My Not Quite Definitive Guide to the LES

Decided to check out this new site Nextstop - a combo Yelp, Google Maps mash-up. Pretty cool. Check out my first "guide" to my very own Lower East Side.

Viral Video Your Way to a Job

Was interviewing people this week for a content dev jobby job, and found out how out of the loop I am (this week at least). Posting a sampling below:

1.) Popeye's Got No Chicken! Heard this one time and time again. Controversial local news clip from Rochester, NY about Popeye's running out of chicken and closing down after a special promotion. Besides being a lame story, smacks of being a wee bit racist? yes, no?




2.) "Stand By Me" Around The World. As part of a documentary, filmmakers mashed up singing the classic "Stand by Me" around the world. They have a couple of other songs... well worth watching.



3.) Human Beatboxer - A young Japanese teen struts out his extraordinary beatbox skills... hard to believe those noises are all coming from his mouth! Whack!



4.) Swine Flu PSA: Flashback 1976 - Despite what Michele Bachman says, the last swine flu breakout was in 1976 when Gerald Ford was president. And the lovely networks created these very informative PSA. Also, they're hilarious.

Standing Next To The Hottest Girl Ever, But I'm Too Terrified To Say Anything

The folks at College Humor decided to explore a world where people actually shouted out loud - in public - all their inane twitters.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

That's A Lot of Legal Copy

Another amusing Mac vs PC commercial, this time making fun of all the disclaimers companies - and PCs manufacturers - have to make about their products and services. Why am I not tired of these commercials yet? Surely not solely because I live next door (practically) to Justin Long and shop with John Hodgman (who has an incredibly cute daughter, btw). I'm probably just a horrific white person.

Breaking News: Vanity Fair Actually Funny

Vanity Fair posts this actually amusing intro to an otherwise dry online-delivered Editor's Letter. Does anyone else think big (and little) Graydon Carter should consider changing his Bernie Madoff hairstyle?

Surprise Singer Wows... Famous at 47?

Something completely unexpected from a singer on Britian's Got Talent. YouTube or someone awful has disabled most good embeds of the video, but worth checking out. So stunning!

Yeah, Boyee.... Southwest Takes Manhattan

Southwest Airlines announced today that they're going to start new routes in/out of La Guardia Airport. Rejoice, rejoice. What Jet Blue did to make JFK bearable, let's hop

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e Southwest can bring to pitstop LGA.