Violence. Spoilers. Genius. Kubrick vs Scorsese. (via kottke)

A remix of will.i.am’s Yes We Can video with John Boehner stepping up to provide the standard Republican contribution:

Builds nicely, and the end is the best part. Found it via this Frank Rich op-ed, The Rage Is Not About Health Care.

Lost meets 24: the crash of flight 815 in realtime:

Upular: “composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Disney Pixar film Up.” Totally new and original sounding, yet still capturing the feel of the movie somehow. I love the shift at 1:28.

Check the cinematic destruction of NYNY set to Rhapsody in Blue.

Wow, very impressive, here’s the “Trinity Help” scene from The Matrix, done in stop-motion with only Legos (although I’d really recommend clicking through and watching the bigger version instead):

The side-by-side comparison is also great. Finally, here’s the LegoMatrix site.

(via kottke)

I love DJ Steve Porter’s Press Hop. “Not a game not a game not a game…”

Ocean’s Eleven with Kermit in the Clooney role. Had the Muppets made Ocean’s Twelve it might have been watchable.

I wanted to do something with Twitter, so hatched plovr. It scans Twitter looking for people who need help, and helps you help them (you can reply via the plovr Twitter account, without belonging to Twitter yourself, or you can click through to Twitter and lend a hand as yourself).

If you have a minute, check it out, maybe help a stranger while you’re there!

I know I’m a bit late to the party on this one, but ThruYOU is incredible. Nothing but YouTube videos mixed together to create new (and fantastic) songs. I like to leave it open in another tab while I work because the music is so good.

If you are a fan Jarratt Moody’s typographic Pulp Fiction mashup, now you can buy the t-shirt version. (via josh spear)

instantwatcher.com provides an excellent, minimalist directory of all the Netflix movies that are available for streaming. I’ve been a Netflix subscriber forever, but until now I didn’t realize how many great movies (drama, 4.0 rating or better) were available.

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes:

Let us cut out their living guts one inch at a time, and they will know what we can do! Let no man forget how menacing we are. We are lions! You’re like a big bear, man!”

(via waxy)

Just Like the Movies is a short film (~20 minutes) by Michal Kosakowski which uses pre-9/11 movie clips to convey the events and feel of the day, accompanied by solo piano. (more details, via kottke)

Ridiculously good: the trailer for Quantum of Wallace. (via andrew sullivan)

YouTube: King Kong Singing.

Google just launched My Maps, which provides a nice interface for creating your own custom maps with shapes, placemarks, etc. Idris posted the idea of using this as a tool for creating field maps.

Cool idea, I'm going to do this for our various pickup locations. I just played with this for five minutes, and it's really nice. You can draw fields. You can stick in placemarks, which users can click on to get the "directions to here" command. One thing: when you share the link, make sure you use the "Link to this Page" link. If you use your "My Maps" link then stuff like the Zoom and View (map, satellite, or hybrid) are not shared with the user, and the tool just zooms in as close as possible while still displaying all your custom objects (which is no good around here, since we live in the sticks and Google doesn't have imagery at that resolution).

Anyway, here's the result of my five minutes of fiddling.