Here’s a fascinating (and long) interview piece with prolific character actor, John Turturo. He talks about his preparations for the Lebowski role six to eight minutes into the piece.

The best pranks are usually too cruel for words. This one, put on by the CollegeHumor crew, is definitely up there. Not only is the subject convinced that his life is about to change forever, but he gets to be humiliated in front of a crowd of 15,000. Pretty epic.

Fun times via this Japanese toy website. (Thanks Nev)

Well, they did it again. YouTube has allowed another copyright attack on another genius Mep video.

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Recent video of Ahnold talking about the need to spice up the way we talk about infrastructure.

To loosely paraphrase, “C’mon! C’mon! We must have the big blockbustah, super powerful, nuclear, gigantic, molecular destructionating of our sewage systems! Get to the choppah! The choppah! I have Supah Powerful bricks with mortah! C’mon! Leesten to me! Leesten!”

Generally, I’m a huge fan of cinema. Then, tonight, I stumbled upon this incredibly captivating amateur video of a camera on a sushi restaurant conveyor belt. No acting, no editing, no production, and yet a remarkably revealing piece. Maybe we’re all just voyeurs who consume anything we’re presented with.

I really get caught up in the relativity of the piece. Are the people moving, or the camera? Yes, we know the actual answer, but functionally either could be true.

It’s a new month, and you know what that means… Only four days to Cinco de Marcho! I was damn near sure I’d made this term up until I googled it and saw the myriad web pages already devoted to said fake holiday. There are too many silly thinkers on the internet, I tells ya.

This is one of the clearest, most entertaining explanations of the credit crisis that I’ve seen this year. Via Daring Fireball.

The original first track of the Beatles’ White Album was leaked on the internet this week by a popular music blog.

This particular version of Revolution 1 features many of the sound effects, loops, and improvs that have previously been associated with Revolution 9.

It’s amazing that something of this quality would sit in obscurity for over 40 years. Be grateful that the internet provides a portal to this sort of lost media treasure:

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Intelligent crank Louis CK, gives us all a reality check on the Late Late Show.

(Thanks to the Factor for pointing this out)