everynerd.net

I came across this site the other day and instantly recognized the interface. I also recognized the fact that it had a lot of thought put into the way it was designed. It’s a small, minimalist interface under which you can achieve a lot.

The idea of Streamzy is that you enter search criteria into the box, it returns streaming music in audio OR video form, and you can add and manage playlists (and save these if you choose to register and sign in).  And by “return” it’s not simply providing links, it will play the audio and video streams in their respective custom players.

Kudos to the makers of Streamzy, it’s a very easy to use and useful (albeit probably temporary, see: copyrights) tool to search music while hardly lifting a finger.

Footnote: I was impressed by what I thought might have been a custom Accordion control holding the content grids on the page, but it was in fact a WindowShade control courtesy of the flexlib library.

There are a couple of Canadian Public Service Announcements that were released by an organization called Home Front that use an extreme circumstance to illustrate the fact that physical and emotional abuse is unacceptable against strangers, and therefore the logic is that it is unacceptable against those you love.

Obviously, the message here is very serious; domestic abuse is wholly unacceptable in this day and age and there is no excuse for it.

However, the skits in the videos released by Home Front to illustrate this dramatic message are so completely unpredictable and outrageous that it’s downright hilarious.  Here they are, full of comedic shock that would’ve made even George Carlin blush.

For anyone new to Jon’s work, this might be a good place to start. His music talent is surprisingly good considering he’s leveraging it solely for the purpose of comedy.

The new video, Show Me Your Genitals, looks to parody that goofy era of rap in the early ninties where graffiti meant there were bad dudes nearby and the bright, silly colors represented … poor clothing choices.

Check out the video below, and also give his crude Flash website a gander too. Not to criticize though, as I believe it was intentional.