TV

Quite possibly the coolest thing ever, putting all previous attempts to shame:

Via Scott Johnson

Thanks to Jacket Copy for pointing to this video in their “Happy birthday Ray Bradbury!” post yesterday.

Amazing to think of an SF author doing a TV commercial. I guess the contemporary equivalent might be Stephen King doing one, although he did do American Express in the 80s:

Near to it might be this awesome M. Night Shyamalan AmEx ad from a few years ago:

Which reminds me to link to the funny Wes Anderson version:

This is just all kinds of silly fun: Rush playing “Tom Sawyer” in Rock Band, backstage at the Colbert Report.

A most peculiar program description popped up on the TV last night. You’d get rapped on the knuckles if you submitted this in elementary school:

When Dinosaurs Ruled
Rumors of the existence of an ancient, gold-rich South American empire destroyed by a 250-million-year-old predator that decimated South America following the worst natural disaster ever suffered by mankind persist.

Sifting it out results in “Rumors persist” — the nose and tail of this brachiosaurus-like sentence.

(Via Serious Eats)