Gnarls Barkley - Who's gonna save my soul?

Just for the aesthetics (thanks, Ley)

Housewife Trippin' on LSD

"I wish I could talk in technicolor"

(Source: Huffington Post via @vaughanbell)

John Cleese - All about the brain

I especially like the partial transcript by TheRitual24 in the comment section: the liviating duds immediatly lubberdutch making contaste and togethatee slip temperance and expandasutatity. A reflection into ocean corrisponse who is perverts supercredity multiveratury equation E=2r... I'll say that again, E=2r. Where R is the radiency of a homemade measure of the vultry affect and i find that in the pervinity stems of the parishilton reserdity overleshes the rihanheteramervan to and effect so as to neglectance of nomad of prosperaty super contraction causes structurmention

LXD @ TED: B-boying has come a long way

Tech-inspired martial arts fusing with B-boy moves backed by spherical music à la "Cirque du Soleil": LXD on the TED stage (check out particularly the solo dancers in the first half of the video, when the violin isn't annoying yet). Stumbled upon through Chris Anderson's article on Crowd Accelerated Innovation in the new Wired (thanks, Chris), in which he applies Steven Johnson's approach of collective ideas to the boost that the evolution of dance received through online video platforms.

The Roaring 1920's on google ngrams

The huge corpus of google ngrams covering 4% of all books ever printed (cf. some scientific background) neatly illustrates the impact of the 1920's.
See "rational vs. emotional" and "Work vs. Party"

Jerry Blossom now twitter- 'n' tumblr-ing

I just understood how twitter works - I guess that makes me a "late adopter".

From now on, little Jerry Blossom tweets can be found there.

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Addendum 17/12/10: For reasons of completeness, I'm also (redundantly) tumblr-ing.

Personal Stats for Annual Reports

New York-based graphic designer Nicholas Felton statistically evaluates and visualizes data from his everyday life. Ever since 2005, he publishes annual reports of the activities he records in painstaking 15 minute segments. He even developed Daytum, a tool which allows you to do the same. A video describing his approach can be found over at Slate (via Mo's twitter).

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Addendum 15/12/2010: Cf. also the third section of Radiolab's "Fate and Fortune" episode covering computational linguistics on for example personal email archives.

(picture from Le Monde, Nov 17, 2010, via the Feltron tumblr)