Re: Bringin’ the Awesome!

A summer of field work can turn grad students and student workers into zombies and here to prove this are the good folks at the Toolik Lake Research Station on the North Slope of Alaska doing their tribute to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Those are mosquito head nets that they are wearing, by the way. Note [...]

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Re: Tin Ear II–The Recital Continues

And even more “Tin Man” music videos you didn’t know were out there.

Music: “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” from Disney’s Mulan.
The character of Wyatt Cain (played by Neal McDonough) is the classic, hard bitten private eye dude. Initially, he has some issues with his “civilian” companions as this video [...]

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Re: Tin Ear

An “Tin Man” obsession is a terrible thing, but judging by the flood of “Tin Man”-related music videos on YouTube, I’m not alone in my love for this Sci-Fi Channel mini-series. And now a sampling of my favorites:

Music: “Jerry Springer” by Weird Al Yankovic
What can you say about a song with [...]

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Re: Coulda Been Worse

No matter how bad the last eight years have been, folks, it’s always important to remember that it might have been worse. YouTube user TheNegativeDude remixed “Dark Knight” footage in order to make this trailer for Oliver W. Stone’s “W” movie. Watch for who he casts as Karl Rove. I was [...]

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Re: Wheel of Morality

Wheel of morality, turn, turn, turn
Tell us the lesson that we should learn.
–final scene at the end of every [...]

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Re: Totally YouTubular

From the wicked cartoonist & librarian team at Unshelved. A little commentary on Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. Click on the strip to see the last frame which wound up under the sidebar.

I have been spending an unnatural amount of time on YouTube recently because I’m preparing for an oral history panel on the [...]

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