You may have noticed recently that Twitting is all the rage now.

Last week, George Stepnanopolis conducted the worlds first network Twitter interview with John McCain. Celebrities are twitting all over the place. Senators were twitting during the President’s recent address to Congress. I guess you could say that the twits are everywhere.

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Here’s an incredibly important presentation that took place at the New York Public Library. This particular excerpt features internet champion, Lawrence Lessig talking about YouTube’s influence on the sharing of media.

The full program can be found here.

Here’s how to turn that old piece of electronics into something really useful. But don’t forget to use marshmallows! I cannot stress this enough.

This pleases me greatly. Thank you random web-designer homepage spawn point.

Link to larger view.

Generally, I’m a huge fan of cinema. Then, tonight, I stumbled upon this incredibly captivating amateur video of a camera on a sushi restaurant conveyor belt. No acting, no editing, no production, and yet a remarkably revealing piece. Maybe we’re all just voyeurs who consume anything we’re presented with.

I really get caught up in the relativity of the piece. Are the people moving, or the camera? Yes, we know the actual answer, but functionally either could be true.

Intelligent crank Louis CK, gives us all a reality check on the Late Late Show.

(Thanks to the Factor for pointing this out)

Timeless.

Be vewy vewy quiet!

In case you haven’t already heard, a British and French nuclear-powered submarine collided about two weeks ago in the mid-Atlantic, though apparently nothing serious happened (otherwise I have a suspicion we would have, er, noticed).  But you’ll be happy to know that the crack investigators of the respective militaries have just figured out why:

“The accident probably happened because the two submarines were not aware of each other.”

Oh, crazy veteran military investigators!  Is there anything you can’t figure out?

Genius.  Extra points if you can figure out what he’s saying at the very end.

Get your day-glo vests and buckshot ready, it’s Fat Cat Season.

Average Americans, armed with incendiary e-mails and blog commentaries are actually beginning to affect Business As Usual. An op-ed from yesterday’s NYT documents the new populist fervor.

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