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Babies debate in mesmerizing babble-speak

Watch as eighteen-month-old fraternal twin boys Sam and Ren converse in a heated debate about something we mere older people will never comprehend. This week the video pasted above has gone viral, and after you mash play you’ll no longer wonder why. But how is this da-da-da conversation taking place? Listen to what the experts have to say.

According to Stephen Camarata, professor of hearing and speech, “These kids are right on the cusp of language. They’re using the intonation patterns of sentences — imitating sentences in a crude way. It’s one way that children learn how to talk.” Adds Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, education professor and director of the infant language project at the University of Delaware: “Even before they have words, they know how conversation work. They’re producing syllables emphatically and using them for communication purposes. They’re having a ball.”

Crazy huh?

[Via ABC News]

This kid can rap…FAST

This kid named George Watsky can rap.  He’s pretty incredible.  This might have turned into a viral hit (it’s currently at 3 million views and counting), but Watsky is no one-hit wonder.  He happens to be a professional performer and an extremely talented poet.  He was the 2006 Youth Speaks Grand Slam Poetry Champion and was later featured on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.  Jump after the break to watch him perform an epic poem about kids who stutter.

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The Assassination of Yogi Bear by the Coward Booboo

This video is disturbing, unsettling, and hilarious all at the same time.  The upcoming Yogi Bear animated movie doesn’t hit theatres until this Friday, but that didn’t stop 25-year-old animator Edmund Earle from making a parody video that went instantly viral.  He’s billing it as a “parody” in hopes that Warner Bros. (the studio behind the real Yogi Bear movie) do not take it down from the ‘Net.  He makes it clear that the video is independently made and that he has no association with the movie.  Anyway, the title of the viral hit is “Yogi Bear Alternate Ending: Booboo Kills Yogi” and it’s nearly a shot-by-shot recreation of the final scene from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a 2007 Western starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck.  Taking a comically dark route in this parody was “an organic creation”, Earle told the WSJ (that’s right–the WSJ has already interviewed him and the video was uploaded to YouTube earlier today).  I’m not surely exactly what it is–the music, the way this short story is told through the eyes of the characters?–but again there’s something very unsettling about watching a famed cartoon go down like this.  Ah well, in the end it’s an extremely well made parody and you should watch it, unless of course you’re under the age of 12.

Watch the Google Chrome notebook get destroyed in more ways than one

In this unorthodox demonstration video Chrome UX designer Glen Murphy destroys a Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook.  Since Chrome OS relies on the cloud to store data, it doesn’t matter what happens to your computer.  Get it?

Time traveling woman using cell phone in 1928 Chaplin film?

George Clarke, an Irish filmmaker and avid Charlie Chaplin fan, believes he has spotted a woman in Chaplin’s The Circus (1928) walking across an otherwise normal scene using a cell phone.  Clarke says that he has studied this film and the scene in particular (a DVD extra) for over a year; neither he nor “over 100” of his aquaintances have been able to provide an explanation for the woman’s actions.  In the video you can clearly see our subject walking past Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with her hand to her ear and she’s talking.  Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with this viral hit, and I’m sitting here trying to wrap my head around it.  Mainstream news, per usual, is doing its best to find reasons against such an unruly theory as time travel.  Some think that the woman is simply humming to herself and itching the side of her face.  That’s a long itch!

Go on and hop after the break to watch the scene and decide for yourself.  And you can add this to our ongoing collection of time travelers.

[Via Mashable] Continue reading Time traveling woman using cell phone in 1928 Chaplin film?

Band loses gear, rocks out on NYC subway using iPhone instrument apps

Brooklyn-based band Atomic Tom supposedly had all their instruments stolen earlier this month.  So they decided to hop on the B-train and perform their single “Take Me Out” using nothing but iPhones and musical apps.  The video went viral and has garnered around 2.1 million hits on YouTube.  I say “supposedly had their instruments stolen” because this all went down about three months after their debut album The Moment hit iTunes.  Publicity stunt or not, these guys are super talented.

[Via Digg]

Girl begins to strip on ChatRoulette, but it’s not what you think…

The marketing team behind the upcoming horror flick The Last Exorcism is good, real good.  Using ChatRoulette, they are tricking desperate boys everywhere into thinking a beautiful girl is about to strip right before their innocent widening eyes.  Much to their surprise (their reactions are PRICELESS), the girl is not about to flash her boobs but instead scare the crap out of them!  Genius viral marketing campaign, indeed.  The Last Exorcism hits theatres next Friday.

[Via Gizmodo]

Droid does bra size, underwear detection, & more

A few weeks back Motorola started a viral video campaign called  “SECRET MOTOROLA DROID UNLOCK CODES.”  In the videos a group of guys enter a series a numbers into a Motorola Droid to enable hidden features.  Some of the new videos have picked up in popularity and are actually quite entertaining.  In the video above, one of these special unlock codes turns the Droid into a bra size and underwear detector.  Look after the break for two more videos featuring the Droid as a taser and animal translator.  Man, what can’t Droid do?

[Via Android&Me; Gizmodo]

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Crazy engineers cannonball themselves to recreate the Intel chime

This dangerous stunt by “Intel engineers” to recreate the famous Intel chime from the commercials sounds (and looks) crazy, right?  Well, it turns out it is too crazy to be true.  This is an viral video promoting Intel; the “engineers” are actors and the cannonball stunt is fake.  Hell, at least it’s entertaining.

[Via Engadget]