Wednesday, May 16, 2007

10 Videos that made YouTube Famous!!



"Lazy Sunday," featuring Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell, is YouTube's first greatest hit, and it's an example of the sort of content--short-form comedy--that is ideal for the YouTube format. "Lazy Sunday" was posted the day after it aired and quickly became one of the most-viewed videos on the site. NBC's lawyers freaked and asked YouTube to remove the video after 5 million viewings, but it has been reposted and removed numerous times since. Its popularity led NBC to make the video available through Apple's iTunes and has driven the availability of online "snippet" content culled from broadcast television.




Created and posted in March by Philip de Vellis, a democratic operative with connections to the Barack Obama campaign, the Hillary "mash-up" contains clips of Ms. Clinton's speeches inserted into a famous 1984 ad for Apple Computer. De Vellis lost his job at Blue State Digital, a design firm working on Democratic campaigns, after his identity was revealed on HuffingtonPost.com. Simple and direct, it remains the best example of YouTube's potential as a venue for political warfare, skillfully playing on Clinton's reputation as a purveyor of canned sentiment.




Warning: Do not watch this video more than two times in one day. Excess viewing may result in humming the addictive chorus until epilepsy sets in. As music videos go, it is a perfect storm of YouTube popularity--an endlessly catchy tune, a simple yet original execution (how many times did they have to rehearse that eight-treadmilled routine until they got it right in one long take?) and a proud trumpeting of a low-budget ethos.



This spot on the list could just as easily have been given to music videos from artists like My Chemical Romance, Fallout Boy or the easily excited Fergie. The popularity of teenybop-pop, pop-punk and hip-pop on YouTube is an unfortunate side-effect of the site's democratic, populist ethos. And the frequency with which this category of poptastic videos makes it into the "Most Viewed" category is a testament to the apocalyptic horrors that await us should we ever give 13-year-old girls the right to vote.



This is perhaps the best example of YouTube's strength as a talent showcase. With the understated simplicity of its title (simply, "Guitar"), the no-frills presentation of its subject and its jaw-dropping impressiveness, it is perhaps the purest example of a YouTube video. "Guitar" earns its perpetual place on YouTube's "Most Viewed" list by virtue of its unstoppable rock dominance. This kid shreds. And it is at the center of a whole sub-genre of YouTube videos: the webcam guitar solo.



Far and away the most-viewed video on YouTube, "Evolution of Dance" is one of the more interesting of a related YouTube sub-genre: regular people videotaped on stage. The site has blossomed as a forum for strange, impressive or hilarious acts--whether it's college students reenacting "Super Mario Brothers" or "inspirational comedian" Judson Laipply running through every popular dance craze of the past 50 years--to gain exposure beyond the original, usually small, audience.



Call it "Doofus in a Room with a Webcam"--these videos are often interchangeable, distinguishable by the fact that they are usually desperate attempts for YouTube notoriety. They can be cute, like two girls in a bedroom singing along to the Pixies, or grating, like the Smosh guys singing along to the Pokemon theme song. In the competition for YouTube fame, they are like the kid in the plastic costume at the Halloween party--examples of the bare-minimum effort required to enter.



A 16-year-old home-schooled American teenager named Bree narrates her story into a webcam, leading viewers on a voyage of life, love, the occult, abduction and self-obsession. Except she's really an actress, and the series is a hoax--scripted content passing itself off as a webcam confessional. When the ruse was exposed, it was an international news event, and millions of consumers heard the word "YouTube" for the first time. In the time since, Bree and friends have continued to post further webisodes that are, collectively, somehow more boring than the Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode they inspired.




Stephen Colbert's feisty performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner generated a lot of heat among the Beltway punditry, but it generated even more heat on YouTube, where it was heavily downloaded in the weeks following the event. At the demand of cable network C-SPAN, which initially broadcast the dinner, it has since been removed from YouTube's servers. Google Video now holds the exclusive right to show the video. Clips from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and The Daily Show were among the most popular clips on YouTube during its formative months and helped build the site's popularity; now the two shows can generally only be seen on Comedy Central's Web site.



