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The craziest bus ad you’ll ever see

A bus doing donuts, people climbing over each other to try and get on and taking photographs as though they’re visiting a popular tourist site are just a few of the things you’ll see in this crazy bus commercial.

Neil Halstead – Full Moon Rising

The Slowdive and Mojave 3 frontman released a new record this week. Here he is playing one of the songs from it.

Rick-rolled By Mad Men

Thanks to a YouTube user with a lot of time on his hands, we now know what it looks and sounds like to be Rick-rolled by the cast of Mad Men.

Father builds backyard water park

This New Jersey family doesn’t have to go far to enjoy a water park since dad decided to build one in their backyard.

Daily Planet ‘Most Unrealistic’ Part of Superman

The Onion throws salt on the wound of the newspaper industry in this segment where a comic book fan says an economically viable Daily Planet newspaper is the most far-fetched thing about the superhero comic book series. As a former daily newspaper reporter, the state of the business makes me sad – just today I read […]

Alfred Hitchock’s Cameos

Want to celebrate Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday by watching a video of all his famed cameos? There’s a YouTube video for that.

Actors Studio Remixed

From ScreenWerks comes this at times amusing and other times profound remix of the answers actors have given to James Lipton’s interview wrap-up question on the long-running Bravo program Inside the Actors Studio. Who knew leaf blowers were so hated? I’d take a leaf blower over a noisy motorcycle muffler any day. via Slate

English With A Minor In History

As the name suggests, Liberal Arts is a movie about college as told through the relationship of a 35-year-old admissions counselor and the daughter of his (second) favorite professor.