I love it when projects go so far beyond beyond what was intended, well beyond where most people would have stopped or lost interest, and in to the land of the absurd and hilarious.
This reminds me of the joy in the fun things I've done just for the sake of taking them as far as they could be taken.
Thanks for sharing.
Edit: his whole channel is awesome, what a great find. He also sorted all of StarWars dialog, manually, as one does:
“This is the Special Edition to troll Han-shot-first purists. Everyone knows the orig is the most legit.”
Someone who really invests in his trollage.
Harder Drive is one of my favorite videos.
his perhaps lesser known, but fantastic and way more interactive creation is his icfpc'06 work, http://www.boundvariable.org/
i don't know of any worthy english-language writeups, perhaps they will be posted in replies to this comment.
What an excellent example of using non-standard formats to explore interesting concepts and be exposed to different ways of thinking. This is what high school should be like. Actually, what am I saying: this is what it feels like to tinker with your pals in high school.
And now I'm looking at SIGBOVIK, Annals of Improbable Research, CMU's "ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL HERESY," the Ig Nobel prize … what a wonderful rabbit trail you've sent me down.
And yes, Tom7 is a frequent contributor :)