Rulemaking Matters! Video Contest | US EPA

Almost every aspect of our lives is touched by federal regulations. Even before you leave the house in the morning, government regulations help set the price of the coffee you drink, the voltage of electricity your alarm clock uses, and the types of programming allowed on the morning news. But many Americans don't understand how rules are made or how they can get involved in the process.

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We know how rules are made: At random.
And we know how to get involved in the process: Either (a) Get elected, or (b) Be important enough to someone ELSE's election that they'll reward you with a nice cushy appointment to some lucrative regulatory agency.

Did I leave anything out?

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TV Anchor Falls off Chair - CBS Cares

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Wherever a television presenter overbalances and falls off her chair, the Internet is there.

P.S. If you've ever wondered if those people who appear to be in the room behind the anchor are real, wonder no more.

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The Star Wars Opening Crawl Finally Reaches Earth

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Oh, man. I mean, Oh, man!

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Oh, the humanity.

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Chock full of awesome

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Okay, here are the raw facts:
UQAM: University of Quebec at Montreal.
Soundtrack: Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling."
Cast: 172 communications majors.
Takes: ONE.

PLUS: Six more one-take wonders, including That Honda Commercial.

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Breathtaking

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

What'd he say?

I thought I knew this song...

There is nothing like it

What kind of mirror is this?

International Talk Like William Shatner Day

Lessons from Maurice LaMarche.



Extra credit: Practice along with "Rocket Man".

Cheap technology + ingenuity = ...

Pure awesome.

Bwah hah hah hah!

Sometimes you see disaster coming, and sometimes you don't.

When in doubt, kittens

...on a Roomba.

Plagio

This is fun! Well done, Neil!

Plagio ("Plagiarism")


I see "lobotomized monkeys" is on its way to becoming a recurring motif...

This campaign needs some intentional humor

Senator McCain and Senator Obama both appeared at last night's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York. They took the opportunity to let their metaphorical hair down.

Senator McCain, part 1:
"It's gonna be a long, long night at MSNBC if I manage to pull this thing off. I understand that Keith Olbermann has ordered up his very own 'Mission Accomplished' banner."



Senator McCain, part 2:
"Seriously, Chris, if they need any decorating advice on that banner, ask Keith to call me so I can tell him right where to put it."



Senator Obama, part 1:
"What you may not know is that 'Barack' is actually Swahili for 'That One'..."



Senator Obama, part 2:
"...and I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for President."

Phonographantasmascope

I could wish that the explanation were as loud as the music, and the music were as soft as the explanation, but otherwise this is darned hypnotic.



Saw it at Random Good Stuff.

Tilt-shift time-lapse video

If you're not familiar with it, tilt-shift is a selective-focus photographic technique whereby a real city / beach / landscape can be made to look like an incredibly-detailed miniature.


Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Found at Iheartchaos.

"Wait, that doesn't come out"

Not new, but entertaining: "James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff".

What is this "due process" thing all about

Originally uploaded by kdborden86

The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement.

"It is often very difficult, and in some cases, impossible, to provide such direct proof when confronting modern forms of copyright infringement, whether over P2P networks or otherwise; understandably, copyright infringers typically do not keep records of infringement," MPAA attorney Marie L. van Uitert wrote Friday to the federal judge overseeing the Jammie Thomas trial. [Wired]

The theory almost makes sense.

The MPAA... told Judge Davis that peer-to-peer users automatically should be liable for infringement. "The only purpose for placing copyrighted works in the shared folder is, of course, to 'share,' by making those works available to countless other P2P networks," the MPAA wrote.

Saw it at the Consumerist.

You think you're fed up?

You haven't been fed up until you're fed up on live television.