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Fox News Subliminal Opening

Are you trolling?

The partially transparent fox news graphic was obviously in the foreground, not the background. The graphic peels away to reveal the entire background video, except for the fox logo in the middle. So yes, McCain's face wasn't quite in the direct middle of the frame so it wasn't occluded. (when the cut is made, the overlay has only peeled away from the right half of the video, but it's on its way out).

The images of John and Cindy McCain were not unrelated, they were standing next to each other on stage in that footage.

The weird thing is not the fancy, peel-away intro graphic before a McCain story, but why there's a quick cut to the anchors instead of continuing that story. My guess is, once again, that they just recycled footage from earlier/later in the broadcast. Or this clip is just a mash up between two unrelated segments.

written by rychan | 3 days 15 hours 37 minutes ago | CH

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Fox News Subliminal Opening

>> ^honkeytonk73:
LOL... they 'crossed feeds'. WTF does that -mean-? Please explain further.

I don't know who you're addressing, since nobody in this discussion except you has used the term 'crossed feeds' even though you've quoted it.

The intro graphic is a transparent overlay. Maybe they didn't realize they were feeding one of that night's stories into the background channel. Maybe they did and didn't care because nobody would notice it.

Did that clip of John and Cindy appear as one of their news stories that night?

If this were Obama's face on a CBS affiliate, would you be as certain that it was an intentional conspiracy to help elect Obama?

written by rychan | 4 days 12 hours 48 minutes ago | CH

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Tornado - Manchester F4 Wedge - Brown Pants Award

Wow, that's nearly a Darwin award.

written by rychan | 4 days 17 hours 36 minutes ago | CH

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Man does Donuts with '69 Mustang; Hits Self with Shovel.

Few people have as much self-awareness as he does.

written by rychan | 4 days 17 hours 56 minutes ago | CH

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Fox News Subliminal Opening

Christ I didn't think videosift was so tin-foil-hatty. So they overlaid their intro on one of their news stories? Maybe they do this every night? Maybe they got one of their feeds messed up. Who knows what the production crews was up to, but I doubt it was any McCain conspiracy.

written by rychan | 4 days 17 hours 58 minutes ago | CH

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Making iced tea the creepy way

don't think that's it. The other colors seem normal, and the red apples, and red chili peppers come out just fine.

Whoops, I quoted you.

Even then, it could still be the camera. I was playing with a camera once and it made my crimson shirt look light blue, but a coke can beside me was still perfectly reproduced as the right shade of red.

written by rychan | 6 days 22 hours 38 minutes ago | CH

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TYT Exclusive-Terrible Clip From Clinton's Int. w/ O'Reilly

I don't like TYT's style most of the time. But I think he's got a strong argument here. And his over the top style seems reasonable here.

written by rychan | 1 week ago | CH

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Guys do stunts and flips into their pants...

>> ^doogle:
What about their shoes?

I'd like to see the blooper reel from before they perfected the pants-then-shoes ordering of dressing.

written by rychan | 1 week 2 days ago | CH

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Animated Illusion

It's very nice. I wouldn't call it an illusion, though. Our visual system is doing exactly what you would expect it to do. The figures we're seeing are actually being rendered by the grate. It's a clever animation system, not an illusion.

written by rychan | 1 week 2 days ago | CH

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The Matrix Guy

Yeah exactly dag. I mean, this is very well made, but I came away thinking "damn, the Matrix really was one of the best movies ever made"

You forget that after watching the 2nd and 3rd movies

written by rychan | 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Sports versus Star Wars Nerds

>> ^mundanest:
Rugby is far more popular than basketball. Worldwide at least, not in the US.

I would guess that basketball is more popular. Especially if the metric is the number of amateur players. If it's the number of professional players, then I bet basketball still wins. Basketball is fairly popular in Europe.

written by rychan | 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Malaysia Landslide

Very cool sift. I'd love more info.

written by rychan | 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Unreal Engine 3, Real-time Lighting - Mortal Online Trailer

It's nice to see more MMORPG competition for warcraft, although this isn't really the direction I'm interested in. I'm more interested in persistent world building and less interested in PvP.

The lighting and art is nice, but I don't think it's technologically any better than Doom3.

written by rychan | 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Do boomerangs work in space?

>> ^twiddles:
Anyone that thought that a boomarang couldn't work in a pressurized atmosphere and the absence of gravity does not deserve to be an astronaut.

Oh get over yourself. It's not at all obvious that a traditional boomerang should work in zero gravity as they have flight movements with respect to the gravity vector. See the diagram at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang

As typically thrown, the traditional boomerang relies on the presence of gravity to convert kinetic energy into potential energy (as it reaches the top of its arc), then back to kinetic energy in the opposite direction.

So maybe you can throw it differently and still have it return, but maybe not. It's NOT obvious, though. Your attitude stinks.

written by rychan | 2 weeks ago | CH

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Crash Test

Awesome Tymbrwulf. I remember spotting that scream in lots of places after playing Starcraft and then being disappointed that it wasn't the Willhelm Scream.

Also this short movie is stupidly good for a film school project.

Also I walk by this place on the way to school in Paris, it turns out.

written by rychan | 2 weeks 6 days ago | CH

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