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Posts under ‘Humor’

Video: Lost/Baywatch Mashup

Hee Hee Hee! Ha Ha Ha!

[Via Paul S. Kemp]

Video: Ok Go’s Rube Goldberg Machine – explained

Adam Sadowsky explains how he and his company created the Rube Goldberg machine for Ok Go’s recent music video.

Video: Incredible Machine

Though I don’t particularly care for the music, this incredible machine (filmed in one continuous camera shot) is amazing to watch!

Video: How Twilight Should Have Ended

I really enjoy the How it Should Have Ended website.

Video: Science Fiction Anoraks

A great bit from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, if you are a SF geek who can laugh at him/herself. I wonder if the shop behind them is Forbidden Planet London?

Book Review: The Trouble With Heroes edited by Denise Little

# Genre: Anthology, Humor
# Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: DAW
# Publication Date: November 3, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0756405793
# ISBN-13: 978-0756405793
# Editor Website: Denise Little
The trouble with heroes, is, of course, that the truth about them is never quite as heroic as the songs, ballads, and stories would have us believe. Using this conceit, editor Denise Little [...]

The Unemployment Rate in Terms of a Zombie Apocalypse

My buddy from college, Matthias Shapiro, has become a CNN contributor. (This is a bigger deal than you expect, since we went to a small private college with under 1,000 students TOTAL.)
He was on live at 5:30 today and did an awesome job in his interview, including showing this well-done video which explains the [...]

SF/F Humor Roundup

Jim C. Hines is collecting the titles and authors of works of speculative humor published in 2009 at his website.

I see two purposes for this list. The first is for award nominations. Humor tends not to be taken seriously**, and rarely makes the award ballots. It’s a shame, because humor can be [...]

Video: Pixar Intro Parody

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

[via James P. Davis]

XKCD: Movie Narrative Charts

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