StruckAxiom came up with an interesting way to pull in Facebook and webpages into a framework that allows you to mess with them. This interesting piece of newness (to me at least) was created to help promote the film “How To Train Your Dragon.”

via Digital Buzz Blog

The French website Incredibox – a charming human beatbox mixer made of a human chorus of French slackers.  Love the little bonus footage buttons that light up when they’re ready to give you a treat.

Here’s a video of one of my creations:

via Very Short List

And in case you were wondering, I’m Archer Hairline – the culmination of my emotional, understated, progressive, and disciplined personality.  As if you didn’t know.

Users can input where they last made love, what position, condom usage, etc. Who’s making their millions off this one?

Today, Radiohead has released a new song on their website in his honor and as a tribute to the soldiers of a gritty, brutal war.  The song costs one British pound and all proceeds go to the Royal British Legion.

Taken from Radioheads website:

Harry Patch (In Memory Of)

“i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
i’ve seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn”

Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.

It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.

As Harry himself said
“Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims”.

Yeah – this beats all of that. With its fists.

So good it hurts from the digital (I think) agency Hendersen Bas in lovely Canada. Check it out while you still can.

GetUp! has created a campaign to raise awareness, get people riled up, and stop the current administration from succeeding. In addition to this commercial, they’ve created a website and a modified search engine to illustrate the effects of censorship. They’re trying to raise money to run the spot on the airwaves to reach the masses. So check it out, get mad, and help them spread the word.

Sweet Jaysus – save us from the hand-wringing, squeamish moral police state, already. And by the way – I thought Australians (except for the Aboriginals) were descendants of criminals. Hey Australia – I had greater hopes for you than this.

As you were breaking up with me, all I could think about were those mornings when you compared the Pop-Tarts and gave me the one with more frosting.

My online dating service matched me with my cousin.

It wasn’t until the eulogy ended that I realized I had been thinking about porn instead of listening.

It’s been so long that I don’t even look down your street anymore.

There are two kinds of friends in the world: the ones who help you up when you’ve passed out in a bar and call a cab and the ones that take ‘funny’ pictures of you.

Instead of him they sent back a folded flag, and when I was alone I tore it to pieces.