Classic Gator Highlights

Posted and filed under College Football.

The season is so close I can smell it. Wuerffel to Doering 1997 FSU @ UF “The Comeback” Ike Hilliard’s sick Sugar Bowl ‘stop and go’ “Fix You” Major Wright: The hammer (bonus hits) The Georgia Stuff What is G? Tim Tebow: Juggernaut

Arrested Development

Posted and filed under comedy, media.

Awesome news from Jason: You can now watch every episode of Arrested Development online, for free, at Hulu.com! We just started watching this brilliantly funny show this summer. I’m only up to about the middle of season two, and am seriously looking forward to the rest.

Five Months of My Life, Gone

Posted and filed under comedy, movies.

So apparently there’s a whole series of these parodies, but I think “Hitler: Bloodthirsty Dictator, Die-hard Cowboys Fan” is the best. Sure, it’s no Planet Unicorn, but it’s definitely the funniest YouTubery I’ve seen this year. <hat tip to Andy>

Washing a Cat

Posted and filed under WebLinks.

This Kitty Washing Machine may very well be effective, but I don’t think its efficiency trumps the fact that it looks like the cat is scared out of its mind. I think even a decade ago — before I owned any cats — that I would not have laughed at this poor feline’s frantic fright…. Read more »

BCS Championship Game Video

Posted and filed under College Football, media, music, Software.

How cool is the World Wide Web™? Within 24 hours of the game I was able to use μtorrent to download the entire 2006 BCS Championship Game and watch it using the latest DivX player. The 2.2GB file took about 20 hours to download, but it’s worth it. I’m considering using the office projector to… Read more »

Misleading Trailers

Posted and filed under comedy, movies.

My friend Joy asked me if I’d seen The Shining, the classic Stephen King movie. I saw it years and years ago, on an ancient technology known as a “VCR”, if you can believe that. (I have read the book — an even more ancient technology — several times.) She asked me if I’d seen… Read more »