Saturday Night YouTubing

Wow...what a find! Check out fifteen-year-old Harold and twenty-two-year-old Fayard Nicholas, from 1936:

More here. (Who knew the Swedes were so much into swing? This incredibly cool blog MUST be blogrolled. There. Done.)

Of course the Nicholas Brothers went on to become famous for this incredible dance number from Stormy Weather, eleven years later, which Fred Astaire dubbed "the greatest dance number ever filmed":

At last -- a bigger waste of time than posting cat videos

And you thought YOU needed to get out more. (Note: NOT work-safe. Or home-safe, for that matter, unless you live in MY house, where cursing like a longshoreman is not only tolerated, but encouraged).

Every season of the Sopranos, with everything but the swearing cut out:

the sopranos, uncensored. from victor solomon on Vimeo.

(via this friggin' guy)

what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

It's a new internet meme, that's what! Behold and be present at the birth pangs.

John Cole explains.

The Googles iz already buzzin.

And faster than you can say "Sweet Jesus I Hate Chris Matthews", a new meme is born: I Am Aware of All Internet Traditions.

UPDATE: Ah, what the hell:

UPDATE 2: Lauren has unearthed an internet tradition:

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”

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Otlet’s vision hinged on the idea of a networked machine that joined documents using symbolic links. While that notion may seem obvious today, in 1934 it marked a conceptual breakthrough. “The hyperlink is one of the most underappreciated inventions of the last century,” Mr. Kelly said. “It will go down with radio in the pantheon of great inventions.”