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If you only have time for one, the trailer for the Dark Knight, acted by kids.

The "Clever girl" scene from Jurassic Park.

and finally, a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope

I’ve always wondered… Why doesn’t the Kool-Aid man shatter when he smashed through a wall with his trademarked ‘Oh, YEAH!’?

The first part of the answer: "Firstly, because he’s made of pyrex."

The future is coming. They’re actually working on warp drives and laser weapons are already being tested.

Its one thing to be taught that lightning seeks out the easiest path down to the ground and its quite another to see it in slow motion. Thanks Today’s BIG thing!

On these internets, there is a site named "Those Aren’t Muskets!", your standard "ambitious young comedy troupe with nothing to lose and everything to prove." As is often the case!

I submit for your approval, two samples of their work:

• Damn You, Batman! Commissioner Gordon has some harsh words for The Batman.
• Star Trek Rap: Resistance is futile. All beats will be assimilated.

I find NBC’s commitment to the Olympics to be great simply because they are going all out. My TiVo informed me that we now have an Olympic Soccer and Olympic Basketball channel, in HD no-less, as well as the coverage on NBC HD, USA HD, Universal HD, CNBC HD and I think there’s some other ones as well… Bravo maybe?

Combine this with their website and the Olympics On The Go site for Windows Media Center users and there’s just a myriad of ways to watch the different events going on!

I have to recommend the Men’s 4×100 freestyle if you didn’t catch that and the highlights of the USA vs China basketball game to get a taste of the pain that the "Redeem team" is going to inflict this year.

Top gear top tip: When you pick a video, make sure to click the "Enlarge Player" option because that’s how you get access to the Picture-in-picture, highlights and "live video control room" which really make it easy to keep track of your particular sport.

Thanks to Metafilter, I now know what happens at the American Library Association’s national conference… Book Cart Drill Team Championships.

Here are the winners of the 2008 contest, the Santa Monica Public Library "Well Stacked Scibrarians" and their Thriller-centric routine.

Also interesting but less rocking, a story from a show called "How Buildings Learn", based on a book by the same name about the evolution that buildings go through as people live and work in them.

This particular story is about The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford where you learn what happened when the oak beams in their Great Hall were discovered to be full of beetles some 500 years after its construction. I won’t give away the ending, but its fairly smart.

Mr.Benjamin sent me the best video I’ve seen in a while. A review of the Mini Cooper Clubman S that tests whether it really has Go Kart handling by racing it against a go kart, on a go kart track!

Video: Mini Clubman vs. Go Kart

It would be comedy gold… Here’s a snippet:

EXT. A HIGHWAY - DAY

The Batmobile is gunning down the highway at over 200 miles per hour, weaving through traffic. Every time BATMAN is about to crash with a civilian, the camera enters ultra slow motion and we see him barely squeeze by, frame by frame. This happens seventeen times.

You should read the other little bits here.

Dr.Wily has had a few problems taking out Mega Man and in this behind the scenes footage, we find out why… the level designers union.

Bottle Shock is based on the true story of how California wines got on the map. A blind tasting called the Judgment of Paris was setup by a British wine merchant in 1976, pitting the top French wines against their counterparts from California and surprisingly, California swept the scores.

RocknRolla is a new Guy Ritchie project coming out in October. The plot being "London’s criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster’s shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs."

It kinda looks like a darker mix of Lock Stock and Layer Cake.

We just had a wicked storm fly through here… Next time, I’ll try to set up the time lapse earlier.. and find a way to get a clock in the shot. This was over an hour or so…