I got rid of the ReCaptcha thing where you had to decipher words from books. Hopefully this will encourage more commenting on news stories! Eh, eh? Aw.

Oh, and thanks to Amy L. Kirner for updating the site’s backend, which means something totally different in web lingo than in comedy lingo.

–Reid.

Better Than The Machine’s video director extraordinaire and good friend Ballard C. Boyd released a new music video today for Kristin Andreassen’s “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color For Your Eyes”. The song itself has already won the John Lennon Songwriting Award, and has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion. It also features animations by Wes Mallgren, another good friend of the group whose animations have augmented tons of our videos.

So what are you even waiting for? Check out the video right now! It’s got breakdancing kids, for the love of Pete! And, boy howdy, do we love Pete.

–Reid.

P.S. As much as I love this video, I can’t help but feel that if Better Than The Machine had anything to do with this, we’d have to call it “Krayola Does Not Feature a Color For An Unspecified Person and/or Animal’s Eyes”.

Howdy Machinerinos!

I hope you’re having a great summer! We’ve been hard at work creating a HUGE load of videos just for you. I even went out to New York City to pitch in! Weekly New Video Mondays will be starting back up soon, and trust me, you’re going to laugh your ass off. As if that’s not enough, we’re also going to have bonus Wiseass Wednesdays (Humpday Hillarity? We’re still working on the name) with a different kind of videos. Shorter. Faster. Stronger. Wait, that might have been the Six Million Dollar Man (Matt Gallo).

Speaking of pitching in, I’ve update the entire website. I would particularly recommend taking a look at the About The Group page. All that show information you keep bugging me to add back to the website has been added back to the website, except BETTER. See? Democracy works.

Finally, BetterThanTheMachine.net will be collaborating with The Outhouse, one of the premier geek websites on the Internet. I do not know why it is called “The Outhouse,” because I personally found it very difficult to find a bathroom on their site. Six Dollar Machine Matt Gallo (you read that right) will be picking videos to post weekly on The Outhouse website; all of you should go check it out and post on their forums about how great we are. Also, you can post about other things, especially if you’re a geek, and deep down, you know you are.

Comics! Video games! Better Than The Machine!

Don’t let the machine get you down,

–Mean Reid Machine.