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Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 15 "Deciding Like A Ninja"

Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 16 "How To Kill A Ninja"

Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 26 "Least Favorite"

Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Special Delivery 1 "What is Podcasting?"

Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

Question 17 "Ninja Omnibus"

Ask a Ninja is an award-winning series of comedy videos about the image of ninjas in popular culture available in podcast and vodcast form, as well as in the popular mov and wmv file formats. The series, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine and produced by David Peck, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers". The ninja often answers the questions from his character's point of view (that is, with references to killing or murdering).

The Origin of the Human Mind: Insights from Brain Imaging and Evolution

UCSD cognitive scientist Martin Sereno takes you on a captivating exploration of the brain's structure and function as revealed through investigations with new advanced imaging techniques and understandings of evolution. Series: "Grey Matters"

The Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.

BBC Horizon: Nice guys finish first

In this 1986 video, Richard Dawkins, author of the book, The Selfish Gene explains how natural selection can favour co-operation in nature - so long as it is of benefit to the selfish gene. His search for stable co-operate strategies, which remain unaffected by cheating and exploitation involves an extraordinary game known as the Prisoners' Dilemma, normally used by psychologists to study human behaviour. In their attempts to earn real money, players must wrestle with a dilemma - whether to follow their natural instincts of co-operation or the dictates of reason and behave selfishly.

350 Years of Economic Theory in 50 Minutes

Presented to homeschool parents and students, 09/29/2006, Mises Institute by Mark Thornton

Cheese Shop

The "Cheese Shop" sketch is a famous sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days."

The sketch is a fairly typical John Cleese set-piece. In essence, John Cleese attempts to purchase some cheese from the cheese shop; unfortunately the proprietor, Mr. Henry Wensleydale (Michael Palin, playing the obstructive shopkeeper to Cleese's irate customer), appears to have not one single variety in stock, not even a morsel of Cheddar cheese, 'the single most popular cheese in the world'.

Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit

"Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit" is a Monty Python sketch. It is about an RSM-type instructor who is teaching a class about self-defense, but all he teaches is how to defend oneself against an assailant "armed" with a piece of fresh fruit.

The teacher (John Cleese) is about to start off his class, but he notices that everyone, save for four students, is absent. He starts off the class by carrying on from where they got to last week, when he was showing them how to defend themselves against anyone who attacks with a piece of fresh fruit.

Jay Chou - Huo Yuanjia

Jay Chou music video for the film Fearless

Five Most Common Myths about International Trade

Robert Murphy, Five Most Common Myths about International Trade
From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama

Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

Dirty Hungarian phrasebook is a Monty Python sketch that first aired in 1970. The sketch starts by saying that Hungarian nationals have moved into London. John Cleese plays a Hungarian who enters a tobacconist's shop. He says to the tobacconist (Terry Jones), reading from the phrasebook he is holding, "I will not buy this record; it is scratched." When Jones corrects him he says, "Ah, I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched." Cleese then proceeds to read more bizarre phrases from the phrasebook, including "My hovercraft is full of eels" (may I have some matches?) and "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

Rubens' Tube

The Rubens' tube, also known as the Standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics experiment demonstrating a standing wave. It shows the relationship between sound waves and air pressure.

Honda Civic Choir

As images of Honda's being driven are shown, the sounds to accompany the cars are provided by a chior in an underground garage. The Choir provides all the sound from the car accelerating, the wiper blades, even as a car speeds through puddles.

The Philosophers' Football Match

The Philosophers' Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

The sketch depicted a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics, between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles.

South Park - Chewbacca Defense

The term Chewbacca defense is used to refer to any legal strategy or propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience or jury with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments.

Chewbacca Defense originated in the animated series South Park. The show satirized attorney Johnnie Cochran's closing argument defending O.J. Simpson in his murder trial.

Matrix Ping Pong

Matrix Ping Pong is a recording from the popular annual Japanese show Kinchan and Katori Shingo's National Costume Competition (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の新！仮装大賞) showing a group of people attempting to mix moves in the style of The Matrix with Ping Pong, using kurokos -- stagehands in kabuki theatre -- to hold the actors and the props up. This performance won the competition on March 31, 2003.

