“Rappers on The Weakest Link” Reminiscence

Today I was reminiscing about a video I saw a couple years ago and thought I’d dig up this oldie but goodie.

These were some popular rappers playing a game show called The Weakest Link to raise money for charity. You won’t believe what people answer on some of the more simple quiz questions.

And all this can be seen on our favorite video sharing site, youbet.., youtube (27min).

AmonTobin.com launching Feb. 26th

This is a teaser for Amon Tobin’s new website, which launches on February 26th.
A designer said:

I’m from Notice Bureau, we were in charge of creative and art direction on this project, and we’ve been working on this for over a year. Don’t know if it exactly applies to your blog, but it sure is fun, and we created more that 30mns of animations and videos for the final site.

Meanwhile watch this unofficial music video of Amon Tobin’s Slowly that some guy made with a video game called Gary’s Mod.

BTW I also bought Gary’s Mod and I’m having way to much fun with it, very addictive. It isn’t exactly a game, it’s an application that gives you all kinds of tools to play around with Half-Life ’s physics engine. You can make movies and do all kinds of crazy shit, just check out the site.

Josdigital’s favorite albums of 2006

I know I should’ve done this around New Year, but I was still too busy discovering new music. You see, the internet was a gold mine for discovering new music and movies at that time cause every blogger came out with their “Best of 2006″ list and so am I.

This isn’t what I feel is the best of 2006, cause I know I’ve been missing out on a lot of underground hiphop, I’ll pick up on that later on. But what I find interesting is that I discovered a lot of new styles and genres this year, and I think that has partially to do with the online music service Last.fm that I’ve been using for the last year or so.
I used to listen to mostly hiphop, instrumental or down-tempo, but since I’ve been using Last.fm I got to know genres like post-rock, electronica, indie rock, ambient and others. BTW this is not an ad for Last.fm :-).

I know I’m a little late but here are my most memorable albums of 2006, in no particular order:

• “Hello Everything” Squarepusher
• “Mr. Beast” Mogwai
  
• “The Eraser” Thom Yorke
• “Days to Come” Bonobo
  
• “The Mouse and the Mask” Danger Doom
• “A Piece of Strange” Cunninlynguists
• “Donuts” J Dilla
  
• “Eigen Wereld” Opgezwolle
• “The Soft Machine” Ozark Henry
• “Swallowed by the Machines” Goddamn Electric Bill
• “The Audience’s Listening” Cut Chemist
• “Return to Cookie Mountain” TV on the Radio
• “Remixes” Four Tet
• “The Information” Beck

Honorable mentions: “Into the Blue Again” The Album Leaf, “So This Is Goodbye” Junior Boys, “The Crane Wife” The Decemberists, “The Garden” Zero 7, “Everything All the Time” Band of Horses

Josdigital.com needs updating

Just wanna let you know that tomorrow my blog will be unavailable cause I’ll be updating my content management system to the recently released WordPress 2.1.

It’ll probably be done within an hour, but if I run into some problems and will most likely happen, it could take a little longer so I’m taking the whole day. Just to let y’all know…

Update: Done, everything went pretty smoothly.

Martin Lawrence as The Pizzaman!

Had nuthin to post and thought I’d digg up one of my favorite Martin Lawrence skits.
Ain’t that the funniest clip you’ve seen.

Some music videos

These are some music videos I enjoyed watching but were to many to post in my “recently watched” sidebar section.

Beck - “Cellphone’s Dead”

The Game ft. Kanye West - Wouldn’t Get Far (DIRTY)

Goddamn Electric Bill - “Lost In The Zoo”

Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…Comes Around

The Killers - Read My Mind

Common: “A Dream”

Daft Punk - Fresh

Adult Swim Presents: Chrome Children II

Ok people get it while it lasts, Peanut Butter Wolf’s Stones Throw label & [adult swim] released yet another free album for limited time only.
Chrome Children 2 is available at Adult Swim and is the digital-only follow-up to Chrome Children CD/DVD which was released a few months earlier.

I already missed out on the Talib Kweli & Madlib Liberation LP, thought I’d snag it later and before I knew it it was gone, so be fast.

Download the entire album here.

Hiroshima, the pictures they didnt want us to see

Here are a series of pictures with description of the suffering after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I must warn you for our sensitive readers, these are some very disturbing pictures.

I’m not approving the bombings or anything, but I want you to see why the Americans decided to kill so many in advance. I mean NOTHING justifies killing thousands of innocent people.

These are pictures of the Nanking Massacre in 1937, where the Japanese killed and raped thousands in a very cruel manner.

Aren’t we blessed to live in this western society where we feed the hungry and help the lesser fortunate?

Myspace Will Censor You

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Myspace sucks as a company.

According to the guys from Ask a Ninja, Myspace is blocking external links to smaller, more innovative video and photo sharing sites like Revver, basically preventing users from posting Revver videos to their site, in favor of others.

If you’re not aware, sites like MySpace and YouTube host your site but also claim the rights to re-publish your videos for their own purposes. That’s right - they can use videos posted on their site in commercials promoting their services OR sell those videos to advertising firms without needing to share revenue with the author.

What MySpace has essentially done (and what would happen if Net Neutrality were ever dissolved) is put restrictions on services which compete with theirs.
If you don’t know what Net neutrality is, read an earlier post I did trying to explain the concept, and why I’m against it.

Ask a Ninja is an extremely funny video podcast that gained a lot of popularity over time. It’s revolves around a ninja who, in a satirical manner, answers user submitted questions about his every day life.
I myself think it’s getting a little “tedious”, I still think the first episode is the funniest.

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