Google Breaks the Emu Speech Barrier
Just in time for April Fools, Google’s Andriod phone unveils its Animal Speech Translation App.
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Weird Japanese Face Animator (Emu POTW)
This Japanese site will take any portrait-like picture that you upload and automatically convert it into a blinking, nodding, quasi-zombie animated template ready to model various animal heads, wigs, and facial hair.
It’s easily good for 45 minutes of time wasting. Fun, fun.
Link via BuzzFeed.
The Making of the Shining (Emu POTW)
A hidden treasure on Google Video makes available a 35 minute short shot by Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian, during the filming of The Shining. The piece gives us a sense of the process of one of the most legendary filmmakers of all time.
Link via /film
Marc Maron – Grizzled Comedy Veteran (Emu -POTW)
Discovered a treat on Vimeo last night. It’s a full 70-minute stand up routine of Carlin and Hicks disciple, Marc Maron.
This routine, filmed a couple weeks ago at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater, will give you a good sense of Maron’s plodding, dark, self-loathing, intellectual style. He seems equally depressed as the Patron Saint Bill Hicks would be having to face a media world as over commercialized and sold out as ours is.
Emu POTW: MIT’s Internet Persona Calculator
One of my new favorite toys is this online tool that allows you to indulge your wildest internet egocentricities. The tool seeks out your each and every Google-worthy act and unceremoniously dumps it into one of many pre-determined category bins, forever branding the nature of your service to the human race.
It’s so uncompromising and final… This pleases me.
Emu POTW: Second Skin
Back in the days of yore, we at the BBtv team covered the upcoming release of a documentary about MMORPGers called Second Skin.
Today, the entire film can be found on Hulu. So ready your supply of Doctor Pepper and Mountain Dew, jump into a nearby Teamspeak channel, and enjoy:
Emu POTW: Taibbi’s Goldman Rant
For those of you who haven’t read Matt Taibbi’s scathing Rolling Stone commentary on Goldman Sachs, entitled, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” it’s well worth a look. In it, he refers to the banking behemoth as a “Great Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity.”