Links Saturday
Lonely Natalie

Most my friends know I love Natalie Tran's CommunityChannel on YouTube. If you haven't seen it, she's this hilarious Australian-Asian chick.* Because there's going to be a huge difference between But recently she started making travel videos for Lonely Planet that I've been enjoying as well. Recently she visited Miami! OMG, she's in the US! If only she weren't on the East Coast...

* On a side note, I suppose most people would think it should be Asian-Australian, but I think it really ought to go in the order of the place you've spent most your life. There's a big difference, for instance, between an Asian person born and raised in America (like myself) to one who's just moved there. I don't think this means anyone's rights should be curtailed, just acknowledged that people's situations make them different. Keeping that in mind, Natalie is definitely Australian-Asian as she grew up in Australia and acquired Australian mannerisms and accents which now come more naturally to her than would her Asian heritage.

Links Saturday
Hank Games

Hank Green of the vlogbrothers has made a channel where he plays video games and makes ammusing comments to them. As amusing comments during game play are half of the reason I enjoy video games in the first place, I really enjoy this. Plus, I've always been interested in the Assassin's Creed series, and he's mostly played the newest one of those. Above is my favorite of his videos and here's the link to the channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/hankgames?blend=2&ob=1

Links Saturday

After seeing the excellent film The King's Speech, I was eager to hear the actual speech portrayed in the film given by King George VI. And through the magic of you tube, here it is!

Links Saturday
Shaytards: YouTube Channel Review

This vlog is from back in August but it's a fun one. I didn't start at the beginning; I think I started watching somewhere around here.

Here's a link to the Shaytard Vlogs Channel.

As mentioned in my book review yesterday, I like watching sweet, quirky families go about their lives. It's so hard to be a cute, loving family without being obnoxiously so. But I think the well known YouTuber, Shay Carl and his family accomplish this. I'll admit I started by watching his vlogs, not his actual comedy sketches. I can't remember how or why, but I'm glad I did. I still primarily watch the vlogs. Rather than inciting annoyance or jealousy that we're not all as happy a family as them, they balance it with constant humor. In a world where people basically sign in blood to be exploited and act as dysfunctional as possible, I feel Shay's family are possibly the best reality show ever--actual reality that makes you feel better about the world.

Links Saturday
Associations

I talked about Sirius, the dog star this week, cause I heard this song on Glee:

Links Saturday
Barbie is Watching You

Possibly the most disturbing Barbie I've seen thus far is the new Video Girl Barbie equipped with a hidden camera. Seriously, I can't make this stuff up:

http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-R4093-Barbie-Video-Girl/dp/B0037UR206/ref=pd_sim_t_5

Links Saturday
Tangled

I am so excited about this movie. I wish they'd just called it Rapunzel but, other than that, it looks like it has real potential. I've been waiting for it since I was 8 years old. There's a blog post I did in 2006 when I was drooling over the concept art. Okay, not drooling over the art exactly, which I wasn't sure about, but the concept was definitely making me drool. I hope the songs are good but even if they're just mediocre but the story is good, I'll still like it. It'd be hard for it to live up to my many years of expectation but I at least hope it's not bad. But, as far as I can tell from the trailer, it looks promising. It's even in 3D which I love. I'm a total sucker for 3D. But, I still expect a good story.

Links Saturday
Veronica Mars the Movie?

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/11/10/veronica-mars-movie-rob-thomas/

I'm on the fence about this because I loved the show but I'm not sure that'd translate well to film.

Links Saturday
Deer!

This article doesn't surprise me.

I was never afraid of deer before I went to Denison. Even now I'm not exactly afraid of all deer, but at Denison a stag and I had a moment out on central quad in the middle of the night. No one else was around. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at his huge rack of pointy antlers and imposing stature. He looked at my vulnerable and unprotected fleshy shell. And we had an understanding. I lived by his grace.

I feel bad for the deer in the article, though. Poor thing seems to have just gone crazy and they had to shoot it down.

Links Saturday
TELL ME YOU LOVE ME!

