The Monty Python cast (sans John Cleese) "co-host" AM America to promote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, April 25 1975. Hat-tip, as I believe is the correct blogging term, to Dennis Perrin at Red State Son.

Then there's these PBS fundraising spots the Pythons did the same year. I recall seeing one of these at the time, aged eleven. Well, actually, it wasn't one of these, it was the one where Michael Palin is tied to a chair. (This was because my family spent eight months in the US at that time, which is also why I'm one of the few Australians who understood what the "Amendment to Be" cartoon on The Simpsons was sending up - and very smug I am about it, too.

(It was, of course, this.)

Oh, look, another Python gem, the very first Monty Python sketch ever broadcast, subsequently deleted from repeats of the show in order not to clash with a general election, then lost, then discovered here in footage from a PBS pledge. Score!

The Whitney Music Box

Via Crooked Timber

Imperial History of the Middle East in 90 Seconds
Flash Animation from Maps of War

Rube Goldberg in the office

George W. Bush Speechwriter

Spherical Panoramas

Good Day, Mr Kubrick
Fake audition tape for Full Metal Jacket. Note many commenters seem to think it's real - the Internet: where irony goes to die.

I think the number you're looking for is 30,000

Let's check back with Julian Beever's Pavement Art

The Grinder
Shockwaved video of industrial grinder demonstration. It, er, grinds stuff.

Even worse than having an earworm of "My Sharona" is having an earworm of "My Sharona" as the disturbing result of having just read the drummer's obituary.

Street Art

A gallery of painted cardboard shelters from Shinjuku Station.

Crying While Eating

Hardcore band fronted by African Grey Parrot

Harry Hutton talks to a Nigerian e-mail spammer

The Tale of How: YouGooTube; large download here

The War of the Words

Ken Burns parody detailing the history of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders. Probably only of amusement to those who frequent snarky American liberal political weblogs.

Raptop Computer
Computer keyboard constructed from mechanical typewriter.

Via William Gibson.

Oh, right, the "Free Hugs" people, I remember them. They mostly hung around Pitt Street Mall, though a few other places in Sydney appear in the film. (Circular Quay, obviously, and Martin Place {the skateboarder}.)

Myself, I never got a free hug. The thought of touching one of you humanoids sickens me.*

Via Bob Harris, who appears a bit after a minute in.

*I kid because I love.

Four months of newsreader "Good evenings"

They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

A LOTR cut-up song.