The Black Knight

The Black Knight is a fictional character in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He is, as his name suggests, a black knight who guards a tiny bridge for unknown reasons. Although supremely skilled in swordplay, he suffers from unchecked overconfidence and a staunch refusal to ever give up. Though he only appeared in one scene, he has gone on to become one of the most popular characters of the entire film.

Tim Burton's Vincent

Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton and Rick Heinrichs. At approximately six minutes in length, there is currently no individual release of the film. (...) The film was narrated by Vincent Price, a life-long idol and inspiration for Burton.

The Life and Death of a Pumpkin

WINNER: Best Short Film and Best Concept, 2006 Chicago Horror Film Festival, October (Chicago, IL)

A cherished holiday from a new and horrible perspective. Brought to you by Blame Society Productions.

Directed by Aaron Yonda

Röyksopp - What Else is There?

"What Else Is There?" is the third single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp's second album The Understanding. It features the vocals of Karin Dreijer Andersson from the electronica duo The Knife. The album was released in the UK with the help of Astralwerks.

Knights who say Ni

The Knights Who Say Ni are a band of knights from the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, feared for the manner in which they utter the word "ni" (pronounced [ni], like knee but clipped short). As it was said in the movie, "Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale!"

Goodness Gracious Me - Going for an English

One of the more famous sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lhassis. They mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing from the menu (apart from one of them, who opts for the safer option of a curry) and ask for 24 portions of chips. This parodies the often-drunk English people "going out for an Indian", ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was recently voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch.

SeaWorld's Punishment For Shamu

Late Show with David Letterman

Killer whale Shamu almost drowned a trainer. See how SeaWorld is responding.

Goodness Gracious Me - Hindu Santa

Mr "Everything Comes From India" - A man who insists that just about everything comes from India or was invented by Indians, including William Shakespeare, Cliff Richard (who was actually born in India), Leonardo da Vinci, most English words: (Veranda, shampoo, conditioner), the British Royal Family (all except Prince Charles, whom he claimed to be African), and Superman (who is apparently Indian as he has two jobs and can run faster than the trains).

MIT Sketch Understanding Demo

Oxygen user technologies

Haystack and the Semantic Web support personalized information management and collaboration through metadata management and manipulation. ASSIST helps extract design rationales from simple sketches.

The Argument Skit

The Argument Skit (or Argument or Argument Clinic) is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appeared in the show's 29th episode. The skit's premise involves a service that exposes customers to unpleasant experiences for a fee. For example, one can pay to be verbally abused (by Chapman) or to engage in an argument.

Yes Prime Minister - Who Reads the Papers

The Yes Prime Minister clip with Jim Hacker discussing who reads the papers in Britain.

Tesla, The Genius Who Lit The World

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age. This program reveals the discoveries of a forgotten genius, many of which went unnoticed for nearly a century. How did this obscure visionary from what is now Yugoslavia lay the foundation for modern communication – and which of his inventions were considered a little too revolutionary by government agencies and the power brokers of the time.

Among his discoveries are: fluorescent light, the laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control, robotics, Tesla’s turbines and vertical take off aircraft. Tesla is the father of the radio and the modern electrical transmission system. Tesla registered over 700 patents worldwide. His vision included power from the sea, exploration of solar energy, the discovery of cosmic radio waves, and the use of the ionosphere for scientific purposes.

He foresaw interplanetary communications and satellites.

Carlton Draught Bid Ad

The Carlton Draught Big Ad is an award-winning advertisement for Carlton Draught created by George Patterson and Partners (Young & Rubicam) of Melbourne, which used viral marketing techniques before being released on television. It premiered on Australian television on 7 August 2005.

