Everything about this song and video is just wonderful…

Eric Wareheim makes some awesomely unique music videos.

I decided to check out Eric’s YouTube channel during a moment of boredom while at home during the weekend, and there was a brand new video for a “noise rock” band called HEALTH from LA. The video is for their song “We Are Water”. I’ve never heard of the band before, but I’m definitely not mad at this introduction.

Straying far away from his usual colorful-retro-awkward-lo-fi style in his videos, “We Are Water” was given a straight up bloody, morbid, and horrific treatment. Listening to the song, that’s exactly what was called for so don’t be mad if you were expecting this one to be at all funny, although I’ll admit it still retains some silliness.

I was left with my jaw on the floor when this one finished… and I loved it. The actress’ performance in this video is as near to perfect as it could have been in my opinion. I’ve watched it a dozen times now and not an drop of the raw emotion I felt the first time has gone missing.

Enjoy:

I get chills/goosebumps/hairs-standing-on-end at her moment of triumph… every. single. time.

Ok, so let’s never mind the politics; never mind the issues; never mind the BULLOCKS. Forget about all that crap for a second.

In contrast to previous POTUS‘s (especially one in particular), Barack Obama is just a plain ol’ cool dude. A prime example may be when he’s playing a friendly game of HORSE.

Recently, Obama did just that with 1982 Big Ten MVP Clark Kellogg, except instead of HORSE, they played POTUS (see what they did there?). I embedded the whole video below, but if you want to skip ahead to the good part go to about 3 minutes 50 seconds. That’ll lead you in at a point where you’ll have enough context to know what’s going on. Pay attention as Obama shoots a pretty deep 3 at 3:58:

Yeah, he said “whap”. While the shot was still in the air. Because he knew it was going in. And he’s the POTUS. Freaking hilarious.

I’m totes enjoying having a President with some real swagger.

(via whitehouse.gov)

I’m not much of a book reader.  I’m a feed reader.

For feed readers, a good app to read those feeds is essential. So, I just switched from Google Reader to Feverº as my reader app. It’s exactly what I needed since I subscribe to over 200 feeds (and growing), of which about 10% of those are most important to me. My All Items unread count in Google Reader was consistently saying “1000+”, so Feverº is perfect for me and I’m liking it a lot.

However, one small thing I don’t like about Feverº is how much whitespace there is in the interface. Space that could be used for the actual feed content. The left side has a gutter of about 70px, and there’s space between the groups, feeds, and content columns that could be salvaged.

Luckily, I can create a userscript to fix this, which I have done, and now I’d like to share it with anyone who might like it.

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