Virtual Travel: Lonely Planet on the YouTube Train
Maybe Lonely Planet has been feeling a little isolated lately. The travel guide publisher just launched its own video site, Lonelyplanet.tv, and is looking for your videos of excursions far and near.
Of course, to be featured on the Lonely Planet YouTube channel you'll have to compete with a bikini'd man swimming in Antarctica, a "Hills"-worthy tour of Paris and (above) a belly-dancing, ghost-riding cabdriver who confidently declares, "I am not normal."
One bit of advice: Videos of you guzzling cachaça and popping pills in a Brazilian hostel while on assignment, we'd imagine, won't earn you a five-star YouTube rating from LP.
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Here's a scene from the old Japanese kid's show Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus), videos of which that weirdo radio station WFMU is hosting on its blog. Your guess is as good as ours as to why the blue and green rubber blobs are so intent on attacking the nice red octopus mother's baby. See Boing-Boing for a little analysis; it doesn't sound as if knowing Japanese makes it any plainer. WFMU has a total of seven segments to watch and analyze -- there goes Friday morning. 
