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Archive for March, 2009

Video of the day: Feist's Juno music video of the year

Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

Anthony Seck won the 2009 Juno (Canadian Grammy award) for video of the year with Feist’s Honey Honey. If you haven’t seen this video yet, you will be mesmerized by the fantastical images and storyline and Feist’s ethereal voice:

While so many artists have neglected making creative music videos, worth more than showing off how great the musician is are or how big their boat is (or just that they’re… on a boat), it’s refreshing to see something about more than the performer.

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Beautiful custom urban bikes by Republic

Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Sports | 2 Comments »

Republic makes gorgeous, customized bicycles for $344. By customized, we mean nearly every colour (saddle, chain, tires, wheels, etc.) and through a nifty interface. The physical bike is pretty standardized steel frame and components, but you can have fun and create a very unique looking bike. They come as interchangeable fixed gear and freewheel drivetrains.

Here’s one:

Republic Aristotle Build 6

Check out the build quality. Looks like decent components:

Aristotle build quality

The full bike weight a very reasonble 24 pounds.

What’s your Aristotle? Share it here. Here’s ours:

NorthGeek Aristotle build

Again, we’d love to see some social media site sharing by this company!

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Create your own Muppet (puppet)

Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Cool | No Comments »

Make your own Muppet for $90. Have fun. Here are approximations of your NorthGeek authors:
Daniel:
Muppet Daniel
Noah:
Muppet Noah

This now is another toy customization ecommerce site, but we’d love to see some social media sharing going on here — make a Muppet and share it via your social network of choice!

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What ever happened to Koolanoo?

Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day, Web | 1 Comment »

With a promo video like this, how could they not be around anymore?

open source video, online video platform, video solution

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Where the Wild Things Are: Movie preview out today

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Cool | No Comments »

The preview, for what looks to be a stunning film rendition of the famous children’s book Where the Wild Things are, came out today, and it’s set to the insistent, dramatic beat of The Arcade Fire. See it over at Apple or click below.

Where the Wild Things Are

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Video of the Day: Creme that egg

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

A most creative way to break a creme egg:

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Video of the day: Family Guy rides his 10 speed

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

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Video of the Day: Bad Driving

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

Even if you own a car, you need to know how to drive.

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Video of the day: Day drinking with Pete and Brian

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

Day drinking with Pete and Brian. This is too funny.

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Video of the day: Better airline safety announcements

Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Of The Day | No Comments »

How to get airline passengers to listen to safety announcements, by Southwest Airlines

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