Piecemeal

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Greetings on a Friday,

Random pieces make good in this track, which is made up entirely of comments solicited from YouTube users. A lyrical masterpiece, as you might expect. What's the song mean? He has no earthly idea. But I guess that's the thing about great art -- you just can't define it.

Marty's YouTube Comments Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywXUaklEx-s


Don't Assume
Animated video on the classic theme of frustrating your expectations of a dirty rhyme.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/460854


Mash it
Amuse yourself with this DIY video mashup tool.
http://beta.mashface.com/


Del's Beautiful New Wooden Machine
American ingenuity at its best: A very intricate contraption that produces...absolutely nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ziwuIpnVY


QuOteD
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." -- Peter F. Drucker


Cat vs. printer
Mild-mannered cat is unnerved by a laser printer and starts bashing it. Worth it, for his increasingly-alarmed facial expression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQRHdMRimw


Quick pic: ...and you thought you had a bad job (Thanks K-man)
http://vinweasel.posterous.com/and-you-thought-you-had-a-bad


Friday Game: Powers of Estimation
A couple of tests of spatial and temporal "intelligence" -- Eyeball it and Time it.


Strange Neighbors Make Strange Fences
Spiders weave webs, and humans build fences. And some of them more interesting than the actual stuff they enclose.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/some-of-worlds-strangest-fences.html


Famous last words
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." -- Woody Allen


War in and have a good weekend,
vW