The weepy guitar ballad. The long-haired guy with the velour jacket. The location inside a mall. There are so many reasons to hate this saccharine video, with music by the misnamed Sick Puppies--which makes the fact that it is strangely affecting that much more frustrating. Along with cutesy clips like "Hahaha" (an infectious laughing baby) and countless silly animal clips, it's consistently ranked among YouTube's most-viewed videos.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Worlds Biggest Whiners...!!


French workers are the world's biggest whiners, according to a study published Monday which said the Irish complain least about their lot.

Britons come second to their Gallic cousins in the moaning stakes, followed by Sweden, the United States and Australia. Japanese workers have the lowest morale, but don't complain so much.
The lowest levels of whining were found in the Netherlands, Thailand and Ireland, according to the study by the FDS research group.
It is interesting to note that after France, Britain and Sweden, the world's biggest workplace whiners are Americans, despite their having by far the highest levels of income," said FDS chief Charlotte Cornish.
"Compare them to Thai workers: while real levels of income are more than eight times higher in the States, more workers in the US feel their pay is a problem than in Thailand," she added.
The study, entitled "What Workers Want, A Worldwide Study of Attitudes to Work and Work-Life Balance", draws on data from 14,000 employees in 23 countries.
They were notably asked about their satisfaction with issues including pay levels and their work-life balance, as well as average working hours.
In terms of worker morale, Dutch workers are the happiest, followed by their Thai and Irish counterparts. The lowest morale of all is found in Japan, followed by Germany, said the study.
The study's authors noted that rightwing French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy shouldn't expect things to become happier anytime soon, as he prepares to shake up notoriously strike-prone France.
"The UK and US, with their marked competitive individualism and unequal wealth distribution, both appear towards the top of the world's list of whingiest workers," said Cornish.
"The French come out on top -- it seems unlikely that Nicolas Sarkozy's election and the likely shift to more Anglo-Saxon economic practices will make the workers in France any more happy with their lot," she added.

Monday, May 14, 2007

The most expensive car number-plate(tag) in the WORLD!!


Emirati Talal Khouri holds up the most expensive car number-plate in the world after purchasing the plate for 25.2 million dirhams (6.86 million US dollars, 5.07 million euros) at a special car number-plate auction at the Emirates palace hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Biggest Summer Movie Box Officer Ever!!

#25: 'The Hulk'
Release date: June 20, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $62,128,420
Total box office: $132,175,874

#24: 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace'
Release date: May 19, 1999
Opening weekend box office: $64,810,970
Total box office: $431,088,295

#23: 'Rush Hour 2'
Release date: Aug. 3, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $67,408,222
Total box office: $226,164,286

#22: 'The Mummy Returns'
Release date: May 4, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $68,139,035
Total box office: $202,019,785

#21: 'Planet of the Apes'
Release date: July 27, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $68,532,960
Total box office: $180,011,740

#20: 'Finding Nemo'
Release date: May 30, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $70,251,710
Total box office: $339,714,978

#19: 'Mission: Impossible II'
Release date: May 24, 2000
Opening weekend box office: $70,816,215 (4-day take)
Total box office: $215,409,889

#18: 'Austin Powers in Goldmember'
Release date: July 26, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $73,071,188
Total box office: $213,117,789

#17: 'Pearl Harbor'
Release date: May 25, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $75,177,654 (4-day take)
Total box office: $198,542,554

#16: 'War of the Worlds'
Release date: June 29, 2005
Opening weekend box office: $77,061,953 (4-day take)
Total box office: $234,280,354

#15: 'The Da Vinci Code'
Release date: May 19, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $77,073,388
Total box office: $217,536,138

#14: 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'
Release date: May 16, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $80,027,814
Total box office: $310,676,740

#13: 'X2: X-Men United'
Release date: May 2, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $85,558,731
Total box office: $214,949,694

#12: 'Bruce Almighty'
Release date: May 23, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $85,734,045 (4-day take)
Total box office: $242,704,995

