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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)

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.

This has been making the rounds, I’m surprised how much I liked it.

This is cool. Also available in slow-motion. If you’re curious, it’s brakes failed and engineers couldn’t figure out how to save it.

(via MetaFilter)

It certainly makes an interesting mashup.

(via Douthat)

Earlier this week, We Made This heaped praise on the internet’s favorite celebrity tech enthusiast’s search for the Gutenberg press, and made me green with envy. Now it’s available on YouTube, though I have no idea how long that will last.

(via Textism)

I find this impossible to accept even if it’s been speculated about for a month. I think I’ll become a conspiracy theorist.

Drum roll, please: The creators of the McCain Girls turn out to be the comedy team behind 23/6, a five-month-old Web site owned by an affiliate of IAC/InterActiveCorp that parodies the news. The site, at 236.com, uses the motto “Some of the news, most of the time.”

(via MeFi)