John Roberts is a voiceover actor most famous for his character Linda Belcher on FOX’s Bob’s Burgers. Roberts imitated his Brooklyn-born mother in comedy videos on YouTubeBob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard took note and turned the character into Li…
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Rollerblades have gone electric
These motorized ‘RocketSkates’ are basically the hoverboard of roller skates. Read more…More about Videos, Video, Mashable Video, Real Time Video, and Realtime
View More Rollerblades have gone electricWatch this Mark Hamill ‘Star Wars’ interview – from 1976
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A new video of Mark Hamill has surfaced – or rather, an old video. So old, in fact, that it predates the release of the first Star Wars movie.
Hamill and Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz visited WorldCon’s MidAmeriCon in 1976 to talk about their bizarre and ambitious upcoming picture. They’re welcomed to the stage with polite applause which feels far, far away from the echoing screams of Comic-Con Hall H.
In a Q&A during which Kurtz says he hopes Star Wars won’t be over two hours, where someone asks about “light swords,” and where Hamill pokes fun at his own line “Gee, it’s lucky we had these compartments” and refers to Chewbacca as a “big ape man” (“More like a dog, or a big furry bear with a dog’s nose. Very huggable,” adds Kurtz), what’s truly remarkable is looking back into a room where no one had any concept of how Star Wars would eventually change the world. Read more…
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View More Watch this Mark Hamill ‘Star Wars’ interview – from 1976Mom tries out VR, ends up cuddling a doggy butt IRL
While experiencing the thrills of virtual reality, this mom got a bit overwhelmed and reached for her dog to comfort her.
Unfortunately, the VR headset prevented her from seeing the dog, which means she grabbed the wrong end and wound up nuzzling…
Pizza in space clearly means well but looks pretty disgusting
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Getting to explore space sounds pretty darn cool, but the experience comes with many sacrifices. Sure, time away from family must be rough, but one of the most heartbreaking losses is having to leave delicious pizza behind on Earth.
Paolo Nespoli, an Italian astronaut who’s currently orbiting our planet aboard the International Space Station, missed pizza so much that he boldly brought it up to his boss during a live streamed public event.
The result? Pizza in space.
According to a tweet from Nespoli, his boss delivered the ingredients needed to construct some out of this world pizza pies. Fellow Expedition 53 crew member, astronaut Randy Bresnik, uploaded a minute-long video of the assembly process. Read more…
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‘Game of Thrones’ murderous Red Wedding banger gets a beautiful dance treatment
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Game of Thrones and its music have gotten plenty of covers, from violins and vocals to instrumentals from around the world, and at least one kooky Kanye mashup… but we haven’t seen as much dancing – until now. Dancers Geatali Tampy and Priya Lupita Shah teamed up to perform a haunting duet to “The Rains of Castamere” – you know, that murderous Lannister banger from the Red Wedding.
The video, filmed by Alvin Alex, opens on Shah and Tampy as sisters in the North (we’d recognize those cloaks anywhere), inseparable until Shah receives a mysterious scroll. Tampy goes snooping (classic Arya) and finds out that the Lannisters want one sister to betray the other. Read more…
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View More ‘Game of Thrones’ murderous Red Wedding banger gets a beautiful dance treatmentGillmor Gang: Netfix
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Elisa Camahort Page, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 1, 2017.
G3: Hacking Cough — Mary Hodder, Francine Hardaway, Maria Ogneva, Tina Hui, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, December 1, 2017.
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Tragedy strikes the American Girl Store on ‘SNL,’ but everyone is fixated on this one dude
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Saturday Night Live checked in with shoppers after an underground gas main exploded at a Phoenix American Girl Store, and boy were they shaken up.
Reporter Ben Hartley (Kenan Thompson) spoke with customers Debbie Pritchard, a mother shopping with her daughter (played by Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan,) and Thomas Dean (Mikey Day) a grown-ass man who was just, you know, shopping for a doll. Alone.
They recounted the horrific experience of the explosion, explaining what brought each of them to the store to begin with.
Though Dean claimed he was “buying a gift” his weird doll obsession wound up overshadowing the explosion, and it wasn’t long before Hartley uncovered the real story: Grown Man Frequents American Girl Store Alone with Beloved Doll. Read more…
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Alec Baldwin’s Trump is haunted by Michael Flynn in ‘SNL’s’ Christmas Carol’ cold open
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Saturday Night Live decked the halls with the ghosts of Donald Trump’s presidency in tonight’s yuletide cold open, and Alec Baldwin was right there for the Dickensian reckoning.
There’s evidently not much to celebrate around the White House this Christmas, what with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.
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Kellyanne Conway, expertly played as ever by Kate McKinnon, tried to lighten the mood, reminding the president of his many accomplishments, like passing the GOP tax bill and… passing the GOP tax bill. Read more…
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Why the first 5 minutes of every video conference is, ‘Can you hear me?’
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The video conference is one of the least-liked parts of modern office culture.
Despite the plethora of video conferencing services — Google Hangouts, BlueJeans, Highfive, Skype, FaceTime, and dozens more — the first five minutes of every meeting tends to be a series of fruitless attempts to get everyone’s audio working correctly. And even when it does, dropped connections, poorly timed muting/unmuting, and quiet talkers often ruin the flow.
The truth is video conferencing is hard. Layering random internet services on top of ad hoc equipment on top of users with virtually no training means you get a grab-bag of results. Sure there are sleek corporate systems, but their cost often puts them out of range of most startups. Read more…
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View More Why the first 5 minutes of every video conference is, ‘Can you hear me?’Fire TV owners can now control Hulu, NBC, CBS and other video apps via their voice
Amazon Fire TV owners will now be able to control more video apps using Alexa and their voice, the company announced today. This feature lets you ask Alexa to “watch,” “play,” “pause,” “rewind,” “fast forward,” and more. It can also take you to an individual show, network, or specific genre of programming. Before, Alexa could… Read More
Fire TV owners can now control Hulu, NBC, CBS and other video apps via their voice
Amazon Fire TV owners will now be able to control more video apps using Alexa and their voice, the company announced today. This feature lets you ask Alexa to “watch,” “play,” “pause,” “rewind,” “fast forward,” and more. It can also take you to an individual show, network, or specific genre of programming. Before, Alexa could… Read More