Sour Alba

OK, you’ve probably all seen this but if you haven’t, it’s comedy gold. The Apprentice remixed to make Alan Sugar entertaining… Get’s very, very funny at 2:45.  ”From Tower Bridge right up to Westminster”.

Accordion legend shows he can still bust a funky rhyme.

One of my favourite web things ever was the version of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton that cut out everything but the swearing. (I used to be a well-spoken young man but then I entered my first newsroom…) That was many years ago. 

Now there is a worthy successor and what a labour of love it is: every nugget of sweartastic goodness from every episode of The Sopranos. And nothing else. Pure, unadulterated Anglo Saxon. Oh, and it’s not very safe for work. Or your mum. Unless, that is, your mum is a heavily tattooed Lithuanian sailor with Tourette’s.

the sopranos, uncensored. from victor solomon on Vimeo.

All hail the New Media Company Generator – a worthy successor to the almost prophetic Web Economy Bullshit Generator. (I know companies that really do “exploit viral markets” and “scale robust communities”.)

The wickedly observed company generator came up with ThirstyBadger, which on the while I like better than w00tonomy.

It’s good to see the barriers of sick humour being pushed so I salute rathergood.com for their triumphant video “Two pumpkins, one cup“, which is almost as repulsively vomit inducing as the video it parodies. And if you don not know what video that is I for one am not going to tell you.

I was pleased to learn that career mass war criminal (allegedly) Radovan Karadzic has finally been brought to book. There aren’t many laughs to be had out of the Balkan conflicts but I was tickled to hear that the former leader of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina had been living in secret as an alternative healer.

Can you imagine having your chakras realigned by that guy?

“Hi there, I’ve been having trouble with my sciatica.”

“Well, I would recommend a combination of treatments. Chiropracty, hopi ear candles and rounding up all males over the age of 15 and dumping their bodies in a mass grave for the glory of Greater Serbia.”

Finally, a shout out to Goran Kojic who is officially the journo with the worst news sense in Europe. As editor the Belgrade magazine Healthy Life, he commissioned pieces from one of the most wanted men in the world without every clocking that Karadzic was anything other than your run of the mill tea tree hugger.

Mad propz to Craig McGill over at Cluttered desk for spotting this brilliant vision of a zombie outbreak as seen through Twitter. Key quote: “Rigged the house with explosives. This may be my last tweet, people.”

And that’s a sentiment I share as I find myself overwhelmed by social media: this blog, podcasts, my work blog, Twitter, Facebook, Dopplerz, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Flickr. And that’s without the daily grind of reading through my Yahoo Pipes and Google Reader. When’s a net professional supposed to get any work done?

Very funny wee film about cars at a zebra crossing being faced with a seemingly never-ending parade of pedestrians in fancy dress.

Yay for crazy mash-ups. This one effortlessly blends the delicate harmonies of the Beach Boys with a fondly-remembered advert of my youth.

Thanks to Bruce Combe from The List for pointing out this great headline in Woman & Home (no, I don’t know what he was looking for either). “Five years off your face”? I didn’t know that Bez wrote for that market. What next? “Shaun Ryder opens his heart to the People’s Friend”?