Do you have fun at your job? Probably not as much as these people. A company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker, is evidently where people dance around and drink soda and make music videos.

This does look like a lot of fun and the song is great, too! (Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger)

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo

What is it with all these movies coming out of which I have heard nothing? Here’s another intriguing trailer for a film which looks like a cross between John Carpenter’s The Thing and his Assault on Precinct 13 films. It’s produced by the great Sam Raimi and looks pretty damn cool.

30 Days of Night is a vampire movie set in an arctic town where the daylight sun has become clouded over and the sharp and fangies come out to play.

Here’s the brand new trailer for Shoot ‘Em Up, starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, and a crazed Paul Giamatti. I’ve never even heard of this movie until today and it looks like a blast.

Clive Owen is The Man, but Giamatti looks like he could steal the film.

Paying for bullets with food stamps… awesome.

Okay, so I’ve been watching tons of videos over on YouTube since last Fall and have subscribed to a number of channels that I find entertaining there, for whatever reason.

Admittedly, I’ve also developed some pretty big crushes on the various girl-vloggers there. One of my favorites is LisaNova, who is known in real life as Lisa Donavan. She’s smart, funny and beautiful. After being featured on YT for some time and building up one of the Top 20 most subscribed channels, Lisa has also recently begun appearing on the sketch show MadTV.

Thought I’d share a recent video she did lampooning the ongoing debates between the presidential campaigns of Hilary Clinton and Barak Obama. Pretty smart - and indicative of how great Lisa’s videos are.

This clip was sent by none other than Stallone himself out to a few media outlets and Aint It Cool News, who are under agreement to only show it for next 48 hours.

However I am posting it here in all it’s glory to give you lot the very first look at the new Rambo film, “John Rambo”. I posted just days ago the first pics of the film and the outline of it’s plot.

Now get a full-sized trailer view of the royal beat-down Stallone is going to give action fans in his final send-off of his other great, mythical character.

I pretty much skipped over the various eulogies and observations on the recent death of Jerry Falwell. I really couldn’t care much less.

But this video clip is absolutely amazing and yet more evidence that Christopher Hitchens may be the single greatest person alive today. Seriously, the man has my vote.

It’s rare that I read something or hear anyone speak and then can honestly say that I agree with everything they say. Yet I do agree with everything Hitchens says in this clip from CNN. And I mean every syllable.

It’s just awesome - and refreshing:

Ever see one of those great David Blaine TV specials where he walks around doing ’street magic’? If you have, you’ll get the joke of this spoof. Even if you haven’t, it’s still pretty funny.

for Carl…

… Consider again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

~ Carl Sagan, COSMOS

Christopher Hitchens is rapidly becoming my new hero. From standing up to the baying hyenas on Bill Maher to slamming both liberals and conservatives alike for their craven cowardice in the face of militant Islam, he takes the best position in any argument: the reasoned one.

Enjoy this recent video captured from his speech at Hart House, University of Toronto. Hitchens speech is in opposition to a proposed amendment to criminalize hate speech. But the best part is when he gets a full head of steam towards the end, when it comes to addressing the truest threat to our way of life:

I know I’ve been cheating lately with a lot of these A/V Club posts, but between the nice weather and an ongoing SEO project, I’ve not really taken the time to write any personal updates.

Anyway, I really love this video. The girl singer is a Norwegian pop star and this is her biggest European single to date. It’s clever and catchy and, let’s face it, what’s cuter than a girl singing to herself?