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Music Video

Video Fun: Acoustic Versions of Outkast’s HEY YA

Mat Weddle of the band OBADIAH PARKER does an acoustic cover of Outkast’s HEY YA

Ted (Sam Lloyd) on ABC’s SCRUBS

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Gadgets How To Internet Video Websites

How To Do Tilt Shift Photography

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift Lens for Canon SLR CamerasTilt shift photography is a way to make an image or film look like it’s of a toy miniture or the object is made of plastic — just by adjusting the focus used by the camera.

You can use a special tilt shift lens on your SLR camera, or you can manipulate the image digitally with Photoshop to change the focus to a much narrower frame of reference.  Doing so makes the image appear much further away in the shot than it actually is.

You may have already seen some examples of tilt shift photography without even realizing it.  Joss Whedon’s TV show DOLLHOUSE uses tilt shift photography in its opening credit sequence, seen here:

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Funny Internet Video

The Internet in Real Life

Twitter in Real Life

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food How To News

How To Lose 10 Pounds in One Year By Doing Practically Nothing

The New York Post recently had an article entitled WHEN IT COMES TO WEIGHT LOSS, CUT 100 – CALORIES, THAT IS!

The article points out one simple fact:  if you eat 100 fewer calories a day for an entire year and change absolutely nothing else about your exercise or diet plan, then you will be taking in 36,500 fewer calories over the course of those 365 days.

100 fewer calories a day.  That should be easy.

One less fat-free Jell-O Pudding Cup.

One less slice of bread.

One less bottle of original VitaminWater (the full caloric version).

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Book Games Movies

Game: Here’s the Plot, Guess the Story

Post Modern Barney has compiled the WORST PLOT SUMMARIES EVER WRITTEN, and summed up a few dozen movies and books into bite-size nuggets.

The twist is that these are not your traditional plot summaries, but rather a synopsis of the more lurid details of the story.  Unfortunately, many of the hundreds of commenters on the original post think that the idea is to write about how the story ends.  This is not always the case.

I’ll give you the plot summary, all you have to do is guess the name of the story it came from.  Click the link for the answers.

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Funny Movies Music Video

The Top Viral Videos of All Time…so far

Visible Measures, a company that measures online video usage, has released a report that they’ve entitled THE MOST-VIEWED VIRAL VIDEOS OF ALL TIME.

They determined that this particular listing is the first one to compile videos solely based on being viewed more than 100,000,000 times each.  Their sample size is based on 100 million different videos that appear on 150 different video sharing destinations, as opposed to just counting those videos that were viewed directly on the YouTube website.  Those “embed” tags really proved their worth here.

18 videos made the list.  Here are nine of them, including the top five most viewed videos:

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food

A Kentucky Derby Bourbon Balls Recipe

Just in time for the Kentucky Derby in Louisville running later today, here is just one of many different recipes you may find for KENTUCKY DERBY BOURBON BALLS.

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How to Easily Change your Maiden Name

You’re getting married this month, but haven’t given a thought to what you’re going to about your name.

Do you have the paperwork? Do you even know what to do?

Some friends from Canada have setup a service where they will handle most of the heavy lifting for you:  I’M A MRS.  For a small fee, they will provide you with a package containing all government forms, including forms for passport, SSN, voter registration, driver’s license, and more.  For a few dollars more, you’ll also be able to access information that would cover many of your financial contacts: retail credit cards, utilities, insurance, etc.

While this service currently only services Canada, they are expecting to expand into the US soon (if they haven’t done so already by the time you read this).