Pushing the internet to even greater heights

I'm an admitted fan of mash-ups. And while in many cases the end result of combining two turds is simply a larger, grosser turd, sometimes rearranging things in unexpected ways can make magic.

Take Tube Dubber, for instance.  A mash-up tool that amazingly takes YouTube to an even stranger place.  It allows you to combine the video track of any YouTube clip with the audio track of another. 

How is this helpful, you might ask?  Well, I mentioned magic earlier.  What happens if I combine a popular movie about magic with the preeminent song about magic?  Even more magic, right?  The answer: some surprisingly badass yet expectedly stupid teen wizards.  So yes – it’s more magical.  

I’ve also discovered that Tube Dubber is capable of cranking the crazy level of YouTube upwards, past 11, and screaming into to the lower stratosphere.  By combining two elements commonly accepted as nuts – Japanese games shows and William Shatner – I created something so insane that it appears almost normal.  It may in fact have gone full circle through our plane of reality, rendering its components sane while leaving us mentally shattered.

The possibilities are endless.  I can combine two things at random – say, two suave dudes like Don Draper and Bruce Campbell – and create something even more suaver than the sum of its parts.  Or I can take an awesome movie trailer – like “9” – and use it to enhance another movie that needs some help being more awesome.   This thing is literally an “awesome enhancer”. 

Again, most times crap + crap = more crap.  But sometimes there is beauty in the juxtaposition of random things.  A whimsy in the gestalt.

Or, we could all just be going batshit insane. 

Notorious M.A.P.

The internet is a modern miracle simply for it's inherent ability to easily mash-up the seemingly unmashable.

For instance, just the other day I was wishing there were a simple resource that compiled locations from rap lyrics and then plotted then in an easy-to-navigate map so that I might actually visit, say, the club where Jay-Z stabbed that record exec. And it would preferably do it with Google Maps, as that's on double-true record as "the best".

Lo' and behold, the internet provides.

Another list I aspire to make...

One of the best things about Facebook is finding cool stuff from people who are your friends but who are not friends with all your other friends. This makes it easy to then pass links, websites, videos, photos etc off as your own discoveries, thereby making yourself look AWESOME, like an awesome finder of awesome things online who is just altogether awesome.

On that note, and with no credit to the fine fellow who actually introduced me to this site, I bring you:

Badass of the Week

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