
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L15udje2Grk
A moment of awesome. But where? Cork Rallysprint? Connaught Autocross?
Defiant tricolours at the Azerbaijan Parish Invitational Classic?
Anyone?
In case you missed it: the utterly brilliant mockumentary about Sweden (aired during last weekend’s Eurovision)
And yes, that’s Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in the unwashed coffee cup scene.
The ongoing Desktop Diaries series by Science Friday features informal interviews with noted boffins at their desks.
Above, theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku talks Flash Gordon while psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, who doesn’t actually have a desk, relates the time he lost his Nobel medal. As you do.
View the entire collection here.
Surgeon Simulator 2013 is a fiendishly difficult game where (to the tune of the Casualty theme) players take control of cyber-surgeon Dr Nigel Burke’s hands and attempt to complete a heart transplant.
The sheer frequency of ragequit (above, second video) has ensured its mimetic status.
YouTuber Dan Sorkowitz sez of this spectacular Pavlovian role-reversal:
I trained my cat to ring a bell for treats. Now, when he wants treats, he will lay down in front of the bell and ask his servant_me to give him..When he gets full, [keep watching] he will push the bell away, and clean his paws.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-pp2ODjrbM
Yesterday morning, Barbara Garcia – standing in the tornado ravaged remains of Moore, Oklahoma – gave an interview to CBS where she talked about losing not only her home but her beloved companion dog.
Then something wonderful happened.
Actually a (brilliantly) poorly-animated and appropriately unhinged video by Australian artist Isaac Moore illustrating the epic 8-minute proposed plot synopsis of the next Star Wars movie offered last month by Parks and Recreation actor Patton Oswalt.
(Top: a earlier tribute by Jef Castro)