Tag: YouTube
Man urinates on dying disabled woman to get YouTube kicks
I wish that headline was a joke, leading into a funny story. But no, it’s the literal truth: Hartlepool resident Anthony Anderson is in court for urinating on 50-year-old Christine Lakinski as she lay dying in a doorway, while filming it on his mobile phone and shouting “This is YouTube material!”.
YouTube Video of the Day – Emoticon suicide
You’ve already been informed of the birthday of the humble emoticon. Well, it seems they’ve had enough of our (fickle web users) ways and now… it’s time for one last “act of desperation”. Good bye cruel (virtual) world
YouTube Video of the Day – Sky Writers
This cracking video features lightwriting in London by the Lichtfaktor crew. An amazing new technique achieved by setting the camera to long time exposure and writing with flash lights on the landscape. You can see more of their work by visiting ww.skymovies.com/starwarsVstartrek
YouTube Video of the Day – Child prodigy scratch DJs
DJ Sara – 8 years old. DJ Ryusei – 5 years old. They make me sick.
It's fun to sue the Y-O-U-T-U-B-E
Last week we had Prince going a bit mental over his internet rights – now it’s time for wedding party favourites The Village People to try and close down YouTube.
The ‘People’ have employed a man dressed like a lawyer…
P2P file sharing could cut up to 95% off video hosting costs
A new study suggests that video publishing services such as YouTube and MSN Video could save up to 95% of their bandwidth costs by implementing some kind of peer-to-peer file sharing system. Researchers from Microsoft in collaboration with the Polytechnic…
Opinion: Why it's now COOL to be a GEEK
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
This is possibly the most important techno story I’ve seen all week, it’s officially ok to be geeky. A new list of the UK’s most coolest brands has been released and the top 10 contains SEVEN firms related to gadgets, gaming and the internet. So if that’s not a reason to embrace your virtual friends and give thanks I don’t know what is.
The iPod was only pipped into second place in the CoolBrands 2007 by James Bond’s favourite car, the Aston Martin, and you could argue there’s something geeky about being a fan of that motor. No longer is it nerdy to be geeky – because both are different…
YouTube Video of the Day – First Love
Fancy getting your heart warmed by some tales of first love? Better still, these first loves are soundtracking a gorgeous animation by Julia Pott and just what you need to see out the afternoon.
Raging Prince out to get YouTube, eBay and The Pirate Bay!
Oh dear, let’s hope good old Prince doesn’t “pull a Metallica” and make the whole world hate him.
The musical legend, who makes most of his money selling music direct to fans online rather than through the traditional record label route, remember, is teaming up with web legal specialist …
YouTube Video of the Day – Tenori-On demo
Good lord. Musical instruments aren’t whut they used tah be! In my day we strained our ears to listen to the sounds of someone playing an egg slicer… now? Well, now we get amazing things like the Tenori-On. Click here for more info.
