wars merchandise, here. (Click ‘Listen Now’ for the interview).
Death Star BBQ Grill Anyone?
In what is almost comical enough to be an article from The Onion, The New York Times breaks down a study by none other than “Dr. Grim,” a Czech scientist who correlates beer drinking and a lack of success among scientists in publishing academic papers. What is particularly interesting is that Dr. Grim correlates not just the fact that a scientist drinks beer with his or her success as a publishing author, but finds that the more a scientist drinks, the less success he or she has in publishing. Choice quotes from the article include:
Matthew Symonds, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne who has also studied factors affecting scientific productivity, called the results remarkable.
“It’s rather devastating to be told we should drink less beer in order to increase our scientific performance,” Dr. Symonds said.
and
In spite of his study, Dr. Grim, who said he would on occasion enjoy more than 12 beers in a night, is not on a campaign to decrease beer drinking among scientists. Why not? His answer: “I like it.”
The quality of writing at the New York Times has clearly never been higher.
(via SteveB; via NYT)
Check out this video of Arthur Benjamin, from TED’s 2005 Conference. A self-proclaimed ‘mathemagician’, Arthur can multiply numbers up to 5 digits in length in his head. And he works faster than calculators.
Obviously he’s good with the numbers. It’s also safe to say he’s probably not nearly as good with the ladies.
(via TED.com)
