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≡ Category: Comedy, Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra, an hour-long musical special “conducted” by one of the UK’s most popular performers, is also one of the funniest hours of television you can watch with kids in the room. The wildly inventive comedian (see his bio here) weaves in jokes, music history and orchestral rearrangements of everything from [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Just a quick note: We took our Free Movie collection and neatly placed the films into categories this weekend, making the big collection a little easier to navigate. If you’re looking for free movies, we have 340 films listed in the following categories. Comedy & Drama Film Noir, Horror, Thriller & Hitchcock Westerns & John [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Education, Film | ≅ 11 Comments
Jon Stewart put it nicely. Now filmmaker Michael Moore takes the gloves off. Visiting Madison, Wisconsin this Saturday, he told the crowd “America isn’t broke.” Rather, the money that used to run the country simply got siphoned out of the system and put into unproductive Wall Street accounts. Strong words, but if you consider that [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 7 Comments
Jon Stewart had to do it. He had to connect the dots. We’re going after the public servants trying to do some good. But how about the non-contributing bankers who kept their personal gravy train rolling at taxpayer expense? Or the hedge fund managers who pay dramatically lower taxes than almost anyone reading this site? [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, English Language | ≅ Leave a Comment
Today is National Grammar Day, and maybe it’s a stretch to lump spelling under grammar, but it’s casual Friday here on OC. So we leave you with this. Have a great weekend..
≡ Category: History, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
On the day of the historic “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” (August 28, 1963), known today as The Great March on Washington (watch it on YouTube in three parts), CBS aired a 30-minute roundtable discussion featuring James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Charlton Heston, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sidney Poitier. The whole segment is fascinating, even and perhaps especially because the [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
Kim Jong-Il, North Korea’s leader, is revered as a genius of cinema by his own people. Or so the North Korean propagandists would have you believe. In this fascinating video from Al Jazeera, we follow two reporters (Lynn Lee and James Leong) as they gain unprecedented access to Pyongyang’s University of Cinematic and Dramatic Arts, [...]
≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick heads up: The March 7 edition of The New Yorker magazine features a previously unpublished story by David Foster Wallace, the celebrated American author who committed suicide back in 2008. The story, “Backbone,” begins: Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy’s goal was to be able to press [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 1 Comment
Shawn Carter – the MC, entrepreneur, and recent best-selling author who is known to everyone but his mother as Jay-Z  – proved with the 2010 publication of his memoir Decoded that he is not only one of hip-hop’s top artists, but also one of its top interpreters. In Decoded, Jay-Z offers little in the way of new [...]
≡ Category: Science, Technology, Video - Arts & Culture | ≅ 5 Comments
Have you ever wondered what the WiFi signal looks like around your office, school, or local café? In this video, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen, and Einar Sneve Martinussen show you the invisible. And they pulled this off by building a WiFi measuring rod, measuring four meters in length, that can visualize WiFi signals around Oslo, Norway with the [...]
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