On the Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays

When the subject of "who wrote Shakespeare's plays" comes up, this video is a fair representation of what you're told about the controversy.

The controversy is waved off as merely down to intellectual snobbery - an uneducated man couldn't be the greatest writer of all-time. And just in case you don't find that retort satisfying, well remember that the people who are quick to dismiss any conspiracy theories will also tell you it also doesn't really matter. Well why'd you bring it up at all?

But it isn't intellectual snobbery to think that a man living in the late 1500's, with little or no education, and who owned no books, could have "a profound knowledge of English, Latin, Greek and Italian as well as a deep and wide knowledge of history, mythology and multiple subjects like jurisprudence, military matters, foreign geography, seamanship amongst much else."

In fact, the official story sounds pretty ridiculous, when you really look at it.

Check out "On The Impossibility Of Shakespeare Having Written The Plays" by The Hidden Life is Best.

AVGN - Dragon's Lair Revisited

The Angry Video Game Nerd revisits one of the games from his early episodes: Dragon's Lair. He attempts to get further into the game, and possibly even beat it.

It seems so apparent to me that this game was specifically designed to ruin the lives of children, that I looked up a speedrun to see to what extent a best-case scenario is possible. Here it is:

If Star Wars Had Danger Zone

Star Wars with Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone."

The Charismatic Voice - Virtual Insanity

 

I don't have any real opinions on Jamiroquai one way or the other but it's a nice trip back to the late 90's.

Oh, I do have one opinion, actually. It's amazing to me how all the elements of this video came together perfectly. You don't just have the concept but the "slipperiness" of the floor is combined with a great dancer who can make it amazing. And they didn't just combine the concept and the dancing and say "we'll improvise" - this is meticulously planned and choreographed. And how are we going to hide the edits? It's just in time for early CGI. Everything just comes together perfectly to make a hit video.

Burt Reynolds Made an Album

Sometimes when a celebrity's at the height of fame and fortune, the praise can be so momentous that they're convinced making an album is a good idea.

Such is the case with Burt Reynolds' in 1973 and the resulting album was "Ask Me What I Am." 

It's very much of-its-time, with the Folk-Country talk-singing style. With titles such as:

• The First One That I Lay With
• She's Taken A Gentle Lover
• I Didn't Shake The World Today
• There's A Slight Misunderstanding Between God And Man
• I Like Having You Around

Is it like Neil Diamond? You bet your balls it's like Neil Diamond!

The thing is, though: I don't hate it. It's actually pretty charming. 

For a complete "analysis" of the album check out the podcast "Billion Dollar Record Club" and their episode about it here.

New Glitch Discovered in Super Mario Bros.

 

A new glitch was recently discovered in Super Mario Bros. which allows speedrunners to shave 20 seconds off their time (though pulling it off is very difficult).

This is another video that gets into the nature of the glitch by digging into the programming.