Try to guess what song it is before he tells you halfway through.

(via Boing Boing)

WATCH THIS! It’s an interesting idea, and I’m curious to see where it goes. I hope these people that participate, though, don’t get in trouble for taping their end of the phone call. Remember to ask for permission, folks! This is a neat way of leveraging YouTube for a campaign.

This is a minor spoiler, so if you’re a Battlestar Galactica fan and haven’t seen the season finale for Season 3, stop reading this now. I got turned onto Battlestar Gallactica after friends kept saying it was a good show. I’ve been hooked after seeing season 1 and have been keeping up with the latest season.

Last night’s episode featured a tight, awesome cover of Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower which had a cool Indian/Middle Eastern feel. I can’t find the recording online right now, but I have the episode on iTunes and keep skipping to the end so I can listen to it.

In an effort to track down who covered it, I hit Google and found out that the cover was written specifically for Battlestar. It will be on the Season 3 soundtrack according to the artist who arranged this version. If you read his blog post, he goes through how he went about building the arrangement. It makes for great reading.

I’m looking forward to getting a copy of this track when it’s available.

Here’s a clip from YouTube that shows the end. The music plays over most of the clip, though it skips the best parts with the electric sitar. Be warned! The clip contains spoilers, in fact it pretty much gives away the climax of Season 3. Do not watch if you haven’t see the whole episode!

That’s pretty sweet, and amazing that it was written for a show. BTW, I really want that guys studio setup…

This is easily the best explanation of what “Web 2.0″ is meant to describe…

That’s impressive. The video has been going around for a while but I hadn’t watched it until today.

I love the city, but they should be ridiculed for the whole bomb scare fiasco. And, here we go:

That’s actually pretty good.

Just for you, some more songs from the musical episode:

So touching…

Update: Here’s more:

How can you not love this episode?

NBC released a behind-the-scenes video on YouTube, too:

too funny…

OK this is nuts:

The Stars did end up winning but holy crap. I love that the announcer doesn’t hold back at all.

This has to go in the bizarre but apparently true column. An independent filmmaker is making a film about Ryan Leaf. Why? I don’t actually know. Will I watch it? Let’s just say I hope to never see it even on accident flipping through the channels. It might even be more unbelievable in HD.

Here’s the trailer:

I can’t even tell if it’s an elaborate joke or just bad production values…

No, not a regular feature, but Atrios has some good videos linked up and I wanted to show all of you.

Here they are. The first is a video about some weird video doctoring on the White House web site:

The other video is from CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz. After starting out with the typical “the troops resent the media coverage,” Kurtz talks to CNN’s John Roberts who just came back from Iraq. Roberts provides a different perspective, where the violence is worse than what we see or appreciate via U.S. media coverage. I recommend that you watch the foreign press now and again. You’ll be surprised at the differences in tone and quality of coverage.

Enjoy.

Update: The first video is wrong. It’s a black box that’s inserted by the captioning software. The explanation of why it was considered doctored didn’t sound all that likely, but I didn’t know enough to say so. It’s why I left it with little commentary.

I can’t really explain why I remembered this today, but this has to be my favorite music video ever:

Love it!

Weird Al is a clever guy, and his music is often smart and funny. Josh got me to look at White and Nerdy and from there, I bought the album. I am telling you, this album is pretty classic Weird Al. My favorite song, and the most interesting arrangement, is Polkarama where he blends together all of these songs into one 4:17 long work of art:

• Chicken Dance
• Let’s get it started - Black Eyed Peas
• Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
• Beverly Hills - Weezer
• Speed of Sound - Coldplay
• Float On - Modest Mouse
• Feel Good - Gorillaz
• Don’t Cha - The Pussycat Dolls
• Somebody Told Me - Killers
• Candy Shop - 50 Cent
• Drop It Like It’s Hot - Snoop Dogg
• Pon de Replay - Rihanna
• Gold Digger - Kanye West

Worth buying.

Update: Of course, YouTube has the video:

Makes me smile every time.