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Painting with Permission - Graffiti Documentary

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:03:32 -0700

(12 votes - 5 comments - 684 views)

Foo Fighters - 'The Pretender'

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:09:37 -0700

(19 votes - 7 comments - 973 views)
"The Pretender" is the first single off of the Foo Fighters 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. The full single leaked onto the Internet on Thursday, August 2, 2007 after being played in a world exclusive on KROQ. It was first available for purchase on the iTunes music store on August 8, 2007. The single was released on August 7, 2007 to radio. MTV and MTV2 premiered the music video on Monday, August 20 in the US and it will premiere on Thursday in the UK. The station began showing a teaser for their video in commercials throughout the week before. A 24 second preview of the clip was officially made available on YouTube on Wednesday August 15, 2007. The Song entered the UK Singles Chart on the August 19, 2007 at number 28.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:41:09 -0700

(18 votes - 5 comments - 769 views)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a comedy series made for Channel 4. Created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, it is a parody of the horror genre and revolves around the character of Garth Marenghi himself, a writer of pulp fiction played by Matthew Holness.

http://www.garthmarenghi.com/darkplace/default.htm

Thing's Peter Griffin would like to say to America

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:03:53 -0700

(18 votes - 0 comments - 1715 views)
Peter Griffin gives the top 10 on David Letterman

A Bit of Fry and Laurie - "Mystery" song

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:23:32 -0700

(26 votes - 2 comments - 1063 views)
Laurie is an accomplished musician and this talent was often featured on the show in the form of plot points in a sketch and satirical songs. The first such song, 'Mystery', parodies a mournful love song from a lounge singer and presents the obstacles to a relationship between the singer and the object of affection, which become more outlandish every verse: he/she lives in a different country, would probably have a problem with the singer's job ("with the Thames Water Authority"), has never actually met the singer, and has been dead since 1973 ("fifteen years come next January"). This segment of the show quickly became one of its most popular. Laurie still plays these songs when appearing as a guest star, such as on Saturday Night Live and Inside the Actor's Studio.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie was a British television series starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast by the BBC between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series, and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987. Despite its popularity at the time, the show has rarely been repeated on terrestrial television. Both Fry and Laurie have expressed great interest in working together again, but this has not yet taken place, due to both men's busy schedules.

Inventor of the World Wide Web talks about its Future

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:00:42 -0700

(24 votes - 8 comments - 287 views)
The semantic web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily. It derives from W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.

At its core, the semantic web comprises a philosophy, a set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and a variety of enabling technologies. Some elements of the semantic web are expressed as prospective future possibilities that have yet to be implemented or realized. Other elements of the semantic web are expressed in formal specifications. Some of these include Resource Description Framework (RDF), a variety of data interchange formats (e.g. RDF/XML, N3, Turtle, N-Triples), and notations such as RDF Schema (RDFS) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), all of which are intended to provide a formal description of concepts, terms, and relationships within a given knowledge domain.

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

Huey Lewis and the News - 'The Power of Love'

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:50:16 -0700

(28 votes - 2 comments - 809 views)
The classic 1985 music video for the hit song from the Back To The Future trilogy. Featuring Christopher Lloyd.

"The Power of Love" is the title of a 1985 single by Huey Lewis & the News written for and featured in the film Back to the Future. It gave the band their first number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and later appeared on UK editions of the band's fourth studio album, Fore!. The song was nominated for an Academy Award at the 58th Academy Awards.

The song appears early in Back to the Future as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) skates to school, then when he and his band played the song for a Battle of the Bands auditions, and later when Marty returns to his neighborhood. In the sequel, Back to the Future Part II, the 2015 version of Marty barely plays the song on his guitar just after being fired. Finally, it can be briefly heard playing on a car radio near the end of Back to the Future Part III.

The Music Video, featured in the bonus features of the Back to the Future Part II disc, shows the band playing in a nightclub, with Christopher Lloyd showing up in the DeLorean, apparently after time-travelling, and a couple stealing it for a joy ride.

Tour of the LHC at Cern

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:32:19 -0700

(29 votes - 1 comment - 687 views)
A video giving a tour of the LHC (underground accelerator) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. It sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

CERN is a laboratory where scientists unite to study the building blocks of matter and the forces that hold them together. CERN exists primarily to provide them with the necessary tools. These are accelerators, which accelerate particles to almost the speed of light and detectors to make the particles visible.

Founded in 1954, the laboratory was one of Europe's first joint ventures and includes now 20 Member States.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. Due to switch on in 2007, it will ultimately collide beams of protons at an energy of 14 TeV . Beams of lead nuclei will be also accelerated, smashing together with a collision energy of 1150 TeV. Measuring 27km in circumference, it will become the world's largest particle accelerator when it inaugurates in November 2007.

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

Lolita - Trailer

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:21:57 -0700

(21 votes - 8 comments - 1459 views)
Lolita is an influential 1962 film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze (Lolita) and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze.

Due to the MPAA's restrictions at the time, the film toned down the more perverse aspects of the novel, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. The actress who played Lolita, Sue Lyon, was fourteen at the time of filming. Kubrick later commented that, had he realized how severe the censorship limitations were going to be, he probably never would have made the film.

Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel was first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1967 in New York. The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.

After its publication, the novel attained a classic status, becoming one of the best known and most controversial examples of 20th century literature. The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious young girl.

The novel has been adapted to film twice, once in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick starring James Mason as Humbert Humbert, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons.

High Fidelity Top 5 Songs To Make Love To

michie (http://michie.videosift.com) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:43:39 -0700

(21 votes - 0 comments - 1141 views)
High Fidelity is a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Tim Robbins, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Joelle Carter, and Lili Taylor. It is based on the 1995 English novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with John Cusack's performance as Rob Gordon. Hornby said he wanted the actor to play the leads in every film adaptation of his books.

High Fidelity is a 1995 British novel by Nick Hornby. It was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. It also served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name.

Most memorable split-ups (chronological order)

1. Alison Ashworth

2. Penny Hardwick

3. Jackie Allen

4. Charlie Nicholson

5. Sarah Kendrew