If you’re vis­it­ing Open Cul­ture thanks to The New York Times arti­cle, and if you’re look­ing for audio down­loads for your next road trip, then please explore our Audio Col­lec­tion, which includes (among oth­er things) free audio books, free lan­guage lessons, free uni­ver­si­ty cours­es, and much more. You can down­load these audio files — all for free — to your mp3 play­er or com­put­er. Feel free to ask any ques­tions. And if you like this kind of con­tent, then be sure to vis­it us again at www.oculture.com. We make a point here of bring­ing you the best cul­tur­al media avail­able on the web (if I may humbly say so). Thanks for vis­it­ing.

You can fol­low us on Twit­ter at @openculture. Hope you’ll join us.

File this clip (now added to our YouTube Favorites) under Ran­dom. See you next week. 

via Alfred A. Knopf Twit­ter Feed (ours here)

Here’s what it looks like if you plant a cam­era in the same loca­tion for one year and snap pho­tos through­out the chang­ing sea­sons. Video is strik­ing but ran­dom. So we’re fil­ing it under “Ran­dom.”

Nope, this is not exact­ly anoth­er piece of vin­tage YouTube good­ness. From what I can piece togeth­er, Nokia is mar­ket­ing a Bruce Lee cell phone in Chi­na, and this is the com­mer­cial that’s back­ing their pro­mo­tion. Need­less to say, there are some dig­i­tal enhance­ments going on here. But it’s amus­ing nonethe­less.

No com­men­tary real­ly need­ed. Just watch. Filed under “Ran­dom” and added to our YouTube playlist.

Sub­scribe to our feed

What are some of the most annoy­ing phras­es in the Eng­lish lan­guage? In a new forth­com­ing book, A Damp Squid: The Eng­lish Lan­guage Laid Bare, Oxford researchers list the com­mon phras­es that we use incor­rect­ly or just all too exces­sive­ly. Here’s the list (and if you have your own dis­liked expres­sions, list them below in the com­ments).

1 — At the end of the day
2 — Fair­ly unique
3 — I per­son­al­ly
4 — At this moment in time
5 — With all due respect
6 — Absolute­ly
7 — It’s a night­mare
8 — Should­n’t of
9 — 24/7
10 — It’s not rock­et sci­ence

via The Tele­graph

Sub­scribe to our feed

This is half art/half ran­dom, or maybe it’s bet­ter to say half random/half art. Any­way, it calls to mind one of our pop­u­lar posts (Ele­phant Paint­ing) from months to go. So here it is, an ani­mat­ed short by Nico­las Deveaux.

Sub­scribe to Our Feed