My brother nearly died choking on his Earl Grey tea when he saw this video

To help promote the Bob Dylan biopic coming out, there’s a website gadget that lets you replace the written lyrics on the cue cards in the Pennebaker video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with words of your own choosing. At least one person used this to make a smart statement on commercialism in our society. Daniel …

You talkin’ to me?

Major media outlets like the New York Times haven’t been covering the story of blogger Kathy Sierra, the death threats she has (purportedly) received, the sympathetic blog shut downs, the resulting backlash, and so on. So it’s maybe not so surprising that advertisers also haven’t had a chance to adjust their ad campaigns. Or, maybe …

Oh, such grace! Such beauty!

Sport imitates viral marketing: Olympic-caliber skaters adapt the OK Go “A Million Ways” video. My favorite bits: the male skater flapping his arms like a chicken while skating backwards and kicking, and the slo-mo karate chop. Also, the announcers seem unaware that the odder moves are copied from a music video. And they seem bewildered …