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Best video featuring the scene in Office Space where one of The Bobs says “What would you say you do here?” I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:43:32 +0000

Are The Bobs available for newsroom consulting?

Is Flickr onto something with the “long photo?”

William M. Hartnett — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:36:44 +0000

Pfft, like I know. But four days ago I uploaded a 90-second clip of our cat Pokeweed sitting upright to both Flickr and YouTube. Not a whole lot going on there, just a strange clip of our strange cat behaving a little strangely. The YouTube version has been viewed 28 times. The Flickr version has been viewed 1,057 times, has been marked a favorite by 44 people and has attracted 20 comments. (And the embedded version looks great when the control bar disappears, nothing but the image.)

Maybe Flickr is just a particularly cat-friendly environment. Flickr users really do seem to like their cats, after all. Could just be that video is still a novelty there. Or maybe there really is something interesting to Flickr’s concept of less-than-90-second videos as “a long photo.”

No great revelations, just an observation. And an excuse, as if I needed one, to post yet another picture of my cat.

Random picture of my cat, Vol. 62: Special moving-picture edition!

William M. Hartnett — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Here’s a very special moving-picture Flickr video edition of random picture of my cat. Ninety seconds of Pokeweed sitting upright and staring, with a few glimpses of the camera-shy Belle. Pokeweed! Moving! Belle too! Cats! Video! Geekery! Huzzah!

So I’ve been thinking about organizing a Guitar Hero tournament at work …

William M. Hartnett — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:28:58 +0000

… to coincide with the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I’d make brackets and everything. Gambling encouraged. But it seems like it might turn out to be a lot of work, which is sort of exactly what I’d be trying to help everyone avoid. And the real trick is how to convince people they would look like this …

… when they of course would actually look pretty much exactly like this …

Maybe we should just have ice cream cake.

Best video about the history of lolcats I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:15:26 +0000

And possibly just the best video ever, period.

Best video of all 51 of Tim Tebow’s touchdowns I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:09:55 +0000

This guy is pretty good. He should win awards.
(Via Inside UF via HeismanPundit.com)

Best video imagining the seventh season of ‘24′ as written by lolcats I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:02:43 +0000

Via Cheezburger comes this amazing piece of indescribable awesomeness. As one YouTube commenter pointed out, it looks better than season six.

Calling all junk: Neighborhood ninjas, Florida weirdness, my close friend Carl Kasell, Backstreet cockatoo

William M. Hartnett — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:58:15 +0000

A thousand apologies, Hartnett readers, for being blog-lazy (blazy?) lately. I’ll write something substantive some day soon. Or not. In the meantime, just a few odds and ends I wanted to get on the record.

I can’t get enough of this story from today’s Palm Beach Post: Ninja-like force protects exclusive Gardens enclave. The people who live in this ninja-protected Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood are a bit ridiculous (Seriously, wake-up calls and hanging picture frames?), but the glimpse of life on the raw, dirty streets of north Palm Beach County is excellent.
Nice tale of Florida weirdness from The Miami Herald: Wife’s lottery secret costs years of grief.
And another: Dead man was in avocado tree for days.
What prompted me to finally sign up for Facebook after so many months of complete indifference? I read in Sunday’s New York Times that Carl Kasell had 1,602 Facebook friends and wanted to see his profile. (He’s up to 2,371 now.) This is almost as embarrassing as the time I learned about boxes, bubbles and donks in The New York Times Magazine.
Here is a video of a cockatoo dancing to a song by the Backstreet Boys, possibly the best video of a cockatoo dancing to a song by the Backstreet Boys I’ve ever posted. That is all.

Best video of a record-breaking downhill bike speed run I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:00:22 +0000

I barely topped 30 mph once on my road bike while descending the Roosevelt Bridge in Stuart and nearly had a little wee in my pants from fear. Presumably, Markus Stoeckl was feeling more confident when he hit 130.7 mph.

Best video of an angry dance I’ve ever posted

William M. Hartnett — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:32:53 +0000

But only because I don’t have any video my own angry dance, which is just a lot more lyrical than this.