I found this great web series parody of The Legend of Zelda and there are about thirty episodes, all of which are hilarious, but the third one is, by far, my favorite. Knowing the Legend of Zelda series is a big plus, but even if you don't, you should be able to still appreciate a lot of the humor. Although, I do warn you, the humor is VERY adult. I don't think I have any particularly sensitive blog readers, but just in case, you've been warned.

Legend of Neil Channel
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Links Saturday
Galleria Fire

I don't usually like to highlight bad news, but this event has me very shaken, as I used to live right across the street from this mall and spent quite a lot of time there. I happened to be going to Roseville the day this happened. The smoke was gone by the time I got there, and from where I stood, the mall looked fine, if empty and surrounded by helicopters and disaster crews. But it was still hard not to think of the huge negative impact one person has had on the lives of so many people.

Many of you are probably thinking it's just a mall, but it's a lovely and enormous place that defines Roseville. More than that, it represents a huge part of the local economy. I'm grateful that no one was physically hurt, but it has displaced more than 2000 employees who can ill afford such a disaster.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2010/10/22/state-of-emergency-for-westfield.html

The comments on this article are horrible. I think the SWAT team, police, and firefighters did the most they could in a terrible situation. People who think that the backpack probably didn't have explosives are welcome to go retrieve it themselves! The police and firefighters are meant to protect and serve us. They already risk their lives in the course of their work. As huge a blow as this will be to the local community's economy, I would not have preferred anyone to die in order to save property.

http://cbs13.com/local/roseville.galleria.store.2.1974197.html

Saturday Links
Beastly Belle and Sassy Gay Friend

I love the Disney film Beauty and the Beast but that doesn't mean I can't still laugh at the flawed reasoning.



This one is my favorite. Props for To Kill a Mocking Bird reference!





For all those people screaming "not all gay people are like this," I know and I agree. This is plainly an over-exaggerated stereotype. But I very much enjoyed these videos because I hate tragic stories and I love anything that would turn them on their head like this.

Links Saturday
The Reason I Love YouTube

Sadly these illegal video clip mash ups are one of my favorite things on YouTube second only to my favorite YouTube shows. I love that the moment I thought of a Captain Kirk mash-up to the song womanizer, I knew there'd already be plenty on YouTube. The same goes for any other fun mash up I can think of or happen to spot. I think there's enough parody in them that it should fit under the parody copyright clause and the companies should just chalk it up as free advertisement.

The thing is that it annoys me that they're illegal because people do take a lot of work to create them. They're not just reposting something; these things take serious video editing skills. True some of them aren't as good as others but even the worst ones would be more work than I'd be willing to do, and the best ones are an art-form in my opinion.

Links Saturday
Take Our Jobs

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www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive

http://www.ufw.org/toj_play/TOJNEW_12_JAL.html

I love Stephen Colbert. When his interviewee first mentioned this website, I thought it was great. Now I decided to provide it to all of you, should you want to go for a career in migrant work.

Links Saturday
Lexical Gaps

I know I post a lot of vlogbrothers videos, but I don't post all of them, so it's not just a complete reposting of vlogbrothers stuff. Also, this video reminded me of this article which also talks about lexical gaps. My favorite one is the Japanese word at the end. We totally should have a word for that. But, like the vlogbrothers, I really think there should be a neutral word for someone who's not a virgin, and it says a lot about our society (and not good things) that we don't have one.

Links Saturday
Birthday Without The Birthdayee

It just cracks me up that John and Hank had to celebrate they're father's birthday by themselves because he couldn't show up. Unfortunate for their dad, but you have to love the irony.

Links Saturday
Space, The Final Frontier

So Hank's video here got me thinking about sentient alien life. Whether it's out there, whether it knows we're here, and if it knows we're here, why doesn't it say hi? Then I watched an old Star Trek episode about a sentient race that destroyed itself (one of the theories of what might inevitably happen to all intelligent life).

Then I saw the following videos that seem to indicate in their own hilarious ways that sentient alien life may not be that much different from our own.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.