In the advertisement, two armies, one dressed in maroon, the other in yellow, march toward one another singing "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, but replaced with lyrics such as "It’s a big ad/...expensive ad/This ad better sell some bloody beer". A heroic figure on horseback leads the charge. Viewed from the air, we see the armies form a glass of Carlton Draught and a human body. The glass is then lifted to the mouth, and the audience sees the beer (the rushing, ecstatically leaping yellow-clad men) flowing into the stomach of the figure.

1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Tank Man or the Unknown Rebel is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who is seen to stand in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400mm lens.

Google at The Economic Club of Chicago

Presentation by Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Chicago Economic Club on Google, advertising, the internet and the future of technology.

The pleasure of finding things out - R. Feynman

THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos and the Bomb, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.

The Open Mind - Milton Friedman

Transcript: THE OPEN MIND for broadcast in New York City on WPIX, Channel 11
Sunday, December 7, 1975, 10:30 - 11:00 P.M.
Moderator/Host Richard D. Heffner
Guest: Milton Friedman, economist

White & Nerdy

"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006. It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. The song both laments and revels in nerdiness, as recited by the subject who can't "roll with the gangstas" because he is "just too white and nerdy", and includes constant references to stereotypically nerdy things, such as editing Wikipedia and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Bloody peasant

One of the funniest scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Dennis, the anarcho-syndicalist peasant, points out the violence inherent in the system and is subsequently repressed.

Dead Parrot

The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most famous in the history of television comedy.

It portrays a conflict between disgruntled customer Mr. Eric Praline (played by John Cleese), and a shopkeeper (Michael Palin), who hold contradictory positions on the vital state of a Norwegian Blue parrot (an apparent absurdity in itself since parrots are popularly presumed to be tropical and not indigenous to Scandinavia). The skit pokes fun at the many euphemisms for death used in English culture.

Fidel Castro for Stroh's Light beer

Dubbed commercial from Stroh's Light Beer

Stargaze - Hubble's View Of The Universe

"StarGaze" brings the beauty and majesty of the universe to your home theater, direct from the Hubble Space Telescope with over an hour of the most incredible images of the universe you'll ever see, from gaseous clouds to more than 200 other astronomical objects, plus Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound music from popular new age group 2002.

Kiwi!

Dony Permedi Master's thesis animation video. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios.

BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

Independence Day - President Whitmore Speech

The heart-wrenching speech made by President Thomas J. Whitemore prior to the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind in the movie Independence Day.

The Fountainhead - Howard Roark Speech

From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Gary Cooper as Howard Roark delivers the memorable courtroom speech in self-defense for dynamiting Courtland.

Children of the Secret State

Children of the Secret State is an investigation into North Korea, considered by many as the last Stalinist dictatorship, a hidden and sealed country riddled with propaganda and saturated with hostility to democracy and the West.

Globalisation is Good

The world is an unequal and unjust place, in which some are born into wealth and some into hunger and misery. To explore why, in this controversial Channel Four documentary the young Swedish writer Johan Norberg takes the viewers on a journey to Taiwan, Vietnam, Kenya and Brussels to see the impact of globalisation, and the consequences of its absence. It makes the case that the problem in the world is not too much capitalism, globalisation and multinationals, but too little.

Every Breath You Take

Columbia Business School's Dean Glenn Hubbard sings about wanting Alan Greenspan's job that went instead to New Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. Parody created by Columbia Business School students.

Flight Patterns

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.

The Philosophy of Liberty

An 8-minute animated video presentation explaining the basis for individual rights and responsibilities in a free society. Taken from the epilogue of The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible; A Free Market Odyssey, written by Ken Schoolland. Excellent for students or anyone else exploring the philosophy of freedom. Shows that we can give to government only those powers we, ourselves, possess.

A terrifying message from Al Gore

From the creators of Futurama comes a terrifying message from Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth is now playing in theaters.

Amish Paradise

"Amish Paradise" is "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of the hip hop song "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio. Found on the album Bad Hair Day, it turns the original "Gangsta's Paradise," in which the narrator laments his dangerous way of life, on its head by presenting an Amish man praising his relatively tedious and unsophisticated existence.