Modern Evolution

Wearing my 'pedantic hat' I guess that there can be no such thing as 'modern evolution'. However, below you can see the evolution of an idea from TV ad to digitized cartoon to, cartoonified* video, to TV ad.

And then to a few new versions that are basically copies (at last count YouTube had over 400 'Boom De Ah Dah' videos posted).

I guess its more a Revolution than an Evolution

The Original TV ad



xkcd's cartoon remake



XKCD's cartoon made into a video

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

xkcd's cartoon video turned into a real video





Hat Tip

kthanxbai!

*copyright Jumblerant

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An open letter to Blogger

Dear Blogger,

Thank you very much for giving so many of us the opportunity to share our feelings, findings and photos with the world at large. I have made new friends, found old friends as well as expanded my mind with your great product BUT why oh why is it so darned difficult to work with?

My award winning and tear jerking posting of last night 'My Brain Beat Me' should have been an easy thing to preview in Google Reader, something like this:


But instead it looked like this;


"Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";..."


Which was rather disappointing as even though it is nonsensical I did in fact not write it.

I spent over 4 minutes writing the post in question, and over 12 minutes thinking about it. Please send me 16 minutes so that I can feel better about Blogger after this controversial and insulting episode. (We know you can do that, you're owned by Google for crying out loud!)

And whilst you're at it please add a YouTube button (also owned by Google) allowing us bloggers easier access to YouTube videos. And a workable retweet button would be useful. And presents, send me presents because I like them.

Oops I feel the meds beginning to kick in...

kthanxbai!

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They've invaded the internet

I grew up in the (ahem) 70's with the Muppet Show and Sesame Street. I was allowed to watch as much of either of them as I liked, which in all honesty wasn't more than half an hour a day as we had no VCR but we did have British terrestrial TV.



As technology advanced the foam puppets moved over to Fraggle Rock and eventually even that was replaced on the TV shows, for the next generation of kids, by Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Postman Pat and other imaginative heroes.



I recently found out that my beloved wife, Mrs Jumblerant (aka Her Indoors or Mrs J) did not watch Sesame Street or the Muppet Show as a child. Her elder siblings made sure that the first programs she watched were Happy Days and The Love Boat. Sadly she missed out. She never learnt rudimentary Spanish on the stoop with Maria, or how to count, with the Count.

Sesame Street marked 40 years of production on the 10th November and I'm happy to say that our son Jack will be able to grow up with the The Muppet Show as well as it starts to make a return on YouTube.

Click here to get to the Muppet Show Channel on YouTube for some modern-day Muppet Show fun.

And here, thanks to Topless Robot, is the Muppet Show's 10 Weirdest Moments.

kthanxbai!

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I advise you to watch this video

Way back in April - oh those were the days weren't they? - I shared a lovely video with you.

When: 2nd April

Where: http://jumblerant.blogspot.com

What: Her morning elegance

But now I found something that might be even more interesting.


Watch it and enjoy. If you can work out how it was done please tell us in the comments!

kthanxbai!

100 Greatest Hits of youTube

As a YouTube-aholic I was glued to my monitor whilst this was on.

And I laughed hysterically.

And hurt my ribs a bit too.

Hope you do too. (The laughing bit, not the pain).



Hat tip to Now That's Nifty (again!)


kthanxbai!

Now that Oprah has named herself the Queen of Twitter, and that nonce from That 70's Show who is going out with Demi Moore was the first to get 1,000,000 followers on Twitter, we are now looking ahead to what the next technology is.

Flutter: The New Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s

Image via CrunchBase

Why the url adn not a fancy YouTube video? Because the buggers wouldn't let me upload the video!! Despite / to spite them go there and have look.

I'm too tired to work around the problem. And too lazy i guess.

kthanxbai!