Links to External Web Sites
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National Film Board of Canada: Play films - "Fifty NFB animated shorts, including several animation classics, can be accessed directly from this section. You can search them by title, director and year of production." There are so many classics here: "Neighbours/Voisins", "The Cat Came Back", "The Sweater", "The Big
Zidane simulator - Ohhh, so this is what I missed.
Johnny Cash, American V: A Hundred Highways - AOL is streaming this entire new release from the Man in Black. If you're a fellow Firefox user, you'll have to install the ActiveX Plug-in or use IE. You've got to hear this disc, especially his cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You
Family Guy's Greatest Hits - Somebody pieced together the best scenes from "Family Guy". The Kool Aid man is here, Peter's fight with the chicken, and that priceless scene when the doctor tells him he's fat.
City of Toronto Archives - "Every generation lives in a different Toronto. Someone lived in your home before you—who were they? What did a city street look like before cars and electric lights?" If you've ever lived in Toronto, you'll find yourself getting lost here. I recommend starting with
Have you noticed yourself visiting YouTube more and more often these past few months? I've certainly been watching more videos over there, and if you look hard enough, you're bound to find some gems. Below are some of my favourite videos currently available at YouTube. As I review my selection,
Andre's NES Emulator - The screen's a little small and the sound isn't very good, but it's still a wonderful trip down memory lane playing these old Nintendo games. I have fond memories of the simpler, 8-bit NES days when my favourite game was probably Ice Hockey. Sadly, Ice Hockey
Free Web photo editor - This is a handy web-based app for resizing, cropping, rotating and touching up your photos. I gave it a quick test drive and other than the annoying 2MB size limit which will prevent me from actually using it, it was pretty slick.
Psycho complains to city about "rogue helicopter pilot" - This is too good to be true. I could watch it over and over and over again and never get bored. If our city council meetings were like the ones in Charlotte, I'd be glued to Cable 10.
LIVE TV ONLINE TV - This link is almost too good to be true. Here you can stream 120 television stations live. It uses an ActiveX Control to embed Windows Media into a web page, so Firefox won't play it without a plugin and even then you'll have to make
100 Awesome Music Videos - I've linked to a lot of music video portals lately, but this is the king. This is a killer collection complete with reasoning and the video itself. Take on me!
Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet - My goal is to memorize every keyboard shortcut listed so I never have to touch my mouse again.
Music Videos From the 80's :: Over 1,400 Videos - This is a pretty cool collection. The more I revisit the 80s the more I fear it was a solid decade of crap. At least 99% of it was crap. "So Alive" from Love and Rockets was pretty good though,
Extortr - This is an amazing idea. Unfortunately, the most efficient way to blackmail in the world is only a joke... so far.
You're Pitiful - Weird Al Yankovich - Weird Al takes on James Blunt's overplayed "You're Beautiful". This link is directly to the MP3, so you might want to save the link to your PC and play it from there. Of course, if you're not a Weird Al guy, you're gonna
Musicovery - I should warn you before you click this link that you'll likely spend a great deal of time at Musicovery sampling tunes and playing with the settings. It's a very cool interface.
Big Spanish Castle - Stare at the dot for 30 seconds then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image.
Adtunes.com - If you've ever heard a song in a television commercial, film trailer, movie, tv show or video games and wondered what it was, this is where you go. The answer you're looking for is probably in the forums.
Krun.ch - "Krun.ch is a simple tool that simplifies the process of compressing and sending your files online. Krun.ch isn't a replacement for the traditional desktop compression tools, but its just a tool that makes things easier by cutting down all the 'krunching' hassles!"
Hallelujah - My entries about Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" are several. References to the song have made it into nineteen entries. This link, sent to me by Jill, includes many covers of Cohen's classic. Sadly, Gord Downie's version isn't there, but Imogen Heap's is. It was recorded for the season finale
Darth Vader calls the Emperor - If you like Star Wars, you'll enjoy this. "Death Star blown up by a bunch of %#$% teenagers".
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Lots of bands cover Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". Here's a pretty good list complete with MP3s.
10 Things I Hate About Commandments - Imagine "The Ten Commandments" as a teen comedy. Now, imagine the trailer. This is damn funny, I swear.
Milinkito :: El que tuvo, YouTube : 'Los Ochenta' - Don't understand that title? That's okay, neither do I. But I do know this web page has links to dozens and dozens of 80s music videos. Many of these take me back, like XTC's "Dear God", Love And Rockets' "So Alive", Duran
TV Cream Themes - Hot damn, a whole bunch of TV show theme songs in MP3 format. Go get 'em!
