Week 1046 - YouTube Showcase Edition

Isn't YouTube wonderful? Ever since its inception on Valentine's Day, 2005, loads of content has been uploaded to this household-name video sharing site. There's the people doing amazing things, people hurting themselves doing amazing things, kids and animals doing amazingly cute things, and people commenting on people hurting themselves doing amazing things and kids and animals doing amazingly cute things. Did you follow that? It's basically an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. Well there's also TV Shows, film trailers, advertisements from around the world... just think of anything you could watch and it's probably on there. What I'm trying to say is that in the wealth of endless entertainment it's getting harder to find the odd video that isn't shoved in your face - that is, most videos people watch are the stuff that gets reported in the news for getting X million hits, like Justin Bieber's Baby, or Rebecca Black's Friday, or PSY's Gangnam Style...
So as a recurring item in this blog I've been showing a few videos that aren't as popular (probably to spark some interest and get some credibility as a YouTube video recommender), but now there's a bit of a backlog to catch up on, so here's a post to clear the list. And for those that don't just want videos, I've still got bits of written stuff about things in here too. Hope you enjoy.

In this edition - British Entertainment, American Entertainment, Popularity, Japanese Entertainment, and life as a musical.

Week 1045 - Two Decades Down

For those astute ones out there, you may have realised that it's been two weeks instead of the usual one since the last post. That happens here sometimes. Hence why the top of the site says "Updated Thursday or whenever". Also, I kinda just forgot to finish the post on time. But here's what I would have wrote about last week:

So I don't know if anyone realised, but the Olympics were over the last two weeks. Thought I'd just give a quick passing mention in case someone didn't notice...

Oh, also my birthday.

In this week's edition: "Who won all of the Olympics?", A second set of ten years - a brief retrospective, and What I'm Listening to.

Week 1043 - Better than Facebook?

"Blasphemy!" I hear you shout. "Do not judge the almighty book of face! I bequeath thee... and thou shalt hath were'est shan middly middly moo moo..."

Umm so anyway... what's the deal with social media nowadays? Join me as I take as little of a journalistic approach as possible and investigate. I have no budget and one blog post... this'll be interesting.

This week: Other social media you may (or definitely) don't know about, learning a language for free, and music videos you probably can't take seriously.

Week 1042 - Not drunk and not disorderly

It's amazing, the things you can come up with when joking around with friends. As I've mentioned to quite a few people, I tend to come up with interesting ideas, though most of the time they're not entirely practical.

So anyway... Over the last weekend a few of us got away from the hubbub of what turned out to be quite a rowdy night for the Residential Advisors here, and took a non-school-work Saturday away and booked a hotel room in town.

*insert unessential sniggering from some residents*

This week: University students stick out like a sore thumb at Himatangi Beach, An impractical way to tell if someone's drunk, ukuleles, and Glee: Illinois Edition.