Best YouTube videos

Dr.VanNostren · 2009-09-16T18:24:59.000Z

XtienMurawski:

What Won’t Sprint Relay Operators Say?

NSFW.

-xtien

“I wondered if you heard about the Goblins.”

Oh my god, me and my friends used to have hours of fun with Sprint relay and IP relay. Funny video.

Scrax · 2009-09-16T18:28:40.000Z

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses – and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

ted.com

Your elusive creative genius

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

Fantastic video which I think is relevant to a number of people on this forum.
Warning 19 minutes, but she’s fantastic.

datter · 2009-09-17T05:04:41.000Z

How it’s made : Bacon. Somehow I never knew it was pork bellies.

zengonzo · 2009-09-17T06:43:08.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAboGO9MDsQ

Ghostbusters (1954)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPDuQq9GsM

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951)

Drastic · 2009-09-17T06:43:55.000Z

malphigian:

It’s a sort of famous child behavior study which comes up in a lot of child development books.

Apparently, performance on this test is a better indicator of future performance in school than any type of IQ test.

There was a Radiolab podcast episode about this kind of study, too. It’s pretty interesting how the children who do the worst at the test will all turn out to be serial killers. I might not be remembering the details right.

Marged · 2009-09-17T07:06:31.000Z

Siren, that was hilarious. I was cracking up at the kids smelling it.

malphigian:

It’s a sort of famous child behavior study which comes up in a lot of child development books.

Apparently, performance on this test is a better indicator of future performance in school than any type of IQ test.

I want to see a video of the experiment where they hand the child a “very special” doll that’s been rigged to fall apart in their hands, and measure their remorse. (They absolve the children of their guilt after 60 seconds, so it’s not as monstrous as it sounds.)

Drastic · 2009-09-17T07:22:48.000Z

That experiment looks awesome! Most young kids probably don’t have the patience for the full brew cycle, though.

zengonzo · 2009-09-17T07:26:26.000Z

Marged:

I want to see a video of the experiment where they hand the child a “very special” doll that’s been rigged to fall apart in their hands, and measure their remorse.

Let’s see how she reacts when we take away the puppy …

zengonzo · 2009-09-17T07:27:16.000Z

Also, Marged, might want to double-check that link.

Mordrak · 2009-09-17T10:21:16.000Z

Siren:

Oh, The Temptation.

I like the one where the kid is looking away in like a child version of the thinker–rolling the marshmallow in his hand–as if he’s contemplating the deep philosophical nature of marshmallow-hood.

Marged · 2009-09-17T10:23:53.000Z

zengonzo:

Also, Marged, might want to double-check that link.

Oh, dammit! You know, for some reason on my laptop, ctrl+C never seems to take leading to my endless embarrassment on numerous occasions. I usually check compulsively now as a result. Here’s the real link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/science/25tier.html

zengonzo · 2009-09-17T10:29:24.000Z

I can totally understand a preoccupation with beer as the week drags on.

At least it wasn’t horrific porn again.

Marged · 2009-09-17T10:30:59.000Z

…Again?

zengonzo · 2009-09-17T10:32:07.000Z

Yeah, small blessings, right?

Good read, by the by.

Rimbo · 2009-09-17T17:43:33.000Z

Marged:

Oh, dammit! You know, for some reason on my laptop, ctrl+C never seems to take leading to my endless embarrassment on numerous occasions. I usually check compulsively now as a result. Here’s the real link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/science/25tier.html

You know, this is probably the best thing about the Curious George stories: George always promises to be a good monkey, but sometimes he forgets. It helps kids to understand that doing a bad thing doesn’t necessarily make them bad kids.

I’ll say this much, though… my kid is about seventeen million times better-behaved than I ever was at his age.

Jarmo · 2009-09-18T08:43:29.000Z

Scrax:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

Fantastic video which I think is relevant to a number of people on this forum.
Warning 19 minutes, but she’s fantastic.

That was probably the best speech I’ve ever heard. Very helpful ideas, brilliantly presented. What a thinker and talker! Thank you, Scrax!

zengonzo · 2009-09-18T09:46:40.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFIYn515tyg

Our friendship’s foOoreverrr, youU know daA deEeaAl, you can tell me any-thing and I will not go squeeEaAal!

BostonBum0 · 2009-09-18T09:51:35.000Z

zengonzo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFIYn515tyg

Our friendship’s foOoreverrr, youU know daA deEeaAl, you can tell me any-thing and I will not go squeeEaAal!

I like soem of the comments:

Youtube Channel:

Tom,
I’m trying to be a friend here but for the sake of embarrassment, please delete this Youtube account before you become the laughing stock of the internet. You might be new here, but you have no idea what “they” will do to you and your career. “They” meaning the social networking sites such as 4chan, digg, reddit, etc. Keep working on your music career but don’t make it public until you produce a song that doesn’t sound like a female cow giving birth to a deformed calf.

But, if this happens to be a parody then you are a genius.

Best of luck

zengonzo · 2009-09-18T09:58:38.000Z

It’s difficult to accept as anything other than parody - but it isn’t funny or clever, and the images give no impression of self-awareness.

WarrenM · 2009-09-18T10:00:56.000Z

Hint : all cows are female.