Random videos:
This is by far the best thing that happened at the golden globes:
They did a thing for the 10th anniversary of Look Around You, the fake British science documentary series, and produced this incredibly weird intermission video for the event:
Starting with a transparent image and reverse google image searching for the most similar image over and over again is pretty fascinating. (there are a couple of frames that contain some topless women (I think from that Spartacus tv series)… I’m astonished it didn’t go off the rails at that point, but it was only a couple that I saw)
Just in case someone missed it, this is a wonderful incorrect guess on Jeopardy:
The delivery is a little weak, but this guy’s interview with Yvonne Strahovski is still very funny:
This trailer for “The Worst of CGI” is pretty amazing. Although I don’t fully understand the clips of Hitler. Perhaps, they are holocaust deniers who think all this Hitler footage is fake, in which case I shouldn’t be supporting the trailer to their movie.
Magic Johnson should not allowed to narrate basketball highlights. This is kind of painful to listen to.
I love it when reporters on the sideline get hit with soccer balls:
And this K-Pop comes, strangely, via Warren Ellis’ website. Ellis usually likes weird electronic music influenced by 80s pop, or strange ambient stuff, but he had some guy post his top 6 records of 2011, and right in there was this. (the best part is around 1:33 where a little blonde Korean girl appears to threaten to slit someone’s throat with a switchblade comb)
That 2NE1 song is actually from 2010! I do like them, and in particular that album.
That recursive image search was interesting, though I suspect some of it was done by filename. That’s the only plausible explanation for some of the discontinuous jumps in the search. Fun to watch though, albeit with a slightly disappointing conclusion.
From my limited use of reverse image search on google, it not only looks at the image, but tries to figure out what it’s a picture of (which is really handy for “who is the hot model in this picture” purposes). That may be done by filename, or it may look at the context of the pages the image is in (or both). The similar image thing is usually something visually similar, but sometimes it decides “this is a picture of Kate Upton, so here are a bunch of other pictures of Kate Upton.”