h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can't believe this escaped my notice.

It's called Hyperland, by Douglas Adams from 1990, about the future of communications on an interwebs.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7190175107515525470

That's fascinating. Downloading it immediately.

Also - a very lovingly rendered examination of Who Would Win Out Of A Fight Between The Enterprise And An Imperial Star Destroyer.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ijDlbvAxw

Can't afford a steady-cam? get a chicken

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc

Man bras take Japan by storm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cke2nCp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qTarQaUlqM

Neil Shubbin, author of 'Your Inner Fish' and discover of the transitional fossil Tiktaalik gives a lecture of the discovery of fossilised remains that demonstrates how lobe fish and tetrapods are related.

Pete Drake shows Peter Frampton how it's done. As one of the comments says, it does look a little like a David Lynch set.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t4h7mo2RRCo

Alien-like squid with elbows found at oil-drilling site

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html

A propos of the 118118 service

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/26/muslim-student-sent-racist-jokes-by-118-118-joke-service-115875-20926075/

The Monty Python gang now have their own youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/montypython?ob=4

Coffee in space, and a lesson about surface tension

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=268_1227596285

That's great, Christopher - except for the bit of hype at "to the last drop" bit... the angle at base to sides says otherwise!

I've gone viral! A week ago I did a simple overdub to footage of a strutting lizard - just now I found it linked to again, having had almost 200,000 views.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3l94S1yDJEE

Click on my username "brokenscience" for a re-dub of Noddy that took a heck of a lot more effort than the lizard, and Ed The Bonobo campaigning for Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak1oWo8Yosc

"it may make my soul howl in agony" - Brilliant!

Viva tripudio or 'a phd thesis in the form of interpretative dance.

Using classical ballet and highly kinetic party dancing to interpret her Ph.D. thesis, "The role of vitamin D in beta-cell function" while the Nutcracker Suite lilts in the background, Lau, a graduate student from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, appears as the Sugarplum Fairy, delivering marshmallow glucose to four beta cell dancers. Meanwhile, a fifth dancer flings and twirls around the stage representing the sunlight required for vitamin D biosynthesis.

Made me smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTFBRPFRh8

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.

The ultimate, live-action, version of an internet phenomenon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXJnOjAGR24

Faux News (again)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw

Schadenfreude (n) 'pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune'

It's the moments when the other panellists just gawk, snigger or ridcule that make this the fascinating slow-motion-car crash that it is.

Boots Secret Santa parody

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f--VIU4Nl3E

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgPnF_juQE