Category: Pop Culture

Popular culture, culture that seems to spread beyond more than three people

  • Homemade Angry Birds game

    A mother made a homemade variation of Angry Birds with the birds made out of various household items. Angry Birds Live, she calls it.

    I used a tennis ball for the red bird, a ping-pong ball for the blue bird, modeling clay for the yellow bird, an Easter egg for the chicken, and a black dodge ball for the bomb bird. I had an old set of cardboard blocks that they never really used, and they were perfect. I printed out pictures of the pigs on labels and stuck them on paper bags.

  • Brett Favre is like the Internet

    In a great example of divergent thinking, Kottke collects a series of tweets by Tim Carmody comparing Brett Favre’s career to that of the Internet.

    In 1995, Favre wins the MVP, the Packers get to the NFC Championships, and Windows 95 brings the internet & graphic interface to the masses.

  • Devour

    You Tube’s recommended videos a little, meh?  Tosh.0’s videos too random or mean-spirited?

    Devour is the site to cure your web video ills.  Clean design that focuses on the videos.  Good videos.  Every now and then one will be no longer available.  So, have a night with the friends and watch awesome You Tube videos.

  • Coordinated camera flashes at a concert

    At concerts, the pop of a camera flash is constant. You see it on TV at the Super Bowl or some other event. At a Robbie Williams concert, for a Nikon ad, he called upon the crowd to raise their cameras and take a picture. The result: