This is sweet, very creative. Reminds me a little bit of Michel Gondry’s video for Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar.[via Mashable]

“Just in time for its 10th year anniversary, “Trinity Help” is a frame-accurate stop-frame animation of the famous bullet-dodge scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, all done in Lego.”

Lego Matrix

United Snakes from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

“generative video built with #openFrameworks” via @generatorx

in other news, apparently you can’t post embed codes to videos and such on wordpress.com, because it has its own special markup syntax like forum codes to embed specific services that are wordpress.com approved. are we fucking 12 for the love of god? there’s already a standard syntax for use in embedding video on the interwebs and it’s called FUCKING HTML.

really pissed right now, can’t wait to migrate elsewhere — squarespace maybe?

Brilliant British comedy series that first aired in 2002.

via Console Wars: Nintendo Dominates US Hardware Sales Again With Big, Big January.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the media business is being turned upside down by our new freedoms and our new roles. We’re not just readers anymore, or listeners or viewers. We’re not customers and we’re certainly not consumers. We’re users. We don’t consume content, we use it, and mostly what we use it for is to support our conversations with one another, because we’re media outlets now too. When I am talking about some event that just happened, whether it’s an earthquake or a basketball game, whether the conversation is in email or Facebook or Twitter, I want to link to what I’m talking about, and I want my friends to be able to read it easily, and to share it with their friends.”

Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky.

“If there was any doubt in your mind that the iPhone is the next disruptive viral platform, it is.”

iMafia’s Charles Ju: How We Launched a Social Game on the iPhone.

So it’s official — I’m seriously sweating the BlackBerry Storm. This is made only slightly troubling by the fact that I have about 10 months left on my iPhone contract with AT&T. Having owned multiple phones on different carriers before there are pluses and minuses to consider:

Plus:

• You are almost never without service
• Take advantage of free in-network calling on multiple carriers
• Have extra voice minutes on one phone or another almost all the time
• If you forget to charge one phone you probably have the other one available in the meantime
• Get to play with two gadgets! You can take advantage of the best features of each and use each one for what it does best.

Minus:

• Starting with the most obvious: two phone bills every month
• Either deal with the hassle of carrying both phones around at all times, or deal with the inevitability of people calling you on the phone you don’t happen to have with you just then
• Deal with syncing 2 phones and keeping track of media in two places
• Packing 2 chargers and miscellaneous accessories while travelling
• The weaknesses of one device aren’t always complemented by the strengths of the other

Overall it depends on your needs but for me, I tend to miss having the benefits of two phones more than I get annoyed by the hassles of maintaining them. I recently ended a second Verizon plan with the Treo 700p and already miss having a second device enough to be seriously contemplating the Storm. My other big and convenient excuse is my AT&T service at my country home is so close to non-existent that it’s not always practical to use the iPhone as my only cell phone. I’ve been using a zBoost cell repeater for the past 18 months to great effect but either something’s changed in the signal or the device such that it’s been less effective for the past couple of months. I’ve made up for that with Skype Out but the thought of having no mission critical emergency communication when the internet or power is out is troubling. All of which is a lot of practical excuse to justify picking up the sexy Storm on Friday but, you know, lots of people have unusual hobbies…

Also having a bit of gadget lust over the Flip Mino HD CK just reviewed, although I’d like to check out the quality of the video recording on the Storm because I don’t really need HD quality — I just want something easily portable that can capture video on the fly at unexpected moments at a quality level high enough to not look totally embarassingly pixelated on YouTube. If such a thing can happen inside the phone I already cart around, more the better.