Yes, folks, we've been here five years. Cue David Bowie. Thanks, Dave!

And, yes, folks, I couldn't be bothered waiting until the actual day to post this.

There's another five year anniversary I could have mentioned this month, but I try to steer clear of angry rants on this weblog. They're for elsewhere.

Here's a song for that one. Yes, I know it's not really about Iraq. The lead singer should send a memo to the guitarist.

Kinetic Typography

See also:

Top 12 kinetic typography films at The Place João Bordalo Calls Home

15 stunning motion typography videos at Marco Folio

(and via) Great scenes from television and film told using only typography at Always Watching

Stop-motion cardboard cut-out animation of light cycle scene fron Tron. Is this the sort of thing we apparently call "sweded" now?

Via Drawn!.

Lisa Anne Auerbach's The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting

Via Eyeteeth.

Endings depress me. Rankings irk me. This is hell.

(And a pdf file.)

Via Talking Squid.

Now you don't need to climb Everest.

(Not that anyone ever did, mind.)

Ah, the old George Bush Speechalist bit. Good to see it's still around.

Self-destructing website

NB: largish flash animation.

Harlan Ellison interviewed (click the "Listen to the interview" link for the whole thing) at Salon, about, ostensibly, the new documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Trailer, footage of the premiere speeches and Q & A, and various readings available at the site. See also Ellison's thoughts on the proposed WGA contract, just for the hell of it.

24-hour Live Journal Strike

We have* these at blogger too, but only coz the site goes down.

* OK, to be fair, it's been a while since the last one.

Clarke and Dawe get boinged. Hope the steam-driven ABC site bears up to the traffic.

Ah, cool! I was hoping to find the link to this: Wind turbine explodes

BigDog

Packhorse robot. Watch this thing negotiate hills and snowbanks, and avoid falling over after slipping on ice.

Move over, Cute Overload - it's the Armadillo Girdled Lizard!

CGI animated short film: Rockfish

Via theinferior4+1.

From the ridiculous* to the sublime: the tsuba

* Yesterday's post, just to be clear.

I choose to link to the Dancing Walrus.

Objective Christian Ministries Science Fair
Yes, it's satire. Enjoy.
Via Pharyngula.

Night of Silence

Commemorating the victims of Nazism on the 70th anniversary of the anschluss.

Some photographs of the candle installations at Heldenplatz, Vienna, from Flickr:
one two three four five six seven eight

Not. Glow. In. The. Dark.

They fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Making them fluorescent.

NOT. GLOW. IN. THE. DARK. Got it?!

Urban Exploration in Poland

Denis Darzacq - Hyper

Original Vs Remake

"DVNO" by Justice

Dunno if the single's any good (didn't listen, to be honest) but the video is a lovingly detailed tribute to the cheesy animated logos of the Eighties.

At Google Video, the 1990 (or is it 1993? - given I saw it on first release you'd think I'd remember) documentary Cyberpunk. Gosh, Gibbo looks young.

Chat Noir
Catch the cat.

Peter Russell Clark (Australian celebrity chef of the 80s) blooper reel - NB: Frequent Strong Language.

Scene from Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger done in claymation - internet scuttlebutt claims this clip was banned, which seems to mean deleted from original cinematic release, like all those other "banned" scenes you get to watch on DVD extras. Wikipedia entry; IMdB entry. You can't help be amused by people commenting "Who knew Mark Twain was so dark?" What did they teach these people?