Category: YouTube Video of the Day
YouTube Video of the Week – Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
This week’s YouTube video of the week is Terry Tate: Office Linebacker. It’s a few years old, but I’d forgotten how good it was, and you might not have seen it, so grab some headphones, hit play and enjoy total enforcement of office rules.
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Dom Joly delivers gadget fakery on a market stall
Electronics retailer Comet is about to start an ad campaign called “A Bluffer’s Guide to Gadgets”, and it’s recruited veteran secret-camera comedian Dom Joly to help. He’s filmed trying to convince the British public that gadgets can do all sorts of insane stuff, like toasting an egg, or putting holograms on your car’s dashboard…
YouTube Video of the Week: Computer history via interpretive dance
Again, not quite on YouTube, but I couldn’t resist this adorable video of pixellated office workers taking you through the history of computing in the form of interpretive dance. The music’s rather charming as well. I think we might have a rival to our very own Tech Trumpet.
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"Deepest ever" living fish has been found and filmed – Celebrity Fish Big Brother reportedly in the works
A team from the UK and Japan has managed to track down and film the deepest ever living fish. They found the 17-strong shoal chillin’ (literally) in a trench in the Pacific, 7.7km down from the surface. One of the scientists, Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen, described the fish as “surprisingly cute”.
YouTube Video of the Week: Lil' Bill O'Reilly
Little Bill O’Reilly Tells It Like It Is – Watch more free videos
Ok, so not strictly from YouTube but a video nonetheless, and a good one at that, as we get another take on that Bill O’Reilly incident courtesy of a rather frighteningly impressive Lil’ Bill…
YouTube Video of the Week: Musical Road
This is a musical road. It’s near Lancaster, California, and was built for an advert. When you drive over the tarmac, it creates harmonics that play a tune. Obviously the faster you drive over it, the faster the song will be. Interesting to see the Doppler effect come into play, though, when other cars drive by.
Oh, and while we’re talking YouTube videos, Shiny Shiny have a brilliant XKCD comic this morning.
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"Astrobiology Rap" commissioned by NASA
So this is where American taxpayer’s cash is going, and why NASA can’t afford to develop a space shuttle replacement. They’re commissioning Welsh students to rap for them. Full credit to the bloke though, he’s actually really good…
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy – Family Guy creator's first AdSense episodes
A few months back when summer had just begun and we were expecting sunshine in the weeks to come – oh those heady days! – Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, announced that he'd agreed with Google to make some animated comedy for the internet steam roller to use in its AdSense campaigns, and look, that's exactly what he's done!
So, here for your enjoyment is the first of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Comedy and this is apparently what really happens at the end of Super Mario Bros…
Reddit send a crowbar, headcrab and Half-Life strategy guide over to CERN
If the turning on of the Large Hadron Collider does trigger some sort of dimensional portal and alien invasion, at least the men and women of CERN will be prepared. Or they will if anyone on their team is as badass as Gordon Freeman…
YouTube Hits: Close lightning strike
Here’s a fantastic short video of lightning striking a beach, tens of metres away from the cameraman. Lightning, as I’m sure you’re all aware, is caused by ice crystals rubbing together and transferring charged particles in storm clouds. What you might not be aware of is that thunder is the sound that lightning strike – the sound of the air along the lightning bolt’s path being instantaneously heated to 30,000°C. Warning: mildly NSFW language…
