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Songza - The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.

great site - found every song i tried. just plugin, pic, and play.

the playlist feature is great - just make a list of songs you want playing in the background and let it play.

some of the songs don’t sound that great, a little better sometimes - maybe 64kbs to 128kbs - but it is great in a pinch.

have you had occasion to use an exercise ball (or, as Wikipedia refers to it: Swiss Ball) for its intended use?

take a gander at this video:

videos like this abound on YouTube and Break.com. it seems there are no lengths to long for that precarious fifteen minutes (or 45 seconds) of shame fame. yes, it was staged. yes, it is juvenile. but why would such immaturity obtain so many hits/views?

the silliness of slow motion

in the video above, the sounds of the ball striking the alleged victim, his head striking the garage door, and the subsequent sounds of distress, when slowed down, make the video quite laughable - enough so that co-workers have adopted the “throes of pain” and “agony to god” sounds as text message alerts. one intrepid cube-mate has likened the sound to a “being-thrown under the bus” event - the sound a tech worked emits upon getting drug into another hopeless project.

“Humour is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience.” - Nietzsche

one may also find the attraction to such videos as rampant schadenfreude. the video below shows an innocent pre-teenaged girl singing a barbie song interceded by a young boy, presumably her brother, slamming her head with a pillow.

(the brother’s “shit eating grin” at the end of the slow motion sequence is priceless.) do weenjoy these videos as a result of taking pleasure from another’s misfortune? have we all become so egomaniacal and self-serving that we find overt pleasure in these arranged contretemps? to test my theories on this phenomenon, i enlisted the usual test subjects friends for validation. to a person, every one tested exhibited the same jubilation and joy upon the conclusion of the slow motion tragedies - most desired the clip be played over and over. i was not alone in my morose delectation.

slowing the trend?

probably not directly possible. the inertia of internet memes is almost impossible to sway or slow - there are no firemen for inadvertent celebrity (regardless of detriments to the spectacle) the lonelygirl15 hoax spawned instant celebrity to the creators/actors and numerous spin off creations, including Law and Order episodes, music videos, and board games. all comers want those intractable videos to become viral - and the genius ones - like the lonelygirl15 - will. for now, all our base will belong to them. and slowing will rise as rapidly as your reaction to 2 Girls, 1 Cup.