Ahh, The Onion…
Columns / Video of the Day
Stephen Colbert on cricket
“All the excitement of a round of golf AND a game of baseball, stretched out over five days…”
Mobile phone evolution: from brick to slick
The evolution of the mobile phone, as demonstrated through the highly under-used medium of babushka doll.
Sarah Palin on Oprah
Go on, you know you want to watch…
A photographer faces off with a deadly predator
An incredible story and images from National Geographic shutterbug Paul Nicklen about a photographic expedition to shoot deadly leopard seals that took an unexpected turn.
The 1987 Dance Aerobics Championships
In their own words: “hot”.
Ambiguous film endings resolved
There’s nothing worse than a film with no closure. College Humour revisits some of cinema’s most ambiguous endings to tie up the loose ends.
Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics
Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world? On the affirmative, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and British MP Ann Widdencombe. On the negative, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry. Let’s get it on!
The future of News: an interview with Rupert
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch sits down with Sky News to discuss Google, paywalls, financial regulations and the future of newspapers. Watch out for his bagging of Mark Scott, public broadcasters and Barack Obama…
Julian Morrow’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture
The Chaser’s Julian Morrow delivers this year’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture, offering a surprisingly witty and insightful take on press freedom, censorship and media ownership.
My boyfriend is the President
No, we don’t get it either … yet we can’t look away:
If Australia was a village
Primary school kids explain what Australia would look like if it was a village of just 100 people. Adorable and informative.
The 1896 Melbourne Cup
Footage from the 1896 Melbourne Cup: slightly fewer drunken women throwing up champagne all over their frocks, but pretty much the same as it is over 100 years later.
Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Poker Face
Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s modern classic Poker Face as it was surely originally intended — as a spoken word piece.
Celebrity vampire reunion
A special Halloween Video of the Day today:
The world’s most famous vampires get together to settle their differences. But can the likes of Count Chockula and Angel ever really see eye-to-eye?
Playing Tetris with Soviet Bloc blocks
Does old Soviet architecture remind you of anything? Animator Sergej Hein says he always saw a giant game of Tetris. And so he made this:
The history of Afghanistan in three minutes
Struggling to follow the ongoing dramas in Afghanistan? Brush up on a few thousand years of Afghan history with the ever-informative and laconic Ze Frank.
Breakfast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
A great time-lapse video of 6000 lucky picnickers descending on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to eat breakfast.
Public Option Annie: an impromptu insurance industry musical
Protestors from Billionaires for Wealthcare interrupt a meeting of insurance lobbyists America’s Health Insurance Plans, which is doing its darndest to stop health care reform — in song!
A is for Atom
A 1950s cartoon about atomic energy, fished from the archives of Bovine University.
[via BoingBoing]
Fiji Meat Man
Apparently this is an actual commercial in Fiji. Better than Sam Neill anyday.
Terry Gilliam interviewed by a cockroach
Nicholas the Talking Cockroach (no, we don’t know either) interviews Python, writer, film maker and all around genius Terry Gilliam, about his fascinating life and career.
C.S.I.R.O!
The hep cats from Sydney University’s Science Revue Society have an entire song and dance number about the CSIRO, to the tune of classic ’90s opus Backstreet’s Back. It’s so charmingly geeky, we couldn’t resist.
[Thanks to Crikey reader El Gibbs for sending this in]
How politics works
The Three Stooges explore the nature of global political discourse.
