Can You Spot the Trick? It’s Not What You Think…

How observant are you? Take a look at this Color Changing Card Trick. Can you spot the trick? Well, it’s not what you think…

Professor Wiseman has a few other interesting videos at YouTube, as well as a website called Quirkology that deals with these quirks of psychology. It’s worth checking out.

Filed in Entertainment, Humor, Science, Video.

Move Over Photoshop: Using MS Paint to Draw Mona Lisa

This video is absolutely amazing. This guy/gal used the boring old Microsoft Paint found in every Windows machine to paint a fascimile of Mona Lisa. And it really looks good!

From Youtube.

Filed in Video, Entertainment.

I Go Chop Your Dollar – Nigerian 419 Scam Music Video (Humor)

I just watched this hilarious music video “I Go Chop Your Dollar”, hosted on Youtube, featuring a song performed as though it was sung by one of those 419 Nigerian scammers.

The lyrics, deciphered by CrunchGear, are as follows. You’ll need it because in the manner of a typical Nigerian scam, the sentences are replete with grammatical errors so it’s hard to catch what they’re singing.

I Go Chop Your Dollar

I don’t suffer no be small
Upon say I get sense
Poverty no good at all, no
Na im make I join this business
419 no be thief, its just a game
Everybody dey play am
if anybody fall mugu, ha! my brother I go chop am

Chorus

National Airport na me get am
National Stadium na me build am
President na my sister brother
You be the mugu, I be the master
Oyinbo I go chop your dollar, I go take your money disappear
419 is just a game, you are the loser I am the winner
The refinery na me get am,
The contract, na you I go give am
But you go pay me small money make I bring am
you be the mugu, I be the master… na me be the master ooo!

When Oyinbo play wayo, them go say na new style
When country man do im own, them go de shout bring am, kill am, die!
Oyinbo people greedy, I say them greedy
I don see them tire thats why when them fall enter my trap o!
I dey show them fire

Filed in Entertainment, Humor, Video.

EA: Tiger Woods Can Walk on Water. Really! (Humor)

Techdirt points to EA’s response to the criticism about EA’s golfing game, where due to a bug, players can make Tiger Woods stand in the middle of a water trap to take a shot. They put out a commercial that shows that the real Tiger Woods can really do such a thing. It’s hilarious! And a brilliant PR move.

The Youtube video can be found here.

Filed in Advertising, Humor, Video.

Font Conference Video (Humor)

Font Conference is a hilarious video from College Humor. It brings to us all the fonts we know and love, as well as those we hate, in a skit featuring fonts as characters attending a conference. I won’t spoil it for you. Just watch it yourself.

Filed in Humor, Entertainment, Video.

Hilarious Microsoft Surface Parody

Here’s another hilarious video. This one parodies a Microsoft Surface advertisement.

Like the Wii Fit Parody, the ad echoes my impression of these things.

Filed in Humor, Entertainment, Video.

Wii Fit Parody

Here’s a hilarious video parodying Wii Fit. It even sounds like a serious ad!

Filed in Humor, Entertainment, Video.

Windows XP Welcome Tune: Dignified

I’m sure you’re sick of the start up tune that Windows XP plays. I am. Well, this video actually makes the XP tune beautiful. It was composed/played by Jim of Seattle who makes his music available for free download over the Internet, and some of them are quite good.

The MP3 of this tune is available directly from the composer’s site.

Filed in Entertainment, Video.

Music Made Solely from Windows XP/98 Sounds

Here’s an amusing video featuring music made from sounds found in every Windows XP and 98, you know, the start up sounds and so on.

Due to my perverse sense of humor, or maybe because I spend so many hours in front of a Windows computer, I found it rather funny.

Filed in Entertainment, Video, Humor.

Stage6 – The Plot Thickens: DivX Refuses $11 million Buy Out Of Dead Site

If you were to have a site that you planned to close, so that it will make you exactly $0 – zero dollars – will you refuse an offer from someone to pay $11 million for the dead site? The dead site in question is Stage6, a popular video sharing site that closed at the end of February this year. Well, DivX did exactly that. They ignored an $11 million offer to buy Stage6 five days before it closed. They’re still refusing it to-date – even though Stage6 is no longer generating any income for its founders and the offer is still open.

Is this weird or not? This continues the mystery that began with rumor that they were making millions from the Stage6 site at the time they closed.

Filed in News, Video.

Weep: DivX’s Stage6 to Close at the End of February

This is really sad news: Stage6, the free video sharing using DivX, is going to close at the end of February. It’s really sad, because it was one of the better video sharing sites around. Unlike YouTube’s crappy video quality, Stage6’s videos are high quality, and you can zoom to full screen without seeing any pixelation if the person who created the video uploaded a good quality version. YouTube’s videos can never be anything but crappy since the resolution is restricted to 320×240.

I guess with the demise of Stage6, I can finally uninstall my DivX. The only reason I installed it was to watch Stage6, which doesn’t work with the free Xvid codec.

Updates:

• Stage6 – The Plot Thickens: DivX Refuses $11 million Buy Out Dead Site
• Incompetence of DivX Owners Killed the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg: Stage6
• Stage6 Closure Shows that Many People Feel the World Owes Them a Living

Filed in Video, Entertainment, News.

“Share. It’s Fair” (File Sharing Video)

Here’s an interesting video from a European political alliance, the Greens/European Free Alliance. It’s part of the “I Wouldn’t Steal” campaign.

Filed under: Video, Entertainment.