Lordi -- Finnish Rock Group

What's with the Finns?

Peter Gabriel's Biko

See my post on Steve Biko at my main blog.

Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream is a fantastic little tale, told in 3D CG animation from the Orange Project and the Blender Foundation. The details of the plot, characters, setting, etc., while interesting, is not as interesting as the project itself. Elephants Dream is an open source project developed by a small group of artists and animators from around the world. The project used open source software, and released their short film via BitTorrent, using a Creative Commons license. What's more cool than that?

You can play the teaser trailer above or download the entire movie online.

Infection Control

This video was produced by the New Zealand health department to provide advise, primarily to health care workers, on healthy practices in an influenza pandemic setting. Common sense. How common is it to you? [See my related post on the Avian Flu here.]

Stephen Colbert @ the White House Correspondents Dinner

Everyone has probably heard this already. You can find the full transcript of Colbert's speech here. And below, find the speech in three parts, posted on YouTube by icopythat. Update: May 10, 2006. YouTube has removed the videos, and being a believer in conspiracy theories, I think they did it not for copyright violations, as they continue to host many other Stephen Colbert videos. Maybe they didn't like the fact that Colbert made fun of Bush. Regardless, you can see the video elsewhere. So here it is again.