Saw this gem on the way to work today.

True, true.

Coldplay’s latest single “Viva La Vida” remixed and mashed up with the “Reading Rainbow” theme song. Seriously its seriously awesomely serious.

http://hypem.com/artist/coldplay++weezer++cut+copy++the+blow++m+i+a+++reading+rainbow

Here I am being a nerd at the May 14th Atlanta ruby on rails meetup, hosted at the ATDC.

Yes, I liveblogged this.  On my macbook.  And only because twitter was down.

/sigh

It’s been a long, long time since a dumb advertisement has actually made me smile. Primarily due to the fact that I probably haven’t heard this song since the 2nd or 3rd grade, to the point that memories of such are nothing but dull vagaries of something familiar and safe. I’m not being afforded anything even so concrete as a specific time or place, just a dull nagging remembrance of childhood.

Of course the part right in the middle with some douchebag shooting a rocket launcher into someone’s house kind of ruins it but the rest was a home run. I won’t get into a whole discussion about how that entire show (future weapons) in no way deserves to be on Discovery’s programming lineup considering how the rest of their shows are dedicated to science, learning, and exploring the natural world — so instead, just enjoy the song. The cameo from a certain ’synthesized’ character near the end just made my day too.

Honestly this is a super-bowl caliber spot they’ve got here. Kudo’s to Discovery and whoever came up with the idea!