watch it: “Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm”
Who said science isn’t sexy? I love how TED Talks, too, makes science clever and funny and entertaining. (via Suburban Guerrilla)
web video of the day
watch it: “Tonight’s The Night Doctor Who Scene”
Hey, it’s a holiday weekend on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend — Memorial Day in the U.S. and a bank holiday in the U.K. So here’s a bonus web video for your holiday Sunday. Be warned: the laugh track is painful. Thanks to reader Poly, who was the first one to get word … more…
watch it: “i are cute kitten”
It’s cat-video Friday! The cute is brung.
question of the day: What’s your biggest disappointment of the just-wrapped TV season?
Did you hear about Jimmy Kimmel’s takedown of ABC execs at the ABC “upfronts” — where the networks present their new shows to advertisers — this week. From The New York Times’ Arts Beat: [I]n a “Jerry Maguire”-like moment of clarity, Mr. Kimmel said, “Everything you’re going to hear this week is” nonsense. “Let’s get … more…
watch it: 1950s commercial for Robert Burns cigars
*sigh* And I remember when Grandpa fed me peyote, the most natural high a trusted older loved one can share with a child: Remember: Tuesday is “soylent green day,” and Thursday is “funky old TV commercial” day…
watch it: “Alienated”
Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at Aniboom This is my great fear: that when we meet aliens, they’ll be as boring and as ordinary as humanity.
watch it: “Credit MacDaddy Local Bad Commercial”
This is apparently a real TV commercial: The anti-brilliance of the people who make local television ads is beyond measure.
watch it: the 5/16/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Comprehensive health reform will never happen until the profit motive is removed from health care. And that will never happen as long as the lobbyists of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies have more power than ordinary citizens. So I’m not expecting much from Obama here, never mind Congress.
watch it: “Moo mooing”
It’s cat-video Friday! The cute is brung.
