

Amazingly Funny - take a look what Rumsfeld can do with only two hands
This is a very cool video that makes it appear as though the guys are creating piles of rocks and other structures without even touching them.
Warning: Do not watch this video more than two times in one day. Excess viewing may result in humming the addictive chorus until epilepsy sets in. As music videos go, it is a perfect storm of YouTube popularity--an endlessly catchy tune, a simple yet original execution (how many times did they have to rehearse that eight-treadmilled routine until they got it right in one long take?) and a proud trumpeting of a low-budget ethos.OK Go - Here It Goes AgainOK Go3 min 4 sec - Aug 7, 2006OK Go, Dancing on Treadmills Buy the album at iTunes: http://doiop.com/ohno/itunes More OK Go: http://okgo.net http://myspace.com/okgo (music_video)
Once again The Daily Show hits one out of the ballpark with this piece on the congressional softball league which I remember fondly from a summer internship on the Hill. But like all things in D.C. these days, power and partisanship led the republicans to break from tradition and form their own softball league. But sticking with recent tradition, republicans refused to speak on camera when confronted about their shenanigans and hid behind their lawyers (reminding me of a recent altercation I had with a republican lawyer who chose to hide behind his wife rather than speak to me directly). Or, as Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl poetically put it, they acted like "pussies". Unfortunately, like most things republicans do these days, there are serious consequences to their actions. And it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when Bakkedahl asks a republican operative at the end of the segment if he "would say that [his] decision to storm out in the middle of an interview reflect the general dickishness amongst republicans that's probably responsible for the fact that New Orleans is under water".
lawrence lessig's (founder of the creative commons) brilliant talk about copyright and what needs to be changed and why - highly recommended for anyone interested in (remix) culture. 20' 05'', via google video.
This video left me speechless. It is seriously the most amazing thing I've ever seen and completely worth each and every of its five minutes. "What began as a friendly rivalry between two effects artists explodes off TheForce.Net's FanFilms Forum and into the real world in a lightsaber battle royale. Originally created for the forum's lightsaber choreography competition, this fight to the death will decide once and for all who is truly most skilled with a saber. There can be only one." Higher res version here. (via Rocketboom)