William M. Hartnett

Particularly the last 1:09. How hilarious is it when, after circling the set, DOR emerges from the side door, still ranting like a nutter?

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Richard and Judy deal with a random caller. (No, the audio is not real.) “Uhhh, it’s a falcon Richard.”

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>French Train Breaks Rail Speed Record (NYT)
Freedom, French … whatever. The point is that really fast trains, much like lolcats, Karl Pilkington and commercial airplanes, are totally awesome.

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Remember what I said about the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner? And vomit? Of course you do, you’re a loyal reader. In case you missed the take of a slightly more obscure source, The Daily Show, here it is:

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The first outtakes episode is my favorite installment of onBeing so far. As the proprietor of this here web site (or feed, depending on your Hartnett intake preference), I’m making it mandatory that you go watch the clip immediately.

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As I am, officially, the last person to catch on to the latest viral video crazes, I only recently came across the wonder of Flea Market Montgomery. I’m not ready to declare it superior to the Bjork, Spike Jonze, dancing cat video, but it is, in my estimation, a very close second. (Props to my [...]

A bit of Bjork. The best bit starts with 1:15 remaining.

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Ah, the thousands of little treasures on YouTube. I don’t know how I managed to miss this one for so long: U2 with Arcade Fire covering Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in November 2005. The video quality is a bit crap, particularly the first 30 or 40 seconds, but so what? It’s brilliant. [...]

>Nintendo’s Wii pushes players into mini-workout (LA Times)
(Via my brother)
I’m ashamed to admit that my right arm felt like jelly the day after playing Wii Sports for the first time. I don’t know if the fact that I managed to more than double my best real-world bowling score makes that fact less or much, much [...]

>Chelsea FC strike YouTube deal (The Guardian)
I think this means I’ll soon be able to watch my favorite clips of Andriy Shevchenko not scoring without fear of copyright infringement. I’m afraid I’ll need subtitles to understand ol’ Billy, however:

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