On Tuesday, Peter Bradshaw alerted you to possibly the greatest YouTube clip of all time: a countdown from 100 to one made entirely out of classic film clips. Which immediately reminded me of something equally genius/disturbingly obsessive, created by Craig Robinson of flipflopflyin.com. Regular viewers of television - or people who have ever stood at a bus stop in England - may recognise some of his work: he's the man behind the Abba to Zappa cartoons for the Observer Music Magazine. Robinson has basically done the same thing with audio files of classic songs: only this time they're counting upwards. You can listen to it here. In some ways I think it's better, as Robinson has taken a much purer approach - using only snippets of the numbers themselves, making identifying the tracks that much harder.
It's not exactly new, but it's worth a wider audience. And just to keep things topical, what is new is Robinson's rather marvellous Atlas Schmatlas: a spoof guide to the planet from someone who got a D for his geography O-level. I also recommend you bookmark his blog: it's one of the most consistently rewarding on the internet.
