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Got an hour to kill? “Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something” can expand to fill any amount of down time.

Some of the best things I’d not seen:

• George Lucas in Love
• Winnebago Man
• Who Needs a Video?

I’d always figured that the making of hot dogs was one thing better left unseen, but the unsavoriness of the watery “meat” is just incredible.

(via Kottke)

This pool has been around for a while, but it wasn’t until today that I spent over an hour watching them. A worthy distraction.

This is unquestionably the greatest “watch me change over time” video I’ve seen.

(via Heading East)

Also, Kottke points to Dan Hanna’s description of how he took the pictures for the video.

The Wired Science blog has a cool compilation of the relevant Digg bait.

In an ultra-brief profile of the Red Bucket Films collective, I found these sentences:

Red Bucket’s films are both clever and sweet. “I think I’m obsessed with little sadnesses,” Lisenco says. “I think that’s why I get along with Josh so well… . He’s obsessed with minute happinesses.”

Little sadnesses is a great line. And minute happinesses is a good one. This sampling of their films is good too.

A very cool short video from “the Beeb.” My favorite is probably the view of London taxis during a day, but they’re all pretty good visualizations.

(via Gems Sty)

I’m a little disappointed by how obvious all the character choices in this sketch were, but I did laugh a few times anyway.

(via Daring Fireball)

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog is odd. It’s also pretty awesome. Act I went online Tuesday, Act II just went online, and Act III should be up on Saturday. Oh, and if you’re looking for a longer explanation of the project, I suggest this write up from the LA Times’s Web Scout blog.

Perhaps just because I’m a twin — fraternal, if you were wondering — I feel some obligation to link to this Improv Everywhere happening.

In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan got to ask John Lennon a few questions. This year, he made an awesome animation of that event, and put it up on YouTube. (Would we get to see things like this without YouTube?)

(via BuzzFeed)

Austin Kleon is rather excited that Hulu — a synonym for legal, free, ad-supported streaming — now has some Three Stooges episodes. Personally I’ve never much watched the classic, but now I think I mights have to.

For The Atlantic, Gregg Easterbrook will try to scare you about how astroids will kill us. The title links to the video (because I have “reader’s block”), but the text of the story is also online.

Rather than painting on walls, Paul Curtis cleans them.

(via PSFK)

This may be the reason YouTube was invented.

(via Fimoculous)

Weezer’s new music video is chock full of internet memes, and thus must be loved by everyone on the internet. That is all.

(via Waxy)

This very nearly made me cry.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Promising a mass of customers if businesses agree to do environmentally-friendly things. It gives new meaning to that old “voting with your dollars” idea. Also: the more-bloated longer version of the video, and their website.

(via Ze Frank)

I linked to a part of Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns project a few weeks ago, without recognizing it as such. Neatorama has compiled some valuable links to his work, and pointed out the awesome video in the title link. Their summary:

In 2005, Aaron Koblin took all of the air traffic over United States data, as seen by the FAA, and visualized it in a beautiful animation. Aaron’s work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the “Celestial Mechanics” project (eye candy!) by Scott Hesels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA.

Your daily silliness is provided by a video of four-year-olds arguing about the Democratic election.

(via Neatorama)

Also worth watching: The Politics of Preschool.