Page Weight Matters | Chris Zacharias
An excellent tale of performance optimisation …complete with a coda on looking behind the numbers when it comes to analytics data.
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Andy Hume: CSS for Grownups, SXSW 2012 - YouTube
The slides and audio from Andy’s exceptional talk earlier this year at Southby, combined into one video.
It really is excellent, although he does make the mistake of pulling the “dogma” card on those who woud disagree with him, and he really doesn’t need to: his argument is strong enough to stand on its own.
Hacking the Future: Clare Sutcliffe at TEDxBrighton - YouTube
A great short talk from Clare about Code Club.
TEDxToronto 2012 Talk - Ryan Henson Creighton
And this is why Code Club is such a great initiative.
The Brooklyn Beta Theme Song: Year Three - YouTube
Song-a-day Mann closed out this year’s Brooklyn Beta by singing this song (number #1381 in his ongoing series). We all sang along. It was pretty damn great.
Kev aka Lomokev- Brighton street photographer: YouTube
A nice little profile of local Brighton photographer extraordinaire, Lomokev.
Meet the new-look Channel 4 News website - YouTube
Clearleft have been working with Channel 4 News on their new redesign. Here’s Jon Snow explaining responsive design.
“BOTANICUS INTERACTICUS”: Interactive Plant Technology - YouTube
Theraminforming.
3D-Printed “Magic Arms” - YouTube
3D printing an exoskeleton for a child with arthrogryposis — technology can be so fricking awesome!
The Keymaster: Patrick Olwell’s story - YouTube
The trailer for a documentary on flutemaker Patrick Olwell. The film should be done later this year.
Code Club - The Interview - YouTube
It’s kinda nuts that in the space of just a few months, Code Club has gone from being an idea by Clare and Linda into something with an all-star promo video.
Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury - Rachel Bloom - YouTube
In light of the recent death of Ray Bradbury, I think we should all honour his memory by revisiting this song (featuring some future-friendly headgear).
I’ll feed you grapes and Dandelion Wine and we’ll read a little Fahrenheit 69…
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers - YouTube
A satirical parody of post-singularity existence by Tom Scott inspired by Jim Munroe’s Everyone in Silico and Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular.
Like A Rounded Corner (Bruce and The Standardettes) - YouTube
Bravo, Bruce, bravo.
I heard Glen Campbell’s “Like A Rhinestone Cowboy” on the radio and began absent-mindedly singing “Like a rounded corner” to it.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto - YouTube
A beautiful and disturbing piece of data visualisation. The numbers are quite astonishing.
Using Huffduffer to Listen to Audio - YouTube
This is so cool! A short screencast about Huffduffer.
Nicholas Zakas: Progressive Enhancement 2.0 - YouTube
A great talk by Nicholas on what progressive enhancement means today. There’s some good ammunition in here.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack - YouTube
Jason’s rip-roaring presentation from Defcon last year.
Lets Imagine Greater - Ariel “Spotlight” - YouTube
How awesome is this!? Ariel is on TV in a promo spot for the Syfy channel …all thanks to Spacehack.org.
Science!
Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done - YouTube
Neal Stephenson speaks at Solve For X on the relative timidity of scientific (and science fictional) progress in our current time.
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) - YouTube
A five year old provides a few remarks on some popular logos. Cute!
At Twitter, The Future is You! - YouTube
A hackweek project from Twitter employees to create the best/worst recruitment video of all time.
Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem - Muppets rock out in Brighton ! - YouTube
A trifecta of nice things:
- Muppets.
- Brighton.
- LCD Soundsystem.
YouTube - One Hour Per Second
Cute CSS animations illustrating the incredible rate of uploads to YouTube.
Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut - YouTube
The final amalgam of Star Wars Uncut is an absolute joy to behold. I enjoyed every single moment of this.
IBM Sage Computer Ad, 1960 - YouTube
A 1960 advertisement for IBM’s SAGE system …WOPR by another name.
To be ready for the worst so that the worst will never happen…
«Once Upon» by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
What would Google+, YouTube and Facebook have looked like in 1997?
Jeremy Keith: One Web — Update 2011 - YouTube
My short talk from Aral’s Update conference in Brighton last September. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. If I only I had a handheld mic—then I could’ve done a microphone drop at the end.
