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Video of the Day: How to make iced tea

Steve Sutton explains how he makes iced tea. Enjoy.

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Video of the Day: Sarah Palin goes to a tea party

Sarah Palin goes rogue at the first ever Tea Party National Convention (and all for the low, low price of $100,000!). Is she gearing up for a presidential run in 2012? Did the crib notes help? Have the lunatics finally taken over the asylum in the U-S-of-A? Is First Dude Todd really pulling all the […]

Video of the Day: Jon Stewart battles Bill O’Reilly

The much anticipated appearance of Jon Stewart on The O’Reilly Factor. Watch as the funny man of the “liberal” media crosses swords with Fox’s favourite conservative.

Video of the Day: Demon sheep haunt Californian politics

Perhaps the oddest political video ever viewed in the Crikey bunker, it includes a man in a pathetic animal costume with demon eyes and criticism of Californian politician Tom Campbell. Ahem.

Video of the Day: Terry Pratchett: Shaking hands with death

In a moving keynote lecture read by his friend Tony Robinson, author and Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry Pratchett makes a plea for the legalisation of euthanasia.

VIDEO: Forget the iPad: projection touchscreens are coming

Regular touchscreens may be the latest fad in computers and mobile phones, but here’s some tech really worth getting excited over: a projection touchscreen that can work on any surface.

Video of the Day: Stephen Colbert has an iPad and you don’t

It’s hard to make pop divas and rappers jealous, but Stephen Colbert managed to by whipping out an Apple iPad at the Grammys as he presented an award. Not even Jay Z had managed to get his hands on one of those.

Video of the Day: Obama goes behind enemy lines

US President Barack Obama paid a guest visit to a House Republican retreat last week, where he engaged in a lengthy Q&A session with his political opponents. He sure didn’t hold back. Here he is taking down Texas congressman Jeb Hensarling:

Video of the Day: News reporting for dummies

Ever noticed how formulaic news reporting is? From the ‘walking through a busy crowd and talking with your hands’ to ‘shots of headless obese people’, Charlie Brooker shows how the news is made.

Video of the Day: Mad TV mocks the iPad… in 2006

The iPad: a name so bad, Mad TV was mocking it four years before it existed.

Video of the Day: Crazy Cash!

Ron Fry is gonna get you through this tough market — that’s scientifickicky!

Video of the Day: Rollicking old time Aussie fun

In honour of Australia Day, a collection of 1960s Australian TV commercials. The good old days when smoking and tanning didn’t kill, only white people existed on television and Graham Kennedy advertised “Fiji: It’s a gay life”.

Video of the Day: Dominating the animal kingdom

In a combination of minor cruelty to animals and a fascinating study of the incredible armadillo, a Japanese TV show sees which animal will walk the maze without knocking down the domino wall surrounding it.

Video of the Day: Obama is not a magic negro

Jon Stewart comes through with the poignant hilarity again, analysing Obama’s first 364 hours and 23 hours in office with some clever scientific calculations. Plus, he helps debunk the Obama is a magic black man myth.

VIDEO: New senator pimps out his daughters

Newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown made his daughters cringe in his victory speech by thanking them, then saying “just in case anybody is watching throughout the country, yes, they’re both available.” Daaaaaad!

Video of the Day: The hip-hop and happening Prince and PM

Cringe alert. Kevin Rudd and our Will, the Prince of Hearts, saw a hip hop crew performance at a homeless shelter in Sydney and could not have looked more awkward. Have the homeless not suffered enough?

Video of the Day: China’s attack on Google explained

Has the whole Google-China thing left you feeling scared, confused and alone? cnet explains exactly what happened and what it all means.

Video of the Day: Mike Rann, a lonely man (allegedly)

Adelaide band Hit By Cars has penned a lovely ode to Mike Rann and his very public (alleged) private life:

Video of the Day: 28 Drinks Later

A nicely done 28 Days Later spoof:

VIDEO: A sneak-peak at Poh’s Kitchen

Love her or loathe her, former MasterChef contestant and amateur culinarian Poh Ling Yeow is being groomed as the ABC’s next big star. Aunty has released a preview of her new show, Poh’s Kitchen, online. What do you reckon?

Video of the Day: Sarah Palin’s Fox News debut

Never has a marriage between a pundit and a TV station been so perfect: watch Sarah Palin as she makes her debut as Fox’s latest “Friend”.

Channel Seven News uses a 2004 Japanese photo in report on Haiti

A Crikey reader writes:
Channel Seven news used the National Geographic picture of a 2004 Japan quake as part of their story this evening on Haiti, four hours after Crikey announced that it had nothing to do with Haiti. Their source? “Twitter”. As in the SMH, the Japanese writing visible on the signs in the background […]

VIDEO: A crash course on Yemen

What did you know about Yemen before a guy with a Yemeni mum tried to blow up an American plane? Al Jazeera shines a spotlight on the country that could be “the next Afghanistan”.

Video of the Day: French Star Wars

Quelle horreur.

Video of the Day: A sneak peek inside the Crikey office

It’s quite hot in Melbourne at the moment, which has made for restless nights with broken air-conditioning and that eternal “sheet or no sheet” question. So today, we bring you a look inside the Crikey office this morning.