The only known footage of famous teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank has been posted on YouTube, depicting eerily happier times only a year before she went into hiding.
How do the characters on Mad Men spend so much of their work-day drinking booze and still get any work done? The ladies of Double X try it and see — all in the name of science, of course.
A diverse group of musicians and celebrities have lent their voices to a cover of Midnight Oil’s classic ‘Beds are Burning’ in a musical petition calling for “climate justice” at Copenhagen.
Watch as President Hu Jintao passes rows and rows of Chinese troops of equal height. The pan-in across Tiananmen Square at the start is particularly spectacular:
What you’re not seeing is protest. And with good reason. Chinese authorities moved petitioners back to their home towns ahead of the celebrations:
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Former NYT journo Gay Talese recalls the alcohol-fuelled newsrooms of yore, which he claims made the characters on Mad Men look like amateurs. But did a diet of booze and smokes really make for more creative writers?
You might think a cashew nut’s a nut. But it’s not. Coconut? Nope. Brazil Nut? Heck, it’s only a seed. RatherGood educates in a song, so you’ll never call an almond a nut again.
VIDEO: The great pacific garbage patchDeep in the North Pacific Ocean, there is a garbage patch twice the size of Texas, with 36-to-1 ratio of plastic to plankton. Mother Jones sets sail with the scientists studying the mess.
Oscar Meyer wieners come 10 to a pack. Wonder Bread hot dog buns come eight to a pack. Can the two companies ever agree on a common number for each package?
Conservative Republican Tom “Hammer” DeLay used to be known as the “meanest man in Congress”, says Maureen Dowd. Now he’s a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. And, um, pretty flamboyant.
Sydneysiders woke up to red skies this morning due to a dust storm sweeping NSW. But that’s are nothing compared with this footage from Broken Hill yesterday: watch as the picture fades to black.
Pride in your product is important for any business, but Apple’s bosses seem to not only have drunk their own Kool-Aid, they’re mainlining it on an IV drip. A montage of the company’s recent keynote address. See if you can pick up on a theme.
Bill Clinton talks Obama, healthcare reform and going 007 in North Korea in this full, unedited version of his interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Lots of stretching, bouncing and pulling of flour? With a kinda annoying host and tasty looking results? Why, it’s a chef demonstrating Chinese noodles being made by hand!
YouTube Australia has released its latest user research as a YouTube video (see what they did there?). So just who’s watching? You.
In the latest in its series on workplace environments, Cubez, The Big Money goes to the Marvel offices. Visit the merchandise room, the Marvel comic wall and meet the Incredible Hulk.
What else to open the 5th Typophile Film Festival but a stop motion homage to typography that’s so good you could eat it. Includes letter soup and licorice all-fonts.
Replicating the classic Stanford experiment from the 1960s, some kids can handle sweet temptation better than others. Who knew marshmallows smelt so good?
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