Things One Needs to See/Hear
Eric Spieglan Bio 2010 US Physics Team <http://www.aapt.org/physicsteam/2010/team.cfm?id=830&year=2010>
Collide – Howie Day <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9ub9rpNK4>
Symphonies – Dan Black Featuring Kid Cudi <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD6NKoUWmZg>
4D Rubik’s Cube <http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm>
Flips Text Upside Down by Replacing characters with approx upside-down ACSII characters <http://www.revfad.com/flip.html>
All your base are belong to us (video)
Dragostei Din Dei (Numa Numa) (also see Extended Remix) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o>
Magical Trevor <http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/>
Pachelbel Canon – <http://www.helander.se/stefan/pachelbel/>, also see Lee Galloway and Kelly Yost’s versions
Pachelbel Rock – JerryC <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597>
Pachelbel Rant – comedian commenting on the fact that you can hear Pachelbel Canon embedded in so many modern songs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM>
Crazy Frog Alex F. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdGq2wH6Xk>
DotA – Basshunter <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpQpuL9WMzU>
Boten Anna – Basshunter <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX79tgB2PVk>
Halla Dar (Hello There) – Basshunter <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnS20dnlF04>
Russia Privjet – Basshunter <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tz7KSmYl_0>
I Miss You – Basshunter
Butterfly Samurai – (from Dance Dance Revolution, title is “Butterfly”)
Raver’s Fantasy – Tuna <http://www.esnips.com/doc/fff3ef8f-b6ad-4727-afc2-424bf40c44b9/ravers-fantasy>, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBRPI0dV9E&feature=related> (Kingdom Hearts (Anime))
Ecuador Sash <http://www.esnips.com/doc/d7238004-33d8-49f8-988d-eaf6be5b0fe7/Sash—Ecuador>
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKgZ6qP4S8>
Odysee – Scarf <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdk_dCg30IQ&feature=related>, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpNINHZlfM>
Every Time We Touch – Cascada <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0GmiSMNGI>
Skater Boy – Avril Lavigne
The Last Lecture (Journeys) – Randy Pausch <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo>, also a book
The Llama Song – Llama llama duck <http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama>
The Sawyer Song – Sawyer Sawyer Lock (parody of llama llama duck) <http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sawyer>
The Gamma Song – Gamma Gamma Look (parody of llama llama duck) <http://youtube.com/watch?v=u328PglVpLU>
The above 3 songs are parodies of a song in the Gilbert and Sullivan play Pirates of Penzance <http://youtube.com/watch?v=vytosDX9dVM>
Sandstorm by Darude (From DDR Dance Dance Revolution) <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3160476304834958368&q>
I’m Just a Kid – Simple Plan <http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMCbDEkLJZI>
Skater Boy
Dancing Christmas Lights (song: Wizards in Winter by Trans-Siberian Orchestra) <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4983931962566123785>
Snow – Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP)
Wet Sand – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Behind these Hazel Eyes – Kelly Clarkson, also, versions: Stanford Counterpoint, Sephiroth Trance [vol. 2]
Still Alive – Portal Video Game Credits Song <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI>, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwRLKl2Co4&feature=related>, also see piano version <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeI7Vo3c4s&feature=related>, sheet music: <http://spaceparanoids.net/music/Still_Alive_Piano_Sheet_Music.pdf>
Unforgiven II – Metallica
<http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Bz3dmldlSk>
Kids in America – Cascada <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLxeiBzSJQ&feature=related>
Rhythm and Drums – DJ Manian (other remixes are better) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIQvyqcKuEI>
All of Sid Meier’s games
Password dictionary attack info <http://geodsoft.com/howto/password/common.htm>
Pictures at an Exhibition – Mussorgsky <http://youtube.com/watch?v=PhOz3lNMCFU>
Somewhere Over the Rainbow version by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole (also includes It’s a Wonderful World) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8>, Jason Castro’s version (American Idol) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjh5bEOFW30>
White and Nerdy – Weird Al Yankovic <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw>
Song (title in Japanese): どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう？ by Korean band TVXQ (aka Dong Shin Ki, Tong Vfang Xin Qi, and Tohoshinki, Doushite kimi wo suki ni natte shimattandarou) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2FzMky6JYo>
I will Derive, parody of I will Survive with calculus <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE>
Remember the Name – Fort Minor (This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent concentrated power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, And a hundred percent reason to remember the name)
Fold.it – a protein folding game <http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main>
The Meatrix – site protesting factory farming – <http://www.themeatrix.com/>
Epic StarCraft game – Shin Han Bank Proleague for the first half year 2008, Bisu[Shield] (Jade Green Toss) SKT T1, vs n.Die)Jaedong (Orange Zerg) Lecaf OZ
Low – FloRida feat. T-Pain
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (lyrics repeat “I walk alone”) – Green Day <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxfpMGLMZ7Y>
Epic Starcraft Game 0 Shin Han Bank Proleague for the first half year 2008 Bisu[Shield] (Jade Green Toss) SKT T1…………..vs n.Die) Jaedong (Orange Zerg) Lecaf OZ Map : Andromeda 1.0 Bisu wins <http://youtube.com/watch?v=cZNK0MGOq5w>
Viva la Vida (song) – Coldplay <http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xrcll6BRwu8>
This Land – Flash Video parodying the 2004 race for president between George Bush and John Kerry <http://www.jibjab.com/originals/this_land>
Star Wars Gangsta Rap (SE) <http://www.atom.com/fun_games/gangsta_rap_se/>
The Jargon File <http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/>
Jerusalem by Emerson, Lake & Palmer <http://youtube.com/watch?v=o4bzRI0BUv0>
-Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM>
-Baby Swamp Rabbit (same kind that attacked Jimmy Carter) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Southern_swamp_rabbit_baby.jpg>
-Anyway You Want It – Journey <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VgcZqt-mSk&feature=related>
-World War II (WWII) as if it were StarCraft or a real time strategy game <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/supersaiyanatmaweapon/wwiibv7.gif>
-Barack roll – parody of the Rick Roll with clips of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama saying the words to “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4>
-Star Trek vs. Star Wars <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxhrPaaCA4>
-Virtual Barber Shop <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA>. Binaural recording of a barber shop scene.
