http://melaniedejonge.com Melanie - Tech Blogger | Music Blogger | Girl Blogger | Life Blogger Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:07:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This series of videos, Target Women, were brought to my attention by college roomie Evelyn. And they are AWESOME! Sarah Haskins does a segment on InfoMania, which you can watch Current Thursday nights at 10 pm. There’s about forty in the series, but here are four of my favorite: The first, the classic, the original [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/snark-marketing-snarketing-target-women-hilarious This is my favorite of the PS22 Chorus videos.  And I don’t even like Coldplay!  In fact, I like the PS22 version of this song quite a bit better than the original. Enjoy! ]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/ps22-chorus-viva-la-vida-by-coldplay This is the IBM 305 RAMAC, the very first computer to contain a hard disc drive.  It weighed over a ton and stored….WAIT FOR IT…5 MBs OF DATA!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me? I have a flash drive smaller than my thumb that holds 8 GBs. For those of us doing math, that’s 1,600 times as much data. I’ll wait [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/amazing-1950s-computer-harddrive-weighs-over-a-ton Here’s what was the top story on Buzz when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning - And here was the news when I searched Google News - The lesson?  Crowdsourced news can bring interesting things to the forefront, but not all of it will be true! Bill Cosby US $5.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Mar-18-2010 17:53:45 PDTBid [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/bill-cosbys-not-dead-dont-believe-everything-you-read-on-yahoo-buzz One of the greatest scenes from one of the most underrated movies of all times, Outside Providence.  Just like this scene, the movie itself works on so many levels.  It’s also one of Alec Baldwin’s most memorable performances, as Old Man Dunphy.  It’s just a fantastic, fantasic movie.  If you haven’t seen it, seek it [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/drugs-delaneys-letter-to-dunph-from-outside-providence I love people who are passionate about their projects, and that definitely describes Caitlin Crosby’s three year quest to record the footage for the following video, and create it. Caitlin (along with actress Brie Larson) is the driving force behind LoveYourFlawz.com, a budding movement to promote body image celebration, not just among teenage girls as such [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/caitlin-crosbys-awesome-embrace-your-flawz-video OK, here is a bizarre (and also inspiring!) thing that happened to my friend Jeannie and a project of hers, The Prayer Box Project.  Yes All In Caps.  Deal With It. She had an idea to put a prayer box at the top of this popular hiking place here in LA, Runyon Canyon.  It’s [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/jeannie-mai-and-the-great-prayer-box-mystery I tool this the other day while I was trying to wake that sleepyhead up!   Then, of course, there’s the added cuteness of THE TONGUE: ]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/hercules-has-the-best-face I have searched through YouTube to find the best copies of every single song, in order, that comprise The Last Five Years. When possible, they are the original Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott versions. Enjoy! Playbill The Last 5 Years concert Version Five Kennedy US $7.98 End Date: Sunday Apr-11-2010 10:16:26 PDTBuy [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/the-last-five-years-by-jason-robert-brown-on-video It’s pre-sliced red apples with Walden Farms calorie-free caramel dip. MMMMMMM…so good. And let’s just take a moment to absorb that little descriptor there. CALORIE-FRICKIN-FREE!!!!!!! No calories. Zero. None. Zippo. The big zilch. And, yes. That’s an XS in the background. I’m in heaven! walden farms [...]]]> http://melaniedejonge.com/say-hello-to-my-new-favorite-snack-in-the-entire-world