Tom Scott

Everything

Some are funny, some aren't. Some are appreciated, some aren't. Either way, here are all the videos, animations and other odd stuff that I've put on the web.

Adventures

• Breaking the News – Matt Gray and I bonehead the budget, in the biggest project we've ever attempted.
• The Webcycle – the faster you pedal, the faster your internet connection goes.
• Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff – b'doom, tssh.
• The Matt Gray High Five Face Off – one man versus his own cardboard cutout.
• You Cannot Remove Your Fingerprints With Pineapple – it's true.
• Talk Like A Pirate Day – the British Headquarters for the glorious day o' pirates, yarr.
• Real Life Mario Kart – Sometimes playing on a screen just isn't enough. With bonus Thwomp Bowling World Championships.
• Mario Kart: The Ride – 4D rides in theme parks ain't got nothin' on us.
• Preparing for Emergencies – From mid-2004: Remember the British Government's terror advice leaflet? This isn't quite it. The British government were "considering legal action" over this at one point, but decided not to after the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC, and a whole lot of other news media got interested...
• Students' Union Induction Talks – in which I dress like a pirate and make the greatest entrance of my life.
• Fun With A Giant Slingshot – an old monitor, a giant slingshot, and ripe fruit.
• Tea Party in a Transit – scones, jam and cream at high speed.
• Tesco Value Spiderman – how much sticky tape does it take to be Peter Parker?
• Timelapse: 1,000 Balloons in 6 Hours, filling a room to a depth of four feet.
• The Fire Jugglers of York – not a joke, just some very impressive people spinning fire round themselves.

Cookery Experiments

• Breakfast: Fortified with Iron – cooking bacon and eggs... with an iron. Featured on BBC One.
• Pastaaaargh – in the same vein, pasta and sauce cooked by kettle.
• Extra Light Pancakes – pancakes cooked using nothing but a big light.
• Salmon in a Dishwasher – is it possible?
• Washing Machine Cookery – mulled wine and scrambled eggs, cooked with an ordinary household washing machine. Badly.
• The 30 Second Bacon Sandwich – Bacon. Bread. And a blowtorch.
• The Ninja Fizz Test – Finding out whether tapping a shaken cola can really stop it exploding. Features me getting sprayed with large amounts of cola. Warning: contains ninja.

Just Comedy

• The Technical Difficulties – it was about time we made a TV show. Coming soon.
• The Coruscant Juggling Club – Jedi jugglers juggling lightsabers, plus other spectacular feats of Force dexterity.
• Be A Safe Ninja This Winter – a PSA for the more stealthy among us.
• Captain Obvious – the titles from the little-known show.
• The Apple i – the product that'll change the world. Probably.
• Guitar Hero: Status Quo – Some jokes never get old. Just like Status Quo.
• Lemmings: The Movie – someday, they'll run out of video games to turn into movies.
• Appalling Visual Puns № 1, № 2, № 3, № 4 and № 5 – surprising amounts of effort for surprisingly bad gags.
• An Extract from the Life of Kings of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill.
• Trapped in Sticker Factory, Send Help – these stickers went all over the world.
• fluBay, for all your antiviral needs.
• Fluffy the Penguin Goes Skiing – I have no idea why this is popular. It shouldn't be, by all rights; it was my first attempt at a proper cartoon in Flash, and it shows. But for some reason, people like it.
• Extortr – It's what Flickr would be if Flickr were evil. Presented at the Paraflows exhibition, Vienna.

Web Stuff and Games

• Real World Racer – a Google Maps racing game.
• The Star Wars Weather Forecast – 'It's like Hoth out here.'
• The Intubator – endless randomly chosen personal videos.
• Smug Kookaburras – the most self-satisfied of all birds.
• The Wisdom of Cameron – where's my million pounds, Dave?
• Shower Shock Super Sing Song Challenge – guess the shower songs, give Tom a cold surprise.
• The Semaphore Ninja – Give him a message, and he will deliver it with honour. And flags.
• The Technical Difficulties – winner of the Kevin Greening Award for Creativity at the 2008 Student Radio Awards.
• Tweleted – recover deleted Tweets for good or evil.
• Camptown News Greasemonkey Script – doo-dah, doo-dah.
• Your Mum News – puerile playground humour.
• Windmap – for kite flyers.

Talks and Writing

• My talk from Thinking Digital 2009 – featuring graphs, Hans Zimmer, Eurovision and a tea cozy.
• Going Viral – how to get ideas out of your head, onto the web, and into other people's heads.
• Recovering Everyone's Deleted Tweets – a 15-minute talk from BarCampLondon6 in which I prank-call a spammer.
• Stories Behind Walls for PBS' Digital Nation.
• Roses 2009 Closing Ceremony – in which I look like a '60s variety act.

Old and Embarrassing

These were made a long time ago, and should really be locked away in a vault somewhere, never to be seen again.

• Humphrey and Duncan – Stop motion animations of an owl, a duck, and some hedgehogs. Possibly the most "cute" thing on the site.
• Bodysailing – I invent a new extreme sport. It doesn't really work. And it hurts.
• The Yahoo Oracle – Yahoo Answers, reincarnated as a mystical oracle.
• Instructions for Entering the United States – A parody of a US government leaflet.
• The Pigeon Street Massacre – Oh dear. This is based on the 80s children's TV series "Pigeon Street", only with a shotgun to shoot the pigeons with.
• Jim'll Fix It Badge Maker – There's comedy potential here. But not much.
• David Blunkett's Blind Panic – Surprisingly, this game isn't really that tasteless at all – although the joke is going to age very quickly indeed.
• Dive! – a tribute to the greatest actor ever.
• Giant Amazonian Duckling vs David Attenborough.
• Am I Brian Blessed or Not? – I'm not sure why I'm proud of this one, but I am. The last level's a bit too difficult, though.
• David Beckham's Penalty Shootout 2004 – it's a quick, cheap joke that hasn't aged well, but it still gets me some rabid emails from Beckham fans.
• Rubber Band Aid – From the "Department of things that I'm almost certainly going to regret doing in a few years' time".
• Tony Blair's Switch Ad – Advertising parodies age quickly; political cartoons more so. So, this joke about the "new iRaq" died very quickly indeed.

TV Stuff

• The Presidential Races – For the end of the 2004 series of Channel 4's Bremner Bird and Fortune, I made a 45-second animation in 48 hours, recasting the US presidential race as an episode of Wacky Races. It got laughs – and in the end that's what counts. For copyright reasons, it's not online.