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OK Go - the band responsible for the treadmill dance video "Here It Goes Again" which was a youtube viral video have created another viral video for the band's new song "This too Shall Pass". "This Too Shall Pass" has been viewed over 300,000 times in less than two days, and according to link-shortening service Bit.ly, the link has been shared over 26,000 times on Facebook.

The video, depicting an elaborate series of chain-reactions known as a Rube Goldberg machine, may be rising in popularity by tapping into a YouTube trend. Rube Goldberg machines, named after the US cartoonist and inventor, are a popular subject of YouTube videos. Users share clips of the best contraptions, often created for real-world competitions, with some clocking up to 1.9 million views online. The four-minute video was shot in one take and took 60 tries to get it right over two days, according to Wired.com.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version

Street fighter Parody comedy scene with Jackie Chan from City Hunter Hong Kong movie. Ryo is thrown into a Street Fighter II arcade game and suffers an electric shock. This causes Ryo to hallucinate, and to his horror Kim becomes Ken, who proceeds to beat him up with hurricane kicks. Ryo then accidentally chooses E. Honda, but was quickly defeated. After E.Honda loses, the Soft-Hard Kids (Eric Kot and Jan Lamb), come to Ryo's aid by turning into Guile and Dhalsim, only to be blown away by a Hadouken.

The Australian Government is officially switching off the analogue signal in Australia by the end of 2013. The offical timetable for the switchover to digital television with the Victorian town of Mildura set to be switched over from analogue TV to digital in the first half of 2010. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and remote western, central and eastern Australia will be digital-only by the end of 2013. So between now and 2013 tv analogue signals are being switched off and so its time to buy those new LCD/plasma screens with inbuilt digital tuners or just buy a digital tuner box.

I'm into cycling... but this is nuts... you have got to watch this video (even if you aren't into cycling:

Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009 - Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill (more info at www.dannymacaskill.com) features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding ever seen.

Hmm... In this video Smallville Superman parody someone cut and pasted Tom Welling's face (Clark from Smallville) over Christopher Reeve's body!

In this next video... A really random edit fan video for Smallville... Starts off ok... When is Clark going to ditch the red-blue-blur and turn into Superman???

Michael Jordan - Failure Nike Advertisement - "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Strange annoying advertising by Head On. What advertising agency commissioned this really annoying advertisement? But it is effective...

Original Head On Advertisement:

If you’re a fan of TV, especially Sci-Fi, you must watch Twilight Zone – the original series which ran from 1960 to 1964. The series, created by Rod Serling is a TV masterpiece with its unique storylines and plots. You would have been exposed to the magic of the Twilight Zone even if you’ve never watched the series as it has influenced and been referenced countless times in many sci-fi and mainstream shows and movies. The name itself is synonymous with the idea of weird and odd things happening to you.

The Twilight Zone formula works like this: unlike a sitcom with a running theme which continues every week, the show tells a strange tale every week. If you haven’t been watching, go look it up in YouTube or CBS which host full episodes for you to watch Twilight Zone online. Or you can go to your local library and borrow the DVDs. The show also had a movie released back in the 1980’s, had two revivals and a copy cat show called The Outer Limits. The guest stars in the show include a very young William Shatner, Robert Redford, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds and many others you may recognize if you’ve watched TV shows like Bewitched, I dream of Jeanie or Batman.

Yes, most of us are guilty of doing this: SMS texting whilst driving. (Or updating FB status, tweeting) In the PSA (public Service Announcement) video above created by went Police Department in Wales, they wanted to create a viral video which was graphic and violent in nature to grab people's attention as to what could happen if things do go wrong.

Twilight Zone rocks! I was watching episode #91 "Little Girl Lost" (1962) and the story seemed very familiar. Why? The Simpsons parodied (or rather stole the plot line... much like how Family Guy rips off Simpsons). Little Girl Lost was parodied in Season 7 episode 6 (706), a segment of the annual Treehouse of Horror VI: Homer3. Homer does throw a reference to the Twilight Zone as he sticks his hand into the wall: "That's weird. It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone." However, instead of recovering a lost girl in the 4th dimension, Homer (the 2D character) and later Bart fall into the 3rd dimension.

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI: Homer3

I'm a big Sci-Fi fan. A follower of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis as well as the whole reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. Ever since the latter finished, I've been looking for something sci-fi to watch - so I started watching the original Twilight Zone made back in the 1960s. I've been watching these for a month now and I'm up to episode 73 I think... Shot in classic black and white, most of the episodes have very original story lines. Every episode is a self-contained story about some strange occurrences which happen when someone steps into the Twilight Zone. There are a few episodes which have plots which are familiar - either they've been parodied on The Simpsons (or siilar show) or reworked into a film...

The episode below is really good. The Twilight Zone - Two: Season 3, Episode 1. Episode 066 (66) Original Air Date: 15 September 1961. It stars Charles Bronson as the Man and Elizabeth Montgomery as the Woman. Yes the woman who played the witch (Samantha Stephens) in Bewitched. And yes that guy from The Magnificent Seven.

Can't wait until this series actually gets started. I'm desperate for new Sci-Fi TV to watch! So much so I've restored to watching the original series of Twilight zone. Stargate Universe is scheduled to start in Fall 2009. October 2 on the Syfy (SciFi) Channel. 6 guys to 3 women ratio in the main cast ensemble, has there ever been a stargate series with a 1:1 ratio for men to women? Stargate Atlantis had 4:2 and Stargate SG-1 had 4 to 1 or 3 to 1 depending on how you count it. Hmmm...

Is Ghost World a chick flick? No. It's a film about chicks though. One in particular most men would know about: Scarlett Johansson. I'm not a real big fan of these sort of films. It's like Juno, where the film is told in the point of view of one of the characters, and just follows them like a documentary of their life. But its also one of those movies you don't really take at face value to fully appreciate the story and motives behind the writing. Anyway, I'm not going to review the film at all or spoil anything here besides saying that Ghost World worth watching.

Want to know what movies would be best for a date? What are those flicks that could give you and your date a good time that would result to a second or even successive dates? See the list below and watch the Best Teenage Date Movies ever made.

• 10 things I hate About You (1999)
• Bring It On (2000)
• A Walk to Remember (2002)
• I know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
• Juno (2007)
• Jawbreaker (1998)
• Never Been Kissed (1999)
• She's All That (1998)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

The first teenage date movie is 10 Things I Hate About You is about a high school newcomer Cameron James, and his pursuit of Bianca, the girl of his dreams. His plans are thwarted when he finds out he cannot date Bianca until her older sister, the social outcast Kat, has a boyfriend. This teenage date movie stars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik. 10 Things I Hate About you is a witty high school re-telling of the Taming of the Shrew. Pure of heart and perfectly executed.

The clip above is a scene taken from the funny movie American Pie. This sexy teenage movie is all about libidos and those stuff filled with tons of bloopers from awkward teenagers. Another sexy movie is the American Beauty, all about lust and harsh truths of life. As seen in youtube video below, even an established man could not resist the sex appeal of a young woman and how our minds play imaginations.