No, we don’t get it either … yet we can’t look away:
Primary school kids explain what Australia would look like if it was a village of just 100 people. Adorable and informative.
The PM was on Shocking in the Melbourne Cup. Which pretty much covers his response.
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 modern classic Poker Face as it was surely originally intended — as a spoken word piece.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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.
A great time-lapse video of 6000 lucky picnickers descending on the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday to eat breakfast.
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 1950s cartoon about atomic energy, fished from the archives of Bovine University.
[via BoingBoing]
Australian TV great Don Lane has died, age 75. In honour of his memory, a tribute — of sorts — from Paul Hogan.
Apparently this is an actual commercial in Fiji. Better than Sam Neill anyday.
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.
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]
The Three Stooges explore the nature of global political discourse.
It’s time for cat massage!
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.
Pranksters Improv Everywhere hit the streets of Brooklyn with 2000 invisible dogs.
A lovely (if slightly scary) stop-motion clip from made by Dutch animation student Sjors Vervoot.
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.