Link Banana

Want to send visitors straight to the incessant song in Charlie the Unicorn 2? Now you can:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4#t=3m33s

(via BF)

I was just thinking that all webpages should have a reading view — the way Hulu or YouTube allow you to dim light — and today everyone is talking about this superb-looking bookmarklet.

It has choked on a number of sites I’ve tried it with — spitting out a sidebar, the comments, or in at least one case, the header instead — but when it works it’s pretty good.

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)

The headline may be better than the video, but the video is still good for a laugh.

For a limited time only, you can Google like it’s January 2001. Andy Baio points to a few drastically different searches:

9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this [his] blog

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.

Metafilter user WCityMike put together an exhaustive list of all that is available on the internet related to the “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog” project I mentioned a few weeks ago. Be warned, the list is daunting.

And if you liked Dr. Horrible, haven’t seen it yet, and have at least a vague understanding MMO games like World of Warcraft, you’ll probably like The Guild.

This has been going around for some time, and I never found an hour with which to watch it. Today I finally did, and I’m glad for that. It’s well done, and brings new weight to Robin’s question: “How is YouTube not the greatest art project ever?”

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)

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)

This recent Metafilter post was a great collection of eagle awesomeness (YT are YouTube videos):

Bald Eagle Attacks Swan | Eagle vs Goat [YT] | Eagle vs Fox | Eagle vs Sandhill Crane | Golden Eagle vs Deer [YT] | Eagle vs. Eagle [YT] | Hawk vs Pet Mouse [YT] | Eagles vs Human Children | Eagles vs Our Primitive Ancestors

Rather than painting on walls, Paul Curtis cleans them.

(via PSFK)

For some reason, I’ve watched this video every time it’s shown up in my feedreader (which has been a lot). There’s something great about it.

(originally via Kottke)

Two octogenerians talking about movies? It’s like a longer, more crumudgeonly Siskel and Ebert (or whoever the pair is now). I’m unexpectedly delighted by this.

(via Austin Kleon)

Because I always wondered and never found out for myself: this is what the Chipmunk’s Christmas song sounds like slowed down.

(via Coudal)

It’s today’s entrant for the cool-but-pointless prize.

(via GOOD)

This may be the reason YouTube was invented.

(via Fimoculous)