Silicon Valley Buzz - Science for the everyday man - YouTube
Ariel is interviewed by Seth Shostak. Science! Science! Science!
BlackBerry Future Visions 2 - Leaked Video - YouTube
Possibly the least imaginative concept video ever made, this piece commissioned by Blackberry shows a dystopian near-future ruled by security departments run by people with very, very tired arms.
Productivity Future Vision (2011) - YouTube
This vision thing commissioned by Microsoft shows a future-friendly networked world where content flows like water from screen to screen.
James Burke Classic : The Famous Rocket Takeoff Scene - YouTube
This remains one of the greatest pieces of documentary footage ever filmed.
Upperdog Labs: Video Canvas Responsive Design - YouTube
I never expected to see a cross between responsive design and AR, but here ya go:
A silly mashup of HTML5 technologies: We use the canvas to capture the contents of a video element. The canvas then identifies the blue markers and overlays an iframe on top of it. The iframe contains our website (upperdog.se) which has a responsive design.
Mario Portals Test 3 - YouTube
What if Mario had a portal gun?
Web Standards Hoedown (Full HD / Radio Edit) - YouTube
It’s Opera …but it’s folk.
Salter Cane — Anomie - YouTube
We played at the bottom of the art-deco staircase in Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion. Sounds pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Swarmanoid, the movie - YouTube
I, for one, welcome our autonomous swarming robot overlords.
Lucozade Energy Advert 2011 - Feeder’s ‘Buck Rogers’ by The James Cleaver Quintet. - YouTube
So that’s what they were filming when I came out of band practice the other day. This is my neighbourhood.
OSCON 2011, Ariel Waldman, “Hacking Space Exploration” - YouTube
Ariel’s inspiring keynote from OSCON in Portland, featuring two very exciting Science Hack Day announcements at the end.
YouTube - The Loving Trap
Pitch-perfect parody of Adam Curtis’s particular style of documentary guff.
YouTube - Bachelor Kisses acoustic - The Go-Betweens
Two fine songwriters. Only one of them is still with us.
YouTube - Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation
The plan to get Curiosity Rover onto the surface of Mars (ignore the cheesy sound effects in space).
YouTube - Being a Google Autocompleter
Yeah, it’s an April Fool’s video (lamest day on the internet) but this is amusing.
YouTube - Vader
We want the finest Star Wars parodies known to man—we want them here and we want them now!
YouTube - Magnum v. Solo, sequence comparison
When you see Craig’s Han Solo PI side by side with the original title sequence of Magnum PI, the genius shines through.
YouTube - Harvard Humanists Stephen Fry 2 22 2011 Chapter 10 Molly Lewis
If I had the right biological equipment, I think I too might offer to bear Stephen Fry’s children …in a song.
YouTube - How To Be South By South Best (SXSW Video Guide)
Southby is something of an easy target for ridicule, but this is still mildly amusing.
YouTube - “Smack My Bitch Up” performed by The Beatles
Live footage from Shea Stadium in an alternate universe.
YouTube - TOC 2011: James Bridle, “The Condition of Music”
James’s talk from Tools Of Change. Great stuff!
YouTube - A Day Made of Glass… Made possible by Corning.
There are two things I’d like to see after watching this video:
- A slew of parodies to highlight the unintended consequences of this marketeer’s panopticon,
- The Paleofuture blog post in 100 years looking back at this.
YouTube - Report Finds Troubling Rise In Teen Uranium Enrichment
Well, y’know, you never think it’s your kid whose gonna go sell enriched uranium to a rogue nation.
YouTube - Why I LOVE My 3D Printer
This may be one of the best pecha kuch— I mean, Ignite presentations I’ve ever seen.
YouTube - Playmobil Stop Motion - Joy Division - Transmission
Hooky never looked so good.
YouTube - Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters
Visualising the Republic of Letters.
YouTube - BBC Horizon (1964) with Arthur C. Clarke (Part 1 of 2)
Past predictions of the future.
YouTube - Die Hard - Music Video - NEW 4th Verse!
“And the terrorists were over-zealous, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis…”
YouTube - Hudsucker Proxy - Mailroom Orientation
“Sam! LOWERY!”
YouTube - Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) - Ministry of Information
“Lowery? Has anyone seen Sam Lowery?”
