The video shows a bunch of people apparently randomly starting to dance as Do Re Mi from the Sound of Music starts playing over the loudspeaker. It was apparently a publicity stunt for a Belgian reality show. It’s a brilliantly executed video, funny, and amazing to watch.

It’s not the first commercial done like this. There was a T-Mobile ad in London, also done live at the station.

There’s also clearly some shared inspiration from the stunts done by Improv Everywhere. Looks like this stunt at Grand Central was their most famous one:

It’s been fun checking these out. Does anyone know which reality show the Belgian one was promoting? Can’t find it online so far.

(Found via los anjalis)

Update: Ah, found it. It’s called Op zoek naar Maria (looking for Maria) and was in the title of the YouTube page. I just didn’t know what that meant, it being in Dutch and all.

In case you missed it, Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, American Psycho) flipped out at the director of photography while filming Terminator 4 Salvation. Audio leaked out and has been rounding the Internet for a few days. Well, The Mae Shi decided to create a song around it. The video above has the song.

Be warned: it contains a very angry Christian Bale using very strong language… very loudly.

But, boy is it funny.

(via Brea Grant’s Twitter stream)

From Aaron Sorkin: Obama asks Bartlet for advice.

One of my favorite afternoon cartoons ever, and I’m not afraid to admit that I watched this in high school and even college. The video above is “Yakko’s World” where Yakko goes through naming all the countries in the world. I had to post this after I heard it today when I had my iTunes on a full shuffle of the entire library. Yes, I own two (2!) Animaniacs albums. Still have the CDs, too.

Here’s Wakko doing all of the capitals in the United States:

I used to be able to sing both songs without missing a country or capital. I wonder if that makes me qualified to run for VP?

You can still get the Animaniacs Album with both songs at Amazon. You KNOW you want it.

OK, this made me laugh. Another problem with having largely monochromatic backgrounds on a giant screen behind you during a speech. Especially since those backgrounds were reportedly there because your staff couldn’t figure out the difference between Walter Reed Middle School and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

(and if you don’t get the headline or the Rick Astley selection, wikipedia to the rescue!

(via Pandagon)

Yes, I can think of more important things in the world, but this just makes me laugh.

This is a serious time, for serious candidates and the best McCain could do is a woman uninterested in the big job, from a small state with very little experience with a diverse population, who’s under investigation for abusing her power as Governor.

Seriously, WTF was McCain thinking?

This clip has been making the rounds on the Internet, so odds are you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should watch it, preferably in HD at Vimeo. At the very least, click the title of this post to see it full size.

The premise is simple: Matthew Harding took a trip to 42 countries to film short clips of him doing a silly dance, sometimes alone, sometimes with lots of local folks, often in beautiful locations. The result is this 4:28 video.

I’m proud to share the fact that this guy is from Connecticut. They don’t call us nutmeggers for nothing.

Update: The song is (called Praan) is available at Amazon’s MP3 store. The web site for the project is, appropriately, wherethehellismatt.com, where there are more videos and maps.

Via The Big Picture, we find this funny cartoon:

Then ask yourself whether I’d happily vote for someone who states, boldy, that she won’t side with economists (on an issue about the economy!!!@#$@#$) because they are “elitist.” To quote the great Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” sigh.

Funniest thing I’ve read today, in a comment by tastypopsicle attached to this post at Ajaxian:

Here’s my Browser Political Platform:

IE 6 = Bush (Everyone, even MS fans can’t wait for it to die)

IE 7 = McCain (Still in the party but at least it’s not IE 6)

Firefox = Clinton (Everyone loved it because it wasn’t IE 6. Now it’s just bloated and runs slow.)

Webkit [Safari] = Obama (Oh, it’s slick and on all the toys the cool kids use. It’s even pulling in independents like Google. It still has a lot to prove.)

Opera = Nadar (It has all the right answers and people really should embrace it. But there’s just too many crazy zealots supporting it to get it widely adopted.)

Come on, it’s geeky but funny, too! Anything that combines my two passions is alright by me.

Guys, if you’re going to back out of marrying a woman, the polite thing to do is to make your decision known before you’re both standing at the altar.

Try to guess what song it is before he tells you halfway through.

(via Boing Boing)

Friend just said this joke to me:

“I heard the Fins couldn’t get into their locker room last week.”

“Why, what happened?”

“Someone painted a goal line in front of the door.”

I feel bad for the Miami Dolphins, but they are really bad…

Hilarious. Thanks, sis.

There’s something just clever about this song. It’s addicting even though it has a bit of that can’t-turn-away-from-a-train-wreck quality going for it. The song is How We Go Out by Leslie Hall and the LYs. You can find out more about her on her web site, her MySpace page, and her YouTube page. Truly a YouTube phenomenon, btw.

Via Schneier, we have this clever and funny observation about the House of Lords debate on the effectiveness of the airline liquids ban:

“We continuously monitor the effectiveness of, in particular, the liquid security measures…”

How, one might ask? But hold on:

“The fact that there has not been a serious incident involving liquid explosives indicates, I would have thought, that the measures that we have put in place so far have been very effective.”

Ah, that’s how. On which basis the measures against asteroid strike, alien invasion and unexplained nationwide floods of deadly boiling custard have also been remarkably effective.

Proving a negative is always a fun logical quandary to get into.

As the page makes really clear, the site is a satire making fun of the Republican candidates although in no way affiliated with Facebook.com. Some highlights:

Mitt Romney has left the group “Pro Choice”….Mitt Romney has joined the group “Pro Life”

Fred Thompson wrote on John McCain’s Wall:

Hey, if neither one of us gets the nomination, how about teaming up for a remake of “Grumpy Old Men”? You be Lemmon, I’ll be Matthau!

Pat Robertson wrote on Rudy Giuliani’s Wall:

You’re not fooling anyone, pal. The Right doesn’t need Facebook to win — it needs Faithbook! You can quote me on that.

While Heidi is now cat blogging, at least she hasn’t gone as far as FeedDemon’s Nick Bradbury, who wrote this and (I presume?) this. While hilarious, you have to admit it’s a bit weird.