It’s the video everyone is talking about: a campaign by the charity Invisible Children to raise awareness of Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony and the use of child soldiers. Watch it — but then also read all about how “The organisation behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady non-profit that has been called “misleading”, “naive”, and “dangerous” […]
Columns / Video of the Day
What’s so super about Super Tuesday?
There’s no doubt Super Tuesday will have a huge influence on the Republican primaries, but it isn’t as super as it used to be. Slate presents a quick history, canvassing Super Tuesday’s influence over the past 12 years.
The stories of Syrian refugees in Jordan
Many Syrians are crossing the border to Jordan to escape the violence and bedlam in their home country. A group of refugees share their stories — and their mobile phone footage — with Time.
Creepy senate candidate and his five-year-old son
A senate candidate who has been campaigning with his five-year-old son cranked up the creepy factor to 11 in this bizarre Fox News interview in which his lips appear to move at the same time as his child’s …
The Guardian’s three little pigs promo
If the story of the three little pigs played out in real life, how would it be reported? How might the public react? This rousingly innovative ad for The Guardian has some answers.
The James Murdoch getting grilled highlight reel
News International’s phone-hacking scandal has claimed another scalp and this time it’s in the family: executive chairman James Murdoch. Now that Jim has fallen on his sword, it’s time to open the family album and watch a highlight reel of his appearance at the phone-hacking Commons inquiry.
Jon Stewart on Barack ‘Snobama’
Comedian Jon Stewart was given a bounty of material to work with after Rick Santorum labelled Barack Obama a snob for — gasp! — wanting all Americans to go to college.
Sacha Baron Cohen spills Kim Jong-il’s ‘ashes’
This year the Academy banned rabble-rousing comedian Sacha Baron Cohen from attending the Oscars ceremony, concerned he might interrupt proceedings. Their concerns were vindicated after this amusing interaction between Cohen, in character from his latest film The Dictator, spilt what he claimed to be Kim Jong-il’s ashes over entertainment reporter Ryan Seacrest.
Gillard’s decisive victory
At around 11.15am this morning returning officer Chris Hayes announced that Julia Gillard will remain Prime Minister, comprehensively defeating Kevin Rudd’s leadership challenge.
Video of the Day: Rudd’s ‘people power’ as bloodletting continues
Within 30 minutes of returning to Australia, Kevin “24/7” Rudd delivered a presser at Brisbane Airport, calling for supporters to telephone their local member in a demonstration of “people power”. On the way out he bumped into one loyal supporting dressed in a Kevin 07 T-shirt.
Gillard calls for caucus vote
“Government is about more than electioneering,” Julia Gillard said in a delayed press conference this morning in which she declared a caucus vote on the ALP leadership next week.
Chilling amateur video of Challenger tragedy
Twenty-five years after the Challenger shuttle tragedy killed seven astronauts, a rare amateur video recording of the event has surfaced depicting naive onlookers watching 80 kilometres from the launch site.
Proof Obama is possessed by a reptilian alien
In the school of bat country crazy, this American “analyst” graduates with flying colours. Tune into her commentary — replete with photographic evidence — explaining that Barack Obama has been possessed by a reptilian alien. “This is our tax dollars at work. Implanting our president,” she says.
The complete K-Rudd swearing video (maybe)
One of the questions that arose from the latest episode of Adventures in ALP Wonderland was: what happened to the original, unedited Kevin Rudd “Happy Little Vegemite” video? We’re almost certain this isn’t it …
How to look like Ryan Gosling
It won’t work for everybody, but it certainly works for this chap. Here is your how-to guide for looking and sounding like Ryan Gosling.
Introducing ROMBO c/o Rick Santorum
Mitt Romney (aka ROMBO) is an armed and dangerous maniac carelessly firing mud at the angelic Rick Santorum. At least, according to Santorum’s latest campaign ad …
The pomp of Pete’s parliamentary parade
It was a slow-moving, sparsely populated parade — but a Peter Slipper-inspired parade nonetheless:
Hearing is believing — deaf in the US military
American Keith Nolan long aspired to join the US military but, being deaf, he was automatically disqualified. In this talk for TD TV, Nolan explains his uphill battle to fight for Uncle Sam.
Whitney’s 1991 Super Bowl anthem
The clock may have to be rewound considerably to experience the full force of it, but there’s no doubt the late Whitney Houston’s vowel-devouring, stadium-filling voice could rouse a crowd, evidenced by this footage of her 1991 Super Bowl gig.
Say goodbye to coal power stations
A brilliant ad from a UK green electricity company, which demonstrates the sad but inevitable end to cooling towers.
Obama shoots marshmallows from a cannon
At the White House Science Fair, US President Barack Obama met a year eight kid who had built an air cannon that shoots marshmallows. Of course, Obama had to give it a go …
Slippery Pete’s new vodcast
Speaker Peter Slipper kicked off the first day of sitting Parliament for the year with a brand spankin’ new vodcast. Stay tuned to Slipper’s YouTube channel for the latest nail-biting updates.
TV stars’ Super Bowl sing-a-long
Almost 100 NBC stars, led by Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, congregated for an infectious four-minute Super Bowl promo set to a show-stopping musical number from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Chevy’s crowdsourced Super Bowl ad
Chevy ran a crowd-sourcing competition to design its Super Bowl ad, with 26-year-old Zack Borst winning $25,000 for his entry. There’s several amusing Super Bowl ads floating around today, but this is our pick for the funniest.
Bernard Keane’s month in politics
Welcome to Bernard Keane’s political analysis of the last month in Australian politics, now with added video. This is a new monthly series (catchy name suggestions welcome), with the January edition kicking off with a discussion of the car industry, trust in politics and the Australia Day Tent Embassy shemozzle.