YouTube - GET OUT OF THERE!
Acceptable variations include “Get the hell out of there!” and “Get him/her/them out of there!”
YouTube - paleofuture.tv [episode 00000: food]
The Paleofuture blog, that excellent trove of past visions of the future, has a corresponding video channel. The first episode is all about food.
YouTube - Yogi Bear Parody: “Booboo Kills Yogi” ending
The Assassination Of Yogi Bear By The Coward Boo-Boo.
YouTube - Why the other line is likely to move faster
This is exactly why I always choose the combined queue in Waitrose even if it looks longer than the queue for a single till.
YouTube - Filmography 2010
A montage of this year’s films.
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word project
Generative music with YouTube.
Dirpy Studio Beta - Internet DVR - Convert Youtube Videos to Mp3s
A very handy tool for converting YouTube videos to MP3.
YTTM.tv - Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.
YouTube Time Machine: this is beautiful and fascinating. Set phasers to WWILF.
You what? Youtube comments quiz | Monkeon | Web Design Leeds
This little quiz is surprisingly addictive: match the inane comment to the YouTube video.
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
I believe it was the philosopher Conflicticus who said, "Only stupid bastards help EMI."
TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM
Best. Domain name. Ever.
Google Web Elements
Standalone embeddable widgets from Google that you can drop into any web page. The maps widget finally frees the maps API from the tyranny of coupling a domain with an API key.
Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat
Because everything goes better with keyboard cat.
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com
A sobering article on the cost of being a truly global website. This gives some context to Last.fm's recent pricing model decision.
YouTube - Newsnight Goldacre Sigman BBC2 20090224
Behold the double awesomeness of Jeremy Paxman and Ben Goldacre! Susan Greenfield, alas, is simply embarrassing.
Amanda L. French, Ph.D. » Blog Archive » Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Social networking Terms Of Service compared and contrasted.
YouTube - MontyPython's Channel
There is now a dedicated Monty Python channel on YouTube, all legit like. Hurrah!
Validifier: Turn Flash embed code into valid XHTML
A handy little tool to turn video embedding markup into valid XHTML.
YouTube - experiencewii's Channel
Nintendo break the third wall to advertise Wario Land.
JavaScript Rock Star
Guitar done with YouTube and JavaScript. John Resig is nuts, nuts I tell ya!
vidnik - Google Code
A handy Mac app from Google that allows you to record from your iSight and upload directly to YouTube.
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
Not all communities are created equal. The web needs Metafiltering and less YouTubing.
George Clooney - Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex, and Politics - Esquire
George Clooney watches '2 Girls, 1 Cup': "Clooney puts his hand over his mouth like he's going to throw up. He bolts from his chair and walks out of the room."
YouTube - Microformats in Google Maps + Operator
Ian Lloyd gets search results for curry houses in Swindon from Google Maps to his phone in less than 60 seconds. All thanks to hCard.
YouTube - ORIGINAL DESIGN GANGSTA
Word!
5 segundos
Superb blood donor video. Which reminds me...
YouTube - 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
Here's an antidote to all those "100 best movie" countdowns that infest Saturday night television. Here's 100 movies with 100 numbers.
YouTube - pacman
What else would you do in a maze-link environment other than recreate pacman?
YouTube - Otters holding hands
Quite possibly the cutest thing ever captured on video.
YouTube - This 'n' That
Paul's voice has been sampled from his this'n'that magic trick and used for this stop-motion animation. Brilliant! I <3 mashup culture.
nasty nets » 2001 2006
Here's some clever CSS: one YouTube video inside another YouTube video. Press play on both.
YouTube - Star Wars
Star Wars and Lego: two great tastes that taste great together.
YouTube - Silent Star Wars
A great re-imagining of the Star Wars trilogy as a silent movie.
YouTube - Liverpool Street mobile-clubbing.com flashmob, October 11th
This looks crazy! Everyone is dancing to the beat of a different drum... I mean, iPod.
YouTube - Darth Vader Being a Jackass
The power of editing.
YouTube - Vader Sessions
Taking samples from James Earl Jones's back catalogue and dubbing them over Star Wars sure is funny.
YouTube - Best fight scene of all time (is this gay?)
Put this one in the "so bad, it's good" category. The movie is called "Undefeatable" if you fancy trawling eBay for it.