beethoven doesn't care about kanye and other mashups

doing research for another blogging class and was looking for some fun links to demonstrate. mashuptown is awesome! and so are finding mashedup vids on youtube.

here's something delightful:
this link is to a post from mashuptown. the song is 6 songs, some you know, some you don't, all mashed into one. it's really quite nice. i'd link directly to the mp3 itself, but i think it's better if you get it from the source.

here's something to make your head bob:
one of my favorite disco anthems, a fifth of beethoven, mashed to golddigger by kanye west. enjoy!


finally, if you're wondering what all the fuss is about this whole mashup business, you might want to watch this instructional video from sue teller. she shows you how to mash and mix in that somethin' somethin'.


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it's just like a mini mall

kimmy and i bought a couch recently. we're waiting for it to arrive from the factory. i'm looking forward to it, but in retrospect, i wonder if our furniture-buying experience might've been more interesting had we shopped from this guy:

enjoy!

thanks to extralife for the heads up.

hamsters, hampsters, and robin hood

i remember sitting in my room in baxter the first time i got emailed a link to the hampster dance and i nearly fell out of my seat.

i thought a little blast to the past might be fun. enjoy this update:


and of course, a trip into the way, way back machine:

i wish i had these mad dancing skillz

it's unusual for me to post this often but this one absolutely screamed to be shared with the world. so here goes. i think i've watched this 4 times now and i think it actually gets funnier each time.
enjoy.

barracuda!

lately, our email servers at work have been assaulted by spam. i have to monitor three separate email accounts, and because 2 of them are public information points, i can't use the built-in spam blockers (which of course wouldn't help anyway). i have to delete between 50-75 spam emails a day just to get to my 3 or 4 real emails. but good news! apparently yesterday a heavy-duty spam blocker from barracuda was launched, and so far so good. i've only gotten 3 spam messages in 2 days.

i'm pretty happy about it so it makes me wanna sing this song at the top of my lungs. but i'll just let the 5.6.7.8's do it instead. enjoy.

earthquake?

i'm here working late at the library and my chair just shifted suddenly. i have a feeling it was an earthquake and the patron a couple feet away seems to think the same. i'm trolling news sites but so far no one on the web seems to be running any stories yet...

for the record, i'd say it was about 8:38pm, and i'm here in sunnyvale, ca.

never mind, google reader

sad to say, but i joined the RSS revolution quite late in the game. i had heard the term tossed around but never bothered to figure out what it was and why i should bother. i believe that it's a byproduct of this fact that i never really bought into the whole blogging thing, probably because i always saw blogs as just too tedious to constantly monitor. because they are. which is why everyone should be using news aggregators like bloglines to monitor their news and blogs for them. there's just too much good/bad/funny/interesting/enlightening stuff out there on the blogosphere to not be paying attention.

anyway, i joined into the revolution by using bloglines to monitor a handful of news feeds and blogs. i've been cruising along nicely until i was turned on recently to Google Reader, just one more way for me to link all my online haunts together, and for google to insidiously invade every facet of my life. the hype was good. the interface seemed clean. i made the switch.

i'm switching back. reader's just not working well for me. my feed menu keeps telling me i haven't read certain posts, but when i click to read, i stare at the google labs logo and then it tells me either the post is unavailable or not there at all. no old posts, no nothing. plus it seems like it's frozen on me a couple times. and i seem to have timed out somehow somewhere. i hear what all the proponents are saying, how it's got lots of great features and bloglines has been really static, essentially resting on its laurels living on name recognition alone. but for me at least, i'm already nostalgic for the ultra-simple interface and lack of super features, because it did what it did and i never forced it to do too much, and it always responded in kind.

so get ready bloglines! i'm coming home!