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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.

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It certainly makes an interesting mashup.

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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.

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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.”

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You don’t have to agree with Ross Douthat’s politics to agree with his assessment of War, Inc..

The epic battle that accompanies every children’s toy.

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It’s best not to call them all facts, because a lot are just playful space wasters. Still it’s interesting:

6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.

7 How do we know this? German primatologist Dana Pfefferle watched a group of macaques, counting the females’ yells and the males’ pelvic thrusts. She says this work is “quite weird, but it’s science.”

8 Here in the US of A, that kind of stuff ends up on YouTube.

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At first I dismissed this as a poorly produced piece fan-made internet garbage. Now I’ve watched it at least five times and think it’s the best thing I’ve seen in ages. Long live camp.

Also of note, this video provoked what may be the best YouTube comment in history:

This seals it - the internets need to be banned.

EDIT (3/24/2008): I’ve also written a review of the video as it fits into camp. It’s not great, but you might be interested.

This video is very cool.

(via Andrew Sullivan, from whom I shameless stole the title.)

A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart said that he no longer found it possible to hate the president. I agreed then, and I still agree after seeing this. An explanation and more is at The Lede. As it describes the video:

The video is grainy, and Mr. Bush isn’t visible on most of it. But the lyrics, which poke fun at some of the most controversial moments in the Bush administration — the prosecution of vice presidential aide Scooter Libby, the collapse of his nomination of Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, to the Supreme Court — are almost entirely clear, over the laughter.

And what’s more, the structure which looks like a child’s play house, is lived in. And you get a tour from the owner who looks quite normal sized.

(via Mark Larson)

This is very neat little video about how the internet began, and how it’s changed the nature of information. Well worth a look.

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Vulture brings news that The Onion is unveiling a movie, and though they seem to have no idea what the movie will be about, they’re convinced it will be hilarious. Based on the trailer, I don’t find it terribly hard to agree.

This isn’t the most interesting-looking format to see Mr. Bourdain (for that watch No Reservations on the Travel Channel), but it’s a good and funny interview which is well worth a look.

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This is impressive. Though I’m sure linguists and others will quible that some of her accents may be a little off, it’s rather mesmerizing to see a single person do so many accents end to end.

(via Neatorama, whose comments answer your burning question about where Ms. Walker is actually from)

I apologize for posting another kids-being-awesome video, but I just can’t resist.

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I — like you — love and loath that little kid videos are so popular. I still feel obligated to share this one.

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Still disappointed with whats on TV? In steps this excellent show about well, Mark living in Ikea. Mark Malkoff works on The Colbert Report, and also visited 171 Starbucks in 24 hours last summer.

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In an entertaining parody of will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video, the internets are proud to present people you don’t recognize singing along to the uplifting rhetoric of Senator John McCain.

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You’ll probably either find this unbelievably dumb or unbelievably awesome. Michel Gondry, director of Be Kind Rewind and The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, remade the Be Kind Rewind preview as other movies are remade in Be Kind Rewind.

(via Vulture)