-Perfectly ridden tubes (deep) <http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=12579>
-Amazing skimboarding (actually riding serious waves!) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOwQojkLyY8&feature=related>
-Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale (and in general)
-Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
-I Dreamed a Dream: Les Miserables (and version by Susan Boyle “Susan Boyle – Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 – Saturday 11th April” <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk> and Hayley Westenra’s version <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMJlTjzZgs>)
-Your Guardian Angel – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRehmX3zlwE>
-Ligger Med Varandra – DJ Auzern
-Det Här Är Ett Äventyr – DJ Auzern
-Lost Along The Way – The Rescues
-Hey, Soul Sister – Train
-When Your Heart Stops Beating – +44
-Down – Jay Sean
-African Tonic (African Tonik le clip officiel 2008). Mohammed Lamine
–artist Tyler Ward in general
-Solo – Iyaz <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWq4LMjQCw>
-Sally Gardens
-The Lakes of Ponchartrain
. Dragostea Din Tei – O-Zone
2. Dragostea Din Tei (English) – Dan Balan & Lucas Prata
3. Net Die Een Vir My – Nicholis Louw & Shine 4
4. Numa Yey (Hebrew) – Various
5. Sugar Tunes – Dan Balan
6. Shabu Shabu – 2moro
7. Oh Jao Nee – Yai
8. No Answer – Nop Bayarith
9. Muggen Hier, Muggen Daar – Gobroeders Ko
10. Wenn der Hafer Sticht – Antonia
11. Maija Hii – Skidipops
12. Dragostea Din Tei – Minisztár
13. Maija Hii (Again) – Skidipops
14. Argent-Argent – Cauet feat. Mopral
15. Allo – De Feestridders
16. Bu Pa Bu Pa – Guo Mei Mei
17. Dragostea Din Tei – Fancy
18. Dragostea Din Tei (Vietnamese) – Vu Ha
19. Dragostea Din Tei (Indonesian) – Barakatak
20. Dragostea Din Tei (Again!) – O-Zone
The Beatles
Simon and Garfunkle
Rascal Flatts
Original Lego Racers game
Original Super Mario
SimCity (2000, 3000, 4000)
StarCraft
WarCraft (III, World of WarCraft)
MotherLoad (motherlode) <www.miniclip.com/motherload.htm>
RuneScape
Neopets
Bubble Tanks 2 <http://armorgames.com/play/1920/bubble-tanks-2>
Final Fantasy Series
Kingdom Hearts
Phoenix Wright
World-Bending Games:
Portal by Valve <http://orange.half-life2.com/portal.html>
Portal in Flash by Armorgames <http://armorgames.com/play/107/portal-the-flash-version>
Shift (Flash) by Armorgames <http://armorgames.com/play/751/shift>
Offshoot (maybe not as good): Walk the Line (for PSP) <http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/playback/playback-week-5/1189001/4>
Narbacular Drop (precursor to Portal) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop>
Super Mario Galaxy
Books
Harry Potter
Strange Matter – A Place to Hide
His Dark Materials (series)
The Dark is Rising Sequence
The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander in general is good)
The Wheel of Time Series
The Chronicles of Narnia
Animorphs
Goosebumps
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Crime and Punishment
The Power of One
The Shadow Children Sequence (Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, Among the Free) – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Running Out of Time – Margaret Peterson Haddix
-Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs <http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html>-
-Numerical Recipes
-Programming the Universe
-Decoding the Universe
-The Elegant Universe
-The Universe Next Door
-Zero
-The Code Book
-Fermat’s Enigma
-Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid)
-PHP 5 Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide – Larry Ullman
-The Art of Problem Solving books
Unread:
Angels and Demons
Paradise Lost
Dune
Angels and Demons
Paradise Lost
Dune
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Firefly TV Series
21
Harry Potter (all movies)
James Bond: Casino Royale. James Bond movies in general.
Master of Disguise
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones (all)
Spiderman (all 3)
Big Fish
The Matrix
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix: Revolutions
Gattaca
300
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Golden Compass
Enchanted
Beowulf
Oceans 12/13
I Am Legend
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Jumper <http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809721624/info>
The Blue Planet (BBC TV series)
Mission: Impossible
MacGyver TV Series
A Beautiful Mind
Aeon Flux
Batman Begins
Batman: The Dark Knight
The Terminator (all movies)
Final Fantasy Advent Children
No Country for Old Men
Pan’s Labyrinth
Supersize Me
Good Will Hunting
The Name of the Rose
Pirates of Silicon Valley