#11: 'The Day After Tomorrow'
Release date: May 28, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $85,807,341 (4-day take)
Total box office: $186,740,799

#10: 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'
Release date: May 23, 1997
Opening weekend box office: $90,161,880 (4-day take)
Total box office: $229,086,679

#9: 'The Matrix Reloaded'
Release date: May 15, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $91,774,413
Total box office: $281,519,061

#8: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'
Release date: June 4, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $93,687,367
Total box office: $249,538,952

#7: 'Shrek 2'
Release date: May 19, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $108,037,878
Total box office: $436,721,703

#6: 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith'
Release date: May 19, 2005
Opening weekend box office: $108,435,841
Total box office: $380,270,577

#5: 'Spider-Man'
Release date: May 3, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $114,844,116
Total box office: $403,706,375

#4: 'Spider-Man 2'
Release date: June 30, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $115,817,364 (4-day take)
Total box office: $373,377,893

#3: 'X-Men: The Last Stand'
Release date: May 26, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $122,861,157 (4-day take)
Total box office: $234,362,462

#2: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
Release date: July 7, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $135,634,554
Total box office: $423,315,812

#1: 'Spider-Man 3'
Release date: May 4, 2007
Opening weekend box office: $151,116,516
Total box office: ??

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Watch the COKE fountain!!



i was pretty amazed when i had a look at this ad while i was quivering over the internet and thought of having in my personal blog!!

Amazing MS-Paint!


I never use MS-paint as it kind of sucks and i thought it was a kiddie thing but I was to be proven wrong when i stumbled onto this master piece i could never imagine how someone can do this by using MS-paint,the guy must be one heck of a creative head!!

Monday, May 7, 2007

What do you MEAN I'm not going to die?


A British man who went on a wild spending spree after doctors said he only had a short time to live wants compensation because the diagnosis was wrong and he is now healthy -- but broke.

John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within a year.
He quit his job, sold or gave away nearly all his possessions, stopped paying his mortgage and spent his savings dining out and going on holiday.
Brandrick was left with little more than the black suit, white shirt and red tie that he had planned to be buried in when it emerged a year later that his suspected "tumor" was no more than a non-life threatening inflammation of the pancreas.
"When they tell you you've got a limited time and everything, you do enjoy life," Brandrick, from Cornwall in the west of England, told Sky television.
"I'm really pleased that I've got a second chance in life... but if you haven't got no money after all this, which is my fault -- I spent it all -- they should pay something back."
If he can't get compensation, he is considering selling his house or suing the hospital that diagnosed him. The hospital has said that while it sympathizes with Brandrick, a review of his case showed no different diagnosis would have been made.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Interesting facts about teens & Technology..What dyu think??

94%: The number of youth ages 12-17 who have Internet Access who say they use the Internet for school research.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
Where does that leave our libraries and the hard back encyclopedia? How can we make the Internet more user friendly, on-line librarians to assist you?
64%: The number of online teens who say the Internet takes away from family time.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
How can families include technology in their family time? Can the Internet be utilized to spark family times, instead of take away from it?
55%: The number of parents who say it is essential for their children to learn online skills in order to be successful. 40% think mastery of such skills is important.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
Shouldn't this number be higher?
500 Billion: The number of text messages sent and received worldwide in 2005. By 2010, it's projected to be more than 2.3 trillion.
Source: Verizon Wireless
That is a lot of overworked thumbs! LOL!
96 Million: The number of myspace.com registered users.
8 Million: The number of facebook.com members.
30 Million: The number of friendster.com members

Any thoughts?

4 basic types of email fwd's

I find these kinda mails very annoying and frustrating too...hope you guys also felt the same at one point or the other....:-)

Chain Letter Type 1:

Make a wish!!!

Really, go on and make one!!!

Oh please, they'll never go out with you!!!

wish something else!!!

Not that, you pervert!!

Is your finger getting tired yet?

