I haven’t seen the movie or read the comics, but I’m still impressed by this:

Not safe for work:

Pretty fun idea; how long before Lucas (or ThinkGeek) turns this into a real product?

AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.

Twitter: The Criterion Collection from sween on Vimeo.

My favorite is about 01:30 in (this should make clear why if it’s not already).

The latter video has been going around recently, but I prefer the first one.

This is old but good: a five-part animated tragedy set in the Mushroom Kingdom.

This animated excerpt from a lecture by Dan Pink on the nature of motivation is absolutely worth watching:

Dammit, now I feel like I have to watch the whole thing again.

(Spoilers, so you probably shouldn’t play these unless you’ve seen all five seasons.)

I’ve always hated the Death Wish movies, partly because they’re terrible but more because of my suspicion that a significant section of American thinks that it was an accurate portrayal of 1970s and 1980s American cities.

Despite this, I was amused by Charles Bronson Death Wish Bodycount, which is just what it sounds like—a compilation of all the killing Paul Kersey does in the series.

“A Heavy’s 2fort Adventure”: Choose Your Own Adventure crossed with Team Fortress 2 crossed with YouTube.

The voiceover is terrible, but even so, I can’t resist posting this footage of a shark and an octopus fighting.

Update: the embed code was showing the wrong video; this is the link to the right one: Giant Octopus Battles Shark.

They might be aiming at an easy target, but they really nail it:

A particularly inane trope:

In case the point isn’t crystal clear: you can’t do that. There are no image enhancement programs that let you know what the data missing at the point of capture is.
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While reading over some of my morning pages from about ten years ago, I encountered a reference to Evan Mather’s short films, and had no idea who he was, what the films were, or why I might have liked them. It turns out that I was referring to his Kenner action figure Star Wars shorts, which he has up, along with other interesting things, on www.evanmather.com. Godzilla Versus Disco Lando is still just as bizarre as it was back then…

Dubai has released surveillance footage of people allegedly responsible for the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Dubai last month. Threat Level has a good article including the footage and discussion.
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I know I’m something of a Federer partisan, but wow, does this commentator take it to a ridiculous level (note that the translation may not be entirely accurate). There’s some excellent tennis in there too, but the commentary really is amazing.

Slate V came up with this clever clip about what the Super Bowl might look like if famous filmmakers directed it:

Some evidence for that assertion:

There’s also this interactive Flash piece.
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Dodgy misogynistic lyrics, proprietary software—but still absolutely fascinating. Via MetaFilter I found this YouTube video on how to make The Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” using Ableton Live:

Given this, I start to think that the key lyrics are actually “change my pitch up”.

I’d never heard of this before until randomly coming across a Gizmodo post on it. I’m curious about how much postprocessing they did to make it more palatable, but regardless I like the result. Our solar system is into organic dark ambient, apparently.