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Video of the Day: My boyfriend is the President

No, we don’t get it either … yet we can’t look away:

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Great moments in advertising: Viagra’s 10th birthday

Viagra celebrates 10 years of hard work (boom tish!) with a predictably innuendo-laden ad. It left us a little flaccid at first, but now it’s growing on us…

Video of the Day: One year in: Obama’s own words

It was one year ago today that Barack Obama was elected to the presidency. Now, he rallies the troops, encouraging more community action and engagement with issues. It’s like the campaign never ended!

Video of the Day: 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.

Shocking. Watch punter Kevin go off

The PM was on Shocking in the Melbourne Cup. Which pretty much covers his response.

Video of the Day: 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.

Video of the Day: 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.

Jon Stewart: Fox is “not even close to news”

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart weighs-in on the ongoing stoush between the White House and Fox News, and the network’s own claim that they only broadcast nine hours of actual news per day.

Video of the Day: 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?

Video of the Day: 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:

Video of the Day: 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.

VIDEO: Richard Dawkins on Bill O’Reilly

The first step in having more effective, intelligent public discussion about important issues should be to get rid of unqualified TV hosts like Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, says biologist Richard Dawkins.

Video of the Day: 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.

Video of the Day: 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!

Video of the Day: A is for Atom

A 1950s cartoon about atomic energy, fished from the archives of Bovine University.

[via BoingBoing]

Vale Don Lane

Australian TV great Don Lane has died, age 75. In honour of his memory, a tribute — of sorts — from Paul Hogan.

Video of the Day: Fiji Meat Man

Apparently this is an actual commercial in Fiji. Better than Sam Neill anyday.

Video of the Day: 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.

Video of the Day: 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]

Video of the Day: How politics works

The Three Stooges explore the nature of global political discourse.

Video of the Day: So your cat wants a massage?

It’s time for cat massage!

Video of the Day: Welcome to the most polluted place on earth

Take a trip to the coal-mining town of Linfen in Shanxi Province, China — the single most polluted place on earth. If you haven’t had your “Oh Shit” moment yet, this might just be it.

Video of the Day: Walking 2000 invisible dogs

Pranksters Improv Everywhere hit the streets of Brooklyn with 2000 invisible dogs.

Video of the Day: Creepy cardboard monsters

A lovely (if slightly scary) stop-motion clip from made by Dutch animation student Sjors Vervoot.

Video of the Day: The two births of Kim Jong Il

There are two stories of the birth of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il: the official North Korean government version, and, y’know: the truth. GOOD presents both versions: you can decide which to believe.