My brother made this video about Motorola cell phones and how frustrating they might be with their timing of failure.

Way to go, Chris… I have at three cell phones sitting here with me that I could probably do that with, but it might be better to just sell them. Kyocera QCP 6035, Audiovox CDM-9500 and Motorola 120E. If anyone wants them, either to legitimately use or to make a similar video, make me an offer. Or if someone wants to pay me to make a video, I can do that too. I’m thinking, though, that most people would probably offer me money to NOT make a video. Pay up!

When you are in deep trouble, say nothing, and try to look like you know what you’re doing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

This guy does a great job taking you through all the different phases of dance.

Here’s one of really good paradies of Brokeback Mountain. All of them are being stored together for easy viewing also.

I only saw a few, but the Walker, Brokeback Ranger one is good (if for nothing else, the Chuck Norris linkage that’s done so well), as is the one for The Office.

http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/demos/tts/tts_example.html

I’ve seen a number of TTS (Text To Speech) tools on the internet that are fun to play with — you type in your text and some character voice says it for you. You get to experiment with phonetic variations of words to gain the best sounding result, or just be juvenile and put in ” is a big fat doody head, who picks his nose.” I mean, it’s really funny to hear some random virtual character say stuff like that. I even wrote a blog entry on it back in 8/05 and made up a conversation between several different virtual TTS characters and Daffy Duck. And of course, I was even able to make fun of Phillip Simpson (but then again, how hard is that? Not much of a challenge if you ask me).

The TTS tool I stumbled upon recently is a bit different. It has the same basic TTS feature of typing in a phrase, selecting a language and choosing a voice/personality, but this adds a “Character Driven Communication,” which is a fancy way of saying a visual representation of the chosen personality speaks the phrase to you. It even interacts with your mouse in that it looks around the “room” based on where you point your mouse.

I’m noticing that the “voices” are basically the same voices available at the AT&T Research Lab’s TTS Demo that I typically use. That site allows you to not only hear the words but also download an on-demand .wav file for later storage and manipulation. Oh, the manipulation….

http://www.arcfault.org/video.htm

This is a short little video that shows a power transformer screwing up and the arc that gets pumped into the air. Very neat.

The looter pic is my add-on

This stuff is great… I’m blogging this only 2 minutes through, so I hope the whole thing is just as funny…