Ken Lee, Two Chinese Characters, Kiki and Bubu

The Internets coughed up three fab things recently:

First: Bulgarian Idol contestant Valentina Hazan sings with her heart, adding a whole new dimension to whatever the hell we are talking about, when we talk about love.

In the process, she spawns the dance hit of the summer, inspires a raft ofYoutube imitators, and even Mariah Carey responds by saying the right thing.

Ken lee, tulibu dibu doutchu...

Then, just in time for the Olympics, Two Chinese Characters teach you how to say "Beijing," and to cheer on your team in Chinese.

And, finally, there's Kiki and Bubu, the world's only classical Marxist sock-puppets. In a series of videos, they take on the contradictions of the "new" economy, explore surveillance as a bourgeois privilege by means of a reading of Orwell's 1984, and deconstruct copyright and identity while helping their friend, the Online Porn Monster, avert a psychological crisis when he is accused of being a plagiarism. ("Want to be .... SOMETHING ELSE ...")

Oh, okay. Just one more: An Engineer's Guide to Cats.

Weirdly Satisfying

David Bessler's Pipecleaner Dance is a cross between Muybridge and dance lessons from Zefrank. Nb: Use the keyboard; it works better that way.

Dead Media Nostalgia Meaningful Only to GenX

We had divorce and Jimmy Carter and nuclear winter and teachers blowing up in rocket ships.

But we also had mix tapes.

Cassette from My Ex lets you relive those days in all their cheesy, angst-ridden glory. They were into you, so they made you a tape. Today you don't have a cassette player, but you still can't toss that mix.

Not Much To Do Round Here Now That Bear Stearns Has Tanked

made by furmuslbulk
Originally uploaded by boyshapedbox.

From the Flickr pool for powerpointed pop songs.

"Finally" "!!!!" """"

The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks.

PlanetFeedback.com

I just lost an hour at PlanetFeedback.com, where you can write and send, via a web form, grievance letters to companies that suck. Interesting.