Weird, Potentially Useful Things
Updated 2/3/11
Clips and Whatnot
Fucking USA (apparently Korean video)
Noah Takes A Picture... (YouTube)
Imperial History of the Middle East
The Trailer Mash - Film Trailer Mashups
Call Upon the Sea Ponies (YouTube)
Myths About the Developing World (Google video)
Charlie Goes to Candy Mountain (YouTube)
Article/Clip on DJ Spooky's 'Rebirth of A Nation'
Opening Montage from Bob Flanagan's Sick (YouTube)
Flight of the Conchords 'Think About It (YouTube)
Man Stroke Woman 'Estate Agent' (YouTube)
Trapped in the Closet - R. Kelly (YouTube)
Planet of the Arabs - Jackie Salloum (YouTube)
When the Smoke Clears (YouTube)
Larry Lessig: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law
South Park: You Got Served (YouTube)
Take On Me (Literal Version) (YouTube)
Death Star Canteen - Eddie Izzard (YouTube)
Just Dance - Movie Dancing Tribute (YouTube)
Supernatural "Eye of the Tiger" (YouTube)
Baby It's Cold Outside (Gap Ad feat. Selma Blair and Rainn Wilson) (YouTube)
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes (YouTube)
A Vision of Students Today (YouTube)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Literal Version) (YouTube)
An Example of Everyday Racism/Discrimination in America (Google video)
Are You Perverted? Anti-Pornography Sex Education (1960's) (YouTube)
How to Tell People They Sound Racist
'Titanic' in Five Seconds (YouTube)
'The Lion King' in Five Seconds (YouTube)
Color in Motion - Claudia Cortes (useful for film color)
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice (YouTube)
Sweep the Leg - No More Kings (YouTube)
Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris: Way of the Dragon (YouTube)
Shatner on the Mount - Fall on Your Sword (YouTube)
Battle of the Year 2008 Final T.I.P. vs. Top 9 (YouTube)
Media that Matters: Short Films that Inspire Action
Pitchfork Lists: 100 Awesome Music Videos
Moving Image Archive: Feature Films
A Very Potter Musical Act 1 Part 1 (YouTube)
Museum of Broadcast Communications Archive
Single Ladies - John Barrowman (YouTube)
Bohemian Rhapsody - The Muppets (YouTube)
Star Wars (John Williams is the Man) - a cappella tribute by Moosebutter (YouTube)
Wizard People, Dear Reader (YouTube)
The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies (YouTube)
The Most Ridiculous Edited-for-TV Movie Lines (Gawker)
Review/Analysis of Glee S2E6: Never Been Kissed (Tom & Lorenzo)
Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity (TED)
Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets (YouTube)
'Fuck You' Sign Language Performance (YouTube)
Written Stuff
What to Do When You Can't Win an Argument
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Rap Represented in Mathematical Charts and Graphs
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Clay Shirky
(The Customer Is) Not Always Right
Did I Miss Anything? - Tom Wayman (Poem/commentary on today's undergrad)
How Not To Be Insane When Accused Of Racism (A Guide For White People) - Ampersand
Maxims of Advice for Incoming Undergraduates
Derrida's Obituary or, Is Literary Theory too Abstruse? - Joseph Kugelmass
SATs, College, and Books that Make you Dumb: The Politics of Academic Merit (Jezebel)
Storyboards from Michael Bay's 'The Great Gatsby' - Daniel O'Brien (Cracked.com)
The Face of the Other (Do Manga Characters Look 'White'?) - Matt Thorn
Common and Hidden Knowledge
The Buffet Effect - Jon Evans (Tor.com) Rambling Thoughts about Women and Refrigerators--In and Out of Them A Personal History of Anime and Manga (the gender side) The Genius of 'Gossip Girl' - Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar (NY Magazine) Diary Hard: An explosion-by-explosion account of the greatest movie of all time - Josh M. Who Built the Pyramids? - John Shaw (Harvard Magazine) What We Don't Know is What Our Students Don't Know-only arguably more so Your first assignment: read this - Lynn Crosbie (GlobeCampus) A History of Public Education in the United States - Deeptha Thattai Maxims of Advice for Incoming Undergraduates Dangerous Liasons: Twilight Film Review - Lucy Mangan (The Guardian) Who watches the watcher? or, oh, boy, take out your waders, she's going to talk about Watchmen. Growing Up on Facebook - Peggy Orenstein (NY Times) Make-up and Beauty Regimes for Men '69: How the Sexual Revolution Informed Feminism, Improved Orgasms (Jezebel) How Novels Came to Terms with the Internet - Laura Miller (Guardian) Lights! Camera! Deconstruction!: 19 MOvies that Double as Movie Criticism (AV Club)