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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dEyDpinwY

I swear, that still makes me and I just love the clip of Hank behind the piano playing the guitar,

In memoriam...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5FIoocja4k

"So, Mr Yeltsin. How would you like to be remembered?"

A Dalek and a cyberman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfNfDiqAF9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41r9ZUE3uw

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2003/m_matrix_farts-p1.php?vid=581

Especially "You think that's air you're breathing now?"

Classic.

SoRB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-YpagWemRg

I deserve one of these.

PP

Has anyone posted this one yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs

Bill Gates at an early presentation of Windows 98

Something made me want to witness the 2004 Tsunami again.

This video because of the visible height of the wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ygYqj4rVM

and this video becasue the sheer amount of water that travels in land. And pity the poor person at 2mins.21secs - 2mins.48secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lpIaSraPE

Can't believe I've never seen this Python piece before, the philosophers international football match, Germany v Greece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrShK-NVMIU

Pure genius!

In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web building

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

Some fascinating insights here.

Drugs make you ugly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEFPdNv2Ddk

had me up until Hammock-building.

Same here; I'm ashamed to say it took a while for the penny to drop!

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

"Why don't ya all fffade away?"

got the tip-off from Planet Rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX9qBREGjWN

The Chernobyl disaster.

Vladimir Shevchenko arrived on the scene soon after the accident and took this film. He died soon after.

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

I've occasionally seen documentaries and dramatisations of what happened at Chernobyl. They were moving. That was video horrific, purely because it was so blandly normal. The ruin of the reactor aside - you wouldn't guess the people in that tape and behind the camera were already dead men walking.

yeesh. - gives me the shivers.

Yes the Chernobyl film was very poignant and fascinating...

And now for something completely different. The incomparable genius weirdness of Ivor Cutler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddPuhzt0F4

Ivor Cutler: I never "got" him. And I always had a sneaking suspicion that nobody else did either. Sometimes you watch something and think, "well, that's not for me, but I can see why someone else might like it". Whereas in this case I just think, "you're taking the ****, aren't you?", and a sneaking admiration that a person can pull the wool so comprehensively over so many eyes that he's hailed as a genius.

I dislike him for the same reason I dislike John Cage or Gilbert and George. I cannot escape the feeling that their work, by its defiant meaninglessness, is attempting to ridicule me. If I say I appreciate it, the ridicule is that I am gullible. If I say I don't, the ridicule is that I am uncultured or in some other way unable to appreciate something I'm too obtuse to see.

Well screw that.

SoRB

These guys rock...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcDhD1K0Ak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI5I9GPpcZk&mode=related&search=