Weezer Mashes Up the Most Popular Viral Videos with “Pork and Beans”

Watching Weezer’s new video “Pork and Beans”. It’s like viral video’s greatest hits. This blog on Technipedia lists a who’s who of the viral video world in the video.

“Included in this video is Tay Zonday of Chocolate Rain fame, the Blendtec’s famous “Will it Blend” blender (can you spot it?), Miss Teen South Carolina, the kid behind the famous Romanian Numa Numa video, All Your Base are Belong to Us, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, the “stupid” ninja guy, and a guy who made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for wearing the most t-shirts at any time, among many other internet celebrities.”

I even spotted the OMG SHOE’S guy and it was laced with some Chris Crocker.

Weezer’s new Self-Titled “Red Album” out June 3rd, 2008 which happens to be my birthday. What are your thoughts on the video?  Some say awesome, some say they are not original.

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Bill O’Reilly Flips Out. Doing it live. F*ck it.

I was just waiting for him to say like ” YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!11!!1″.

UPDATE: Check out the College Humor mashup!!!!

This has also sparked a dance remix, meltdown compilation, and parody by Steven Colbert (NSFW).

Filed under: Uncategorized, Doing it Live, F*ck it, LOL, WTF

Earthquake hits China. Twitter reports first.

Image via Wikipedia

Twitter seems to be the first site that has news of the 6 to 7.5 magnitude earthquake that hit China this morning.  Another example of how the power of microblogging can socially compute information and news faster than the media can. I was just about to go to sleep when I checked my twitter page one last time.  I had a double take when I see that @scobleizer tweeted about followers of his tweeting about a 7.8m earthquake near Chengdu,  China a city of 11 million. Thanks to Robert Scoble for helping a lot of people stay tuned into to what is going on in China.

It is amazing to see Twitter at work. In minutes we can all start monitoring all the chatter around the story on www.tweetscan.com, www.friendfeed.com,  www.quotably.com and www.summize.com.

“greggscott peterschloss: “Watched everything sway outside my windows. Hanging lights swayed for a good while. Several buildings downtown BJ emptied out”

another tweet:

“frankyu: i twittered as the building swayed…screw running out the door, MUST TWEET !”

and this tweet has video from Beijing:

“jjprojects: Earthquake vid: in Beijing, 950 miles away http://tinyurl.com/5vjtmu“

None of this is even airing on CNN or any news network that I can find. So far I have seen it on New York Times, the BBC and Hindu.com.

@greggscott has even found the first photo that I have seen.

I hope everyone in China is safe and there aren’t too many casualties.

With that, a goodnight.

Update: Reports of over 9,000 dead so far.

Lots of people on the internet are raising money in support of the recent tragedies. Please visit a charity of your choice and make a donation or visit Jeremiah Owyang’s blog to see how you can use the power of your influence on the internet as well as a list of places you can visit to donate.

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Filed under: Uncategorized, Asia, Beijing, Chengdu, China, CNN, Earthquake, Earthquakes, The New York Times, Twitter