Awareness Test

I was first shown this during a professional development course. I think it's fantastic. Just watch.

Cutest Video Ever!

I challenge you not to awwwww at it.

Videos

I've got a couple of half written posts, but they're not ready to go up here, yet, so I'm stuck giving you yet more links. In this case, to various videos I've enjoyed over the last few weeks:

Firstly the wider availability of handheld recording devices is being expertly countered by increasingly realistic CG effects in the battle to prove or disprove the existence of alien visitation. Two particularly viral fakes:

Haiti UFO [fake]



[fake]

Secondly, this video was linked from woot a while back, providing as it does an imagined english interpretation of an indian song:



and it reminded me of this 'Songs of Praise' reinterpretation by Adam Buxton:



Then we have some insane football skills, again, via woot:



Thundercat outtakes, put to some appropriate video from the show:



And finally some awesome dating video clips from the 80s. Tell me Louie doesn't sound like a Will Ferrell character:

PowerPointless

This is a multi-purpose post. Firstly, it's to get me back into posting here. Secondly, it's to make amends with Telf for not posting here for a while (apologies once again dude). Thirdly, it's so I can share something that made me laugh a lot.

I've already shown this to quite a few people, but I wanted to put it up here too. It struck a chord with me when I first saw it as a significant proportion of PowerPoint-based lectures I've had during my PGCE so far have been reminiscent of this style. I just think that if you're actually saying things like "I realise the text is far too small for people to read" about your slides, you need to rethink how you're putting together your lectures. Anyway, here we go.



I do have a couple of "real" posts I've been meaning to make for a little while now, but it's far too late to do either of them now, so hopefully this entry will get the ball rolling again for me and I'll post a bit more frequently.

by their own petard.

When the guys from Penny Arcade announced that they were taking time off from reviewing games in order to create one, game publishers of the world began to sharpen their knives for the sweetest revenge of all.

However, with their game not out yet, we have a vaguely similar, if a zero-budget, pixelated and sardonic one in Art of Theft.

With the game coming from the keyboard of 'Yahtzee', he of the Zero Punctuation reviews, it was only a matter of time before a parody review appeared. It doesn't have his Yahtzee's accent going for it, but matches him for wit and humour, as well as doing a good job actually reviewing the game.

pwnt pt. 2

Incredible video of a battle between a pride of lions and a herd of buffalo in South Africa, and, as if that wasn't enough, a couple of crocodiles get involved. This'll teach the lions to try and mess with the baby buffalos next time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Starry Night

This is pretty insane: makes me glad I never tried to get any good at 3d modelling, because, quite frankly, I'd never be this good in a million years. The payoff at the end is amazing also:

http://community.livejournal.com/second_lifers/391518.html?nc=10