The only saving grace of awards shows, if they have a saving grace that is, are the opening video spoofs. The one from this years Emmy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, is without a doubt the best awards show intro ever.

Every morning I want to wake up like this. I could do without being tickled by Hobbits, but it’s a small price to pay.

You may recall the bizarre Japanese aerobics and English language video where all the phrases being taught by the aerobics performing women had a very strange and dark overtone. This video answers the questions created by the previous one. Unfortunately, it also raises its own questions.

I wasn’t too good at this game until I started to imagine it as a simulation of corporate America. Just pretend those big fat fish are rich sweaty executives looking to bite into your youthful flesh and suck all the life and motivation out of you just to feed their giant money making machines for one extra day. Am I bitter? No, I’m not bitter.

Are you tempted by the mystical allure of the speedo, but afraid that you won’t be able to pull it off? After watching this handy tutorial, you’ll be able to wear a speedo with the confidence it demands! Also, frisbee for no particular reason!

Wenger, the company that makes the legendary Swiss Army Knives has introduced a 9-inch long, 2-pound “blade” which features every tool Swiss Army makes, 85 instruments in all.

We’re going to be moving over to a new server this weekend, so don’t be alarmed if the site doesn’t work at some point. The comments will probably be locked Friday evening and throughout the weekend to prevent us from losing any during the switch. Technically the migration should be transparent, but technically no human’s beauty should rival that of a greek god’s, and, well… here I am.

A cat’s natural inclination when being man-handled is to claw out the eyes of its man-handler. By comparison, a dead cat’s natural inclination is to remain dead. Ergo this cat is dead… or is it?

I’m not really going to go into too much description here, but in case you’re having trouble making out some of the body parts in the thumbnail: there’s a guys head, and a hand holding the head down, and a leg, a naked crotch, and… are we getting a picture yet?

Wake up silly sleepy-heads! Charlie’s going to Candy Mountain, a land of sweets and joy and joyness. It’ll be an adventure!

The Norwegian city of Trondheim is home to a very neat, but rather useless piece of cycling infrastructure. Oh sure, some might argue that it is useful, but those people are just lazy… or fat.

Final Fortress. It’s like Final Fantasy, only instead of a fantasy there’s a fortress. And instead of creepy androgynous japanese sci-fi magic there’s mines and cannons and explosions. Which makes it so much better than Final Fantasy that I just wet myself.

Doug Douglason and Raymond Ractburger share their love of Dungeons & Dragons, LARPing, and maybe even find love in this video about imagination and roleplaying. Game master Administrator says this is long, but funny.

I have to admit that I don’t care for this video at all. I wasn’t even going to post this, but then everyone started talking about it and I even heard it mentioned on the radio. “It must be good, and I probably have no taste” I thought, so here you go!