News and Flash blog by David August

FBI Turns 100 Tomorrow (news)

2008-07-25T14:19:00.002-05:00

On July 26, 2008, the FBI will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a national security agency

(from fbi.gov). The have put materials online for use in publicizing FBI history and no permissions are needed; please just credit the FBI.

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (flash)

2008-07-25T12:28:00.002-05:00

Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0 (rated PG).

Journey At The Center Of The Earth

2008-07-15T20:02:00.001-05:00

Black 20's funny changing of a single two letter word (rated PG).

This is Why I'm Hot - Deployed Style (flash)

2008-07-14T12:42:00.002-05:00

The song "This is Why I'm Hot" sung by air force pilots in the UAE (rated PG).

Nasa Poked Mars

2008-07-11T03:04:00.003-05:00

The Mars lander poked Mars with a fork. You can see it for yourself (from JPL).

Facebook in Reality (flash)

2008-07-06T18:49:00.001-05:00

What would it be like if Facebook was actually played out in real life (rated PG-13).

Muppets Stars and Stripes Forever (flash)

2008-07-04T20:58:00.001-05:00

Sam the Eagle presents a musical salute to America (rated PG).

MUTO (flash)

2008-07-02T12:37:00.002-05:00

Wall-painted animation by BLU (rated PG).

Project Make McCain Exciting: Gray Ambition (flash)

2008-07-02T12:00:00.002-05:00

Madonna's Vogue with John McCain, an entry from Stephen Colbert's 'Project Make McCain Exciting' (rated PG).

The Great Office War (flash)

2008-06-18T22:17:00.000-05:00

War at the Office (rated PG-13).

I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC (flash)

2008-06-09T03:21:00.001-05:00

Mac/PC parody about Batman and Ironman (rated PG-13).

Show Me Your Genitals (flash)

2008-06-06T16:28:00.001-05:00

A song for the ladies by Jon Lajoie (rated R).

Britain's Got Talent: Andrew Johnston (flash)

2008-05-15T17:36:00.001-05:00

13 year old Andrew Johnston sings Pie Jesu (rated PG).

Backwards Sunday (flash)

2008-04-27T15:34:00.001-05:00

An experiment of walking/living backwards, for a day (rated PG-13).

Swan Lake (flash)

2008-04-27T15:28:00.001-05:00

Swan Lake performed by the "Great Chinese State Circus" (rated PG).

Naked Pictures of Your Buddy's Girlfriend (flash)

2008-04-11T17:01:00.001-05:00

One answer to the question: what do you do when you find naked pictures of your best friend's girlfriend (rated R)?

Mathmaticious (flash)

2008-04-05T04:08:00.000-05:00

A mathematical parody of Fergie's Fergalicious (rated PG).

Pachyderm Parade (flash)

2008-03-28T10:50:00.003-05:00

Elephant Walk from the circus train to the place they perform in the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus in Washington DC (rated PG).

Hubble Detects Organic Molecule on an Extrasolar Planet

2008-03-23T19:56:00.002-05:00

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the first organic molecule on a planet that's not in our solar system. According to NASA, this breakthrough could be a major step toward discovering life on other planets. Scientists believe that the organic compound detected, methane, can be an integral part in the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it

(from News.com). Methane is the simplest organic molecule known, and finding it on a planet other than Earth, and outside our solar system, is likely a step closer to being able to find life on a planet very far away, if there is any.

David Mamet on Politics

2008-03-23T00:08:00.001-05:00

...we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances-that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired-in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it

(from Village Voice).

Green Chicago River (flash)

2008-03-17T17:32:00.001-05:00

For St. Patrick's Day, the City of Chicago dyes the Chicago River green (rated PG-13).

Absolut Quartet (flash)

2008-03-16T17:26:00.002-05:00

Impressive machine made musical quartet (rated PG).

Food Court Musical

2008-03-12T12:18:00.001-05:00

16 Agents stage a spontaneous musical in a shopping mall food court in Los Angeles (rated PG).

Iron Man Trailer #2 (flash)

2008-03-02T15:39:00.001-06:00

A slightly longer trailer for Iron Man (rated PG).

Mobile Desktop (flash)

2008-02-27T01:29:00.002-06:00

Several people bring desktop computers into Starbucks to use the wifi (rated PG).