Chaf's Digital Brain

Friday, September 29, 2006

Neave.tv is a strange video site

This is an interesting website with some messed up videos...they are eerie, but fantastical at the same time.

http://www.neave.tv/#public_brand_study


http://www.neave.tv/

See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds

Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

episodes of: The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad

Wow, every episode from every season

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Monday, September 25, 2006

(TheBlueState.com) Bill Clinton on Fox News Sunday - Part 1

Clinton rips Fox News a new one!

(TheBlueState.com) Bill Clinton on Fox News Sunday - Part 2

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Down With The Butterfly Raid Fredericton With Professional Day



Professional Day With Down With The Butterfly was a success!
The gentleman showed up dressed as their favorite profession.
I was dressed as a robot, well, half assed dressed. The guys put on
an awesome show as always!

My friend Josh had an opportunity to interview the boys in the sketchy
dungeon of the Capital:



The boys returned from playing at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto.
They drove over 16 hours with NO sleep to play here in Fredericton,
what a bunch of troopers!

They stuck around for a bit after the
show, then headed back to Halifax right after so that they could
rest up for their post Rolling Stones concert show at Stage 9.
Here are a couple of super amature vids that my friend Josh and
I shot at The Capital.






For more info on Down With The Butterfly :

www.downwiththebutterfly.com/
www.myspace.com/downwiththebutterfly
Booking: booking.downwiththebutterfly(at)gmail.com


Buy their CD

Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Simpsons seaons 1-18

Every season of the simpsons streaming.

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Best Next Gen Graphics on any platform - Check the video for yourself

This looks like an amazing game!

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Hugo Chavez Calls Bush the Devil

Wii Calculator

This Calculator will show you exactly how much you be spending on November 19th. Now at least I know exactly how much money I need to save in two months.

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Warner to license music in YouTube videos

YouTube and Warner Music Group Corp. will announce a deal Monday that will put thousands of Warner music videos on the video sharing site and allow user created videos to legally use Warner owned music, according to a story tonight from the Associated Press.

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YouTube Responds to Renetto... BREAKING NEWS!

Renetto talks about Warner Music Group becoming partners with youtube. Users of youtube will be encouraged to upload Warner content by the end of the year.

Large Collection of Nintendo MP3s

Castlevania, Double Dragon, Excitebike, Kid Icarus, Mega Man, Metroid, RC Pro Am, Super Mario, Tetris, TMNT, Zelda, and many more. Use them as ring tones, make fan vids, mix them into music, or just enjoy the 8-bit memories.

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Sen. Ted Kennedy supports Net Neutrality

This is amazing. Senetor Ted Kennedy uses youtube to get his political messages out to the world. It is amazing how he is showing the world that he supports net neutrality by uploading a video clip to youtube discussing it!

9 months of gestation in 20 seconds - New Version!

AWesome!

Clinton on the Daily Show

Hmmmmm...Clinton hints that Hillary is thinking about running for President...

Beatboxing Parrot!

Hilarious!

The Matrix - Muppet Version

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Congress Says "F you" to Net Neutrality

Takeaway: The Senate Commerce Committee ran a pro-big-media marketing campaign disguised as a "bipartisan poll." The message is obvious: the committee is in bed with telcos and Net Neutrality is dead.

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Monday, September 18, 2006

A Day's Grace

Another film in the bag...well technically my first film in the bag even though this is my second shoot! Lots of hard work was invested into this film by many awesome volunteers from the NB Film Co-Op plus a few non-members (which is ok). I am going to focus my free time into my own projects that I will be working on with some friends from the NB Film Co-Op. I am also working with some really awesome gentleman who are creating a unique website which hopefully will allow local artists to post their work. I can't wait to get this going!

Please check out some of my links:


Youtube: www.youtube.com/profile?user=chafichaddad
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/chaf/
del.icio.us bookmarks: del.icio.us/chaf

The White Stripes appear on the Simpsons

The White Stripes' appearance on The Simpsons has landed on YouTube. Go here to watch it.

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Nintendo Wii Coming to US NOV. 19th !

Live feed from Nintendo press release in NYC. Confirms $249 price tag, packaging, included features, launch numbers.

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Saturday, September 16, 2006

The Role Of Tags In Social Bookmarking

Tags have become a staple of web 2.0 sites, and especially social bookmarking sites, as they allow a user to sift through large amounts of information and locate exactly what the user is looking for, very efficiently. Here's a look at how to use tags, and the advantages of tags over the more traditional, predefined categories.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Where the Hell is Matt?

I would love to do this when i start travelling.

Girl Archer

WOW

What we are

This is a great video about Human beings.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

11 things you are guaranteed not to know about internet history

Did you know where google got it's start on ad distributions? Do you remember how $300.00 turned AOL into the mega giant it is today? 11 things you are almost guaranteed not to know about internet history and they are all true.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Dane Cook's Hey YouTube!

WOW, Dane Cook challenges Youtubers for funny office pranks...i'm sooooooooooo up for it.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

What the earth would look like if there were only 100 people

A short flash animation that shows what our world really looks like.

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Light-emitting shirts!

Check out this cool new technology Philips. It's amazing! They are integrating LEDs into fabric and had some jackets and a couch there. Really cool!



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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Shiny Toy Guns - The Charming Chad Petree




I was fortunate enough to witness a jaw dropping exhibit of amazing talent at The Capital this weekend. Shiny Toy Guns ( http://www.myspace.com/shinytoyguns ) a band from Oakland, California has been on tour all over North America for the past year or so. The band has quite a large fan base in the US and i'm sure many in Canada as well. I met Chad outside The Capital Bar on Saturday nite. He was training his voice preping for the show pacing back and fourth as i approached. I said "hello, are you in the band?" He said "yes i am" in a friendly greeting. I spoke with him for a few minutes and then he said, "hey, that's a cool shirt, is it suppposed to be an equalizer?" Then i responded "oh yes, but that's not the cool part". I turned my LED light shirt on, and he yelled in amazement! He kept yelling and singing into my shirt as the meter rose the louder he became! He enjoyed the shirt so much, that he brought me into his trailer to show the band and his 2 year old girl who said "shirt" at my shirt which was really cute. I asked Chad if it would be cool to interview him after the show for a video project that i'm working on and he said he'd do it.

After their set, i met up with Chad and asked if he plays foosball. His eyes lit up as he said "FUCK YES, I LOVE foosball!" So I had him over to my apartment with his wife Emily to conduct an interview whilst playing foosball. We played for the North American Championship and a stuffed baby monkey. After 3 intense matches, Chad took the title and the monkey. It was soooo much fun! After it was all said and done, he told me THAT was the best interview he's ever been in, and that every interview should be like that one. I will be editing the interview down to about 10 mins this week and posting it on youtube and this blog.

Shiny Toy Gun's Myspace
Wikipedia entry
Official Website
Video




I shot this video at The Capital Bar with my friends cam, thanks Curtis!

How a Passive Stingray Can Become Deadly To Steve Irwin

Stingrays like the one that killed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin are cousins of sharks. But unlike some sharks, which are fearsome predators with powerful jaws, the stingray is rarely a threat to humans and its small mouth is no threat at all.

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Saturday, September 02, 2006

An Apple-Google Friendship, and a Common Enemy

The old social networks in Silicon Valley run very deep. One need not name the enemy in mind: Microsoft, the leading rival to both Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt through most of their careers. Now, with the Internet era remaking the competitive landscape, their prospects for outdueling Microsoftâ??s Windows empire may be better than ever.

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