Riding the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” train, Office Max has brought back the annual holiday hit Elf Yourself. This year’s version is powered by JibJab and enables more sharing/embedding features than ever before. After the jump you can check out Jim Tressel, Dan, Anisha, Albert, and myself disco dancing as elves.
Hear that boiling noise? That curse word uttered through clenched teeth? That’s a frustrated gamer, kids.
In gaming, frustration builds to either a controller being thrown across the room or a game disc being snapped in two, left to fester under the entertainment center like Dust Bunny Prime. These moments occur when faced with insurmountable odds, usually a rush of Nazis, zombies, demons, or anthropomorphic mushrooms that turn the game into a mess of button mashing or hurried strategy. It sucks, sure, but getting through the chaos offers the satisfaction of beating the odds and turning the virtual tide (and, usually, 10 achievement points).
In rare cases, though, it offers a unique joy. A moment found in certain games that recharges the batteries better than any can of Bawlz guarana drink ever could. That special moment is the Tank Level, where frustration turns to elation and s**t blows up to the solitary cheers of the gaming enthusiast.
Internet Video + Primetime TV Shows + User Curation + MySpace = Primetime Application
Here’s the official blurb:
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MySpace’s new Primetime Application enables users to watch full-length and short form Hulu, Warner Bros, MySpace Original, and Licensed Content on their profiles and home pages.
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While videos on a MySpace page are nothing new, this takes it a step further by allowing people to stream their favorite shows via their own custom channel. So instead of visiting Eric’s MySpace page and seeing Battlestar Galactica and The Office listed as his favorite shows, I can watch his favorite episodes right there on his page. Enabling channel creation will also clean up clutter on people’s pages, since before the Primetime Application they’d have to embed a separate player for each video.
Click here to see the app on a page.
Although President-Elect Obama is still a couple months away from moving into his new white home – he has wasted no time in moving to a new interweb home at change.gov. It’s listed as the website for the Office of the President-Elect and houses a variety of president-elect content. It’s essentially the offspring of a presidential campaign site and whitehouse.gov. What I find most interesting about this is the slight social focus of the site.
We’ll start Top 5 with John Durbin. He asked Dan Buczaczer his Top 5 Albums of 1998:
