Iranian hip-hop… surprisingly awesome

Posted on reddit this morning, apparently rap is becoming huge in Iran and these guys are at the forefront. Expect to hear this in the next GTA / Need for Speed game. Better than 99% of the crap being churned out in the States. Enjoy:

Amazing remix of Radiohead’s ‘Nude’

James Houston recreates Radiohead’s ‘Nude’ from their awesome album In Rainbows using a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an oscillioscope, a dot matrix printer, a scanner and a speaker made out of freakin’ hard drives. It’s just… amazing. Cheers for the link, Seb
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Dublin’s 98FM Ad will melt your face like an evil nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

This looks like it was created with a copy of Powerpoint ‘97 and a (poorly spent) budget of 70 Euro. I really hope they’re not going to run this on TV. This is brand suicide. Set your faces to stun:

Via Creative Ireland forums…

Werner Herzog eats his shoe

“Directed by Les Blank, this is a film exactly described by its title. German film director Herzog had made a bet with fledgling director Errol Morris that, if Morris made a film, Herzog would eat his shoe. Morris went on to film ‘Gates of Heaven’, so Herzog kept his promise. While eating the boiled shoe, [...]

Ryanair to offer ‘beds and blowjobs’

Not sure if this is some kind of a joke or just a really poor metaphor, but apparently Ryanair’s new transatlantic service will offer “beds and blowjobs”. That Michael O’Leary is just *so* outrageous, isn’t he?
According to the Indo article:
“We confirmed at the press conference yesterday that the proposed Transatlantic Service will have a [...]

Kent “Toast” French, The World’s Fastest Clapper

This is really cool, it’s like his hands aren’t connected to his body.

Javascript Wolfenstein, also awesome interactive periodic table

Two snippets of web lovely for you…
Interactive periodic table:

http://www.touchspin.com/chem/SWFs/pt2k61012.swf
also Wolfenstein… in Javascript. My mind, she is blown.

Star Wars dance-off

Watch from the start or fast-forward to 3:08 for the real meat. Instant web classic.

Andy Gill: ‘Why I hate Coldplay’

Pompous, mawkish, and unbearably smug, Coldplay have conquered the charts with the sonic equivalent of wilted spinach, argues Andy Gill. And in the process, they’ve poisoned an entire generation of British rock music
Thank you, Andy.

Naked Gun intro done in GTA4

Via Games Radar, brilliantly done video of the Police Squad/Naked Gun style intos using the GTA4 engine: