August 11, 2007

• just some interesting video clips

  Most of these videos are probably pretty well known by now, by youtube fanatics, but since I just discovered  most of them, I figured I’d share them.

  When I read this speech I thought it was one of the best I’ve ever read, now that I’ve heard it I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever heard. Here’s the full speech:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

  So after watching that I was looking for other good commencement speeches. There should be a site that links to all of them and keeps them all archived in text, audio, and video form, but alas I could not find such a thing.

  Here is the third part of Colbert’s commencement speech which is pretty funny:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=lfWccASi6PM

  I don’t know where the other two parts are and why they are not on youtube.

  Here’s all four parts of a neat one by Seth MacFarlane.
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=gc-yl_8ywiU
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=U9QXyuUqKCs
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=gLt73xSJlAM
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=W_q_z1_d0mE

  Seth MacFarlane is the producer of Family Guy, which is a show that can be pretty much summed up by this clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=h1QTlUq3ClU
  
  Anyway, those speeches are funny but not particularly inspiring. Anyone know of any other good inspiring speeches out there?

  Here’s another interesting video on the nature of the internet that I thought was very well done:
  http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/web_20__the_machine_is_using_us?id=6gmP4nk0EOE
  
  This is a mean one making fun of Sony and the PS3 which I quite enjoyed: 
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=R98qC0fd_1w

  And speaking of mean videos that make fun of famous companies and their products, Microsoft is always a good target.

  This one shows that the Beryl Window Manager is more graphically impressive than Vista:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

  Honestly, most of the features showcased in the video for both systems seem largely pointless to me, but that’s just my opinion.

  This one makes fun of the degree to which Vista copies OS X:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM

  And this one is another Microsoft Speech Recognition example.  http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/microsoft_vista_speech_recognition_tested__perl_scripting?id=KyLqUf4cdwc
  
  I think these speech recognition videos are pretty funny but I really want this technology to work and in a lot of ways it looks rather impressive to me. I’m tired of using my mouse and keyboard anyway. But even so I probably won’t use it for perl scripting.

  And just because I was bored, here’s a classic I hadn’t seen in a long time:
  http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/all_your_base_are_belong_to_us?id=qItugh-fFgg

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