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links for 2007-01-01: Fiza

YouTube – Mehboob Mere Fiza, by way of Bruce Sterling (tags: bollywood india assassin Bruce_Sterling youtube)

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Listen to the Bastard Fairies, Already

Okay, so it’s a tad contrived — I don’t think any 8-year-old is going to be making Pulp Fiction references of her own accord, for one thing — but maximum points for sentiments and candour. A-and for winding up the … more…

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Fractal animations by Jack Cooper

A spot of eye candy for a quiet autumn day: There’s quite a few more on YouTube, and there are higher quality mpg animations at Fractal Animations.

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Creature Comforts election special?

Oh yes. (via everlasting blort)

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YouTubers

I expect lots of people will have seen this already — it’s been on YouTube for weeks — but I only just saw it today, and if you haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth a look: YouTubers is an oustanding … more…

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More about YouTube

The YouTube movie embedded in the previous post shows two important things about YouTube: YouTube is awesome. Here I am rambling on in a fairly shapeless manner about defamiliarization, which is linked to roosting birds over the fantastic ruin of … more…

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Sesame Streets

Sesame Streets – the muppets as done by Martin Scorsese, or just possibly, the other way around. This is the kind of entertainment that the internet makes possible. (via Beware of the Blog)

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Maybelle & Sara Carter – Cannonball Blues

This footage of Maybelle and Sara Carter playing Cannonball Blues al fresco is from a selection of tasty morsels posted by y2karl to Metafilter. There are many new treasures offered in the comments thread, too, including Skip James, Muddy Waters, … more…

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YouTube embed code does not validate

I’ve just run the front page of the blog through the W3C validator, and discovered that although my own code is cool, the page won’t validate as long as there’s a YouTube embedded movie on here, because “embed” is not, … more…

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Radical, efficient new engine design in the works

This looks like an extremely promising (and unexpected) development in the wonderful, wacky and probably doomed world of the internal combustion engine: Carmelo Scuderi, a Massachusetts engineer and inventor, started tinkering with the fundamentals of the internal combustion engine when … more…

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