The YouTube Jukebox Game

Time for a new game. This one may well be suitable for party's or at least bored parties.

The group decide on a theme and anti-theme, such as War and Peace.
The objective is to play music videos linked by some nugget of information until the original theme goes all the way to the new theme. The link can be session musicians, titles, cover versions, other work, previous bands, etc.

Player one goes to YouTube and selects their favourite music video ( original artist if possible ) based on the initial theme ( such as War by Edwin Star ).
Player two must then make the choice of video, but it must be linked. ( such as 25 Miles by Edwin Star ).

So it goes until one player makes it to the theme of Peace. ( such as Give Peace a Chance by Lennon )... this may take some time but will be an interesting musical journey.

1) War by Edwin Star
2) 25 Miles by Edwin Star (same artist)
3) 2000 Miles by The Pretenders (same subject of miles)
4) Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks (Ray Davies relationship with Christie Hynde)
5) Waterloo Sunset by David Bowie (cover version)
6) Fame by David Bowie (same artist)
7) Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon (Lennon co-wrote Fame)

...done! Player One wins.

The big list - Part 1

I wanted to create a list of links that kind of represent the best of the web. It is neither exhaustive or conclusive, even of just my taste, let alone what could actually be labeled as the 'BEST of the WEB'. Such a term is a bit of hyperbole if I'm honest. In fact, now that they are listed down there aren't that many.

Here are some links that have been whittled down from the thousands in my browser to a few I really like. There are no explanations with them just in case you were thinking of skimming - stop right there. Just go through them one by one...

http://www.ted.com/

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

http://www.merzo.net/

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/imhijinks.php

http://www.insults.net/html/swear/welsh.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html

http://www.calendarzone.com/

http://www.101airborneww2.com/bandofbrothers.html

http://www.deepdyve.com/main

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/the_animals.html

http://www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm

http://weburbanist.com/

http://www.imdb.com/

http://www.hsx.com/

http://www.sutlers.co.uk/index.html

http://www.stephenfry.com/

http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html

http://www.marilynmanson.com/

http://www.snopes.com/

http://www.wisconsindeathtrip.com/

http://ffffound.com/

http://cmart.design.ru/

http://www.explodingdog.com/

http://www.bandofmonkies.org.uk/frameA.htm

http://www.engrish.com/

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/

http://www.coverbrowser.com/

http://flood.firetree.net/

http://twentymajor.net/

The Part 2 of this list may be along shortly but I will stop before scraping the barrel, after all there are other sites dedicated to this kind of thing.

The Infinite Now

Dimensions are means of expressing information about something; we take height, depth, length but we can also add time, weight, spin, orientation or as many as are required to plot what we can know of existence. This full amount of information will represent a single form of reality but because an infinite number of information sets can exist, possibly, within an infinite combination, then we can have an infinite number of realities.

In the same manner that quantum theory has states of reality that 'become' only when observed, so 'Time' is the track of our consciousness as it sifts through infinite realities that then 'become'; moving from the possible to the probable to the actual . However, we must keep in mind that all infinite realities are already in existence in what I think of as 'The Infinite Now'.

A single continuum with a fixed dimension of time means that the future and past exist already, awaiting our arrival, and by the nature of this theory, the future is predetermined. Normally this association of predetermination is unpalatable, it is thought of as meaning that choice is an illusion - I disagree with this interpretation, in that the 'self' that also exists in the future would be making choices as well. It merely states that you have already chosen your future but your 'now-consciousness' will remain unaware of these choices.

The Infinite Now is a little different. As it allows for all possible choices to have been made, there can be no predetermination as all possibilities are equally true in alternate realities. The choice of the self, the aspect of free-will we naturally are drawn to remains intact.

Irrepressible

I like monkeys. I think if you took all the words and conversations I have had and plotted the popular tags Monkey may be at the top.. I'm just guessing there, no research exists to support that.

I'm including most simians in that fan club too. Here are some links...
















...have I just digressed?