STOP, DAMMIT!!!!
Wasn't that fun? Hope you made a great wish. Now, to make you feel guilty, here's what I'll do. First of all, if you don't send this to a certain number of people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and then thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It's true! Because, you know, THIS letter isn't like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!!

Really!!! Here's how it goes.

Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

20 to 674, 951 1/2 people: 20 to 674, 951 1/2 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.

Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!!

Chain Letter Type 2

Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no willie. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Willieless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Remember, we have no way of counting letters sent and this is all bullshit. So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder- if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly. Thanks again!!

Chain Letter Type 3

Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible becuase there was no email then and probably not as many bitchy little 8 year olds writing chain letters. So this is how it works. Pass this on to 1-5067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:
Queer Horror Story #1

Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently recieved this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of shit, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died.This Could Happen To You!!!

Queer Horror Story #2

Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his boyfriend (hey, some people swing that way). They both died and went to hell. They continued to suffer in hell where they were both cursed to eat adorable kittens every day for eternity. This Could Happen To You!!!

Remember, you could end up like Pinsley and Bip did. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be Ok.

Chain Letter Type 4:

As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends.
Friends
A friend is someone who is always at your side,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you smell like shit,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you're disgustingly ugly,
A friend is someone who cleans up for you after you've soiled yourself,
A friend is someone who stays with you all night while you cry about your loser life,
A friend is someone who pretends they like you when they really think you should be raped by a mad goat and then thrown to vicious dogs,
A friend is someone who scrubs your toilet and vacuums and then gets the check and leaves and doesn't speak much English, no sorry that's the cleaning lady,
A friend is not someone who sends you shitty chain letters because he wants his wish of his crush sucking his schlong him to come true.
Now pass this on! If you don't, Satan will screw you in your sleep!!
There. Now that we've covered and dumped on the four main types of chain letters, onto the ironic part. In order for this to get any popularity, send it on!!! If you don't think it was funny at all, don't bother, but otherwise forward this sucker to everyone you know!! If you don't, I don't care, but why not show this around? Take two minutes and forward it. Thanks!

Remember, the moral of the story is, if you get a chain letter, ignore it. If it's a joke or something, send it, sure, but if it's gonna make people feel guilty (i.e. the willieless boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen) or nervous (i.e. Miranda Pinsley who ended up in a waterfall of shit) just delete it. Do yourself a favor, and everyone else in the world, and say "#$@!%#^! CHAIN LETTERS!!"

Meet the Mr.fastest....Bugatti Veyron



Meet the Bugatti Veyron - the fastest production car on the planet, only for a mere $1.67M.

Stats:
Class: Supercar
Top Speed: 253 mph (faster than Forumla1 cars)
Acceleration: 0 mph to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds
Horsepower: 1001
Cylinder: 16
Radiators: 10
Production: 300 Cars in 2006

Interesting facts:
While driving at top speed the tires will only last 50 minutes and the fuel only 12 minutes.
In order to hit it’s top speed, a second key must be inserted to modify the car so it can reach it’s top speed.
At top speed, the Veyron’s engine draws in as much air per minute as an adult male does in four days.

Click Hereto see a video of the Bugatti Veyron’s…
…awesomeness.

Did you know tat a pizza is worth $1000!! chk it out!!


If you have a thousand US dollars, you live in New York city, and you feel that you have nothing good to do with that money... then go to Nino's Bellisima!
This restaurant is run by an Albanian chef named Nino Selimaj, who owns five more restaurants in New York. In this specific restaurant, he recently added a new dish to its menu: A 30 cm. wide pizza topped with several types of caviar and lobster. This eccentricity is sold at $1,000 USD. According to Selimaj, one of these pizzas has already been sold, probably to a customer that didn't mind wasting such amount of money. Of course, in the opinion of its creator, the pizza is "delicious".
No matter how hard a person tries to convince me, I don't think that any pizza in the world should be priced to $1,000 USD. It's just ridiculous. In any case, I don't expect to be one of the swindled customers to purchase such pizza, but I wish this fellow good luck with his new creation.
I'd love to hear from someone who tries this dish...