Posts Tagged Poetry

Geek Blog – Gangsta’s Parody, IBM Style

From John Cohn, IBM Fellow, Mad Scientist and cast member of Discovery Channel’s post-apocalyptic survival show ‘The Colony’.  A fun parody of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise.

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Geek Blog – Symphony of Science 4

The fourth video in the awesome series Symphony of Science brings us clips from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, David Attenborough’s Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, The Life of Mammals, The Living Planet, BBC Life, XVIVO Scientific Animations, IMAX Cosmic Voyage, Jane Goodall’s TED Talk, and a clever Guiness Commercial.  The theme of this video is our planet’s amazing diversity and is called The Unbroken Thread.


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Geek Blog – Middle English Rap

We’ve seen Shatner rap Shakespeare, and Klenginem rap in Klingon; this video takes it.  The cake, that is.  Red Yak produced the video (read the story here) and posted it under the YouTube user name veryredyak.  The rhythm of Middle English really lends itself to a hip-hop medium, and Chaucer’s epic Canturbury Tales is poetic, hence the rhyming aspect.  For my Word Origins/Linguistics course (medieval literature major) in college, part of my final was memorizing, and reciting (properly, which these guys to wonderfully) the General Prologue from the Tales.

Enjoy the video.  There will be a direct translation after the jump.

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Geek Blog – On a Mac

Lonely Island would be tossing in their graves…. if they were in graves, that is…

PC-PAIN LOL

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Geek Blog – Lyrics for the Final Fantasy Theme

We all make up words for songs we hear on the radio.  Some of us, even make up words for symphonic pieces.  Gene Roddenberry devised (demised?) lyrics for his original Star Trek.  The creme de la geek make up lyrics for popular video game themes.

YT user, brentalfloss put together this nice remix with lyrics.  The Star Trek theme in action, after the jump.

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Autumn

Autumn

The autumn road awaits, my dear.
Come walk with me, my son.
The autumn road awaits us,
We’ll seek adventure and fun.

Into the woods, let’s roam,
Off the beaten path.
The love and warmth of home
Will always bring us back.

The road ahead is open
And life’s adventure waits.
Let’s journey down together;
A family as one.

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Geek Blog – Science, Music and Metaphysics

Take a moment and think about the Universe.  I’ll let these videos speak for themselves.

A Glorious Dawn, featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

We Are All Connected featuring Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Bill Nye, Neil degrasse Tyson

Big thanks to youtube user melodysheep.  More info (including MP3 format and lyrics can be found at The Symphony of Science.

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Geek Blog – “Follow Me” Unites Hip-Hop and 8-Bit

Pato Pooh and Adam Tensta are a couple of Swedish hip-hop artists representin’ Stockholm.  In their latest collaboration, they produced the following video, Follow Me.  The video is full of pop culture references and internet memes (Tay Zonday, All Your Base, Peanut Butter/Jelly Time) as well as throwbacks (Pooh said he wants to “rewind”) to old gaming classics, Mega Man, Street Fighter, Starfox (do a barrel roll!), TMNT, Donkey Kong, Punch Out!!, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda, Ice Climbers, Back to the Future, Tetris, Kirby, Duck Hunt and hehe Pong.

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