Someone has made a strange, looping, Phillip Glass-y video from an old Full House clip. Apparently it was some kind of art project. It stars actors from all over the world who were found on Craigslist, and goes on and on and on. We're not sure why it exists, but it does. Watch it over and over again. It's mesmerizing. Video after the jump. [From AV Club]

Search engine Lycos isn't gone, but it is forgotten. It vanished from our collective consciousness not long after making hyped acquisitions of companies like Tripod, Angelfire, and Wired Digital. Cofounder Bob Davis was there to watch it go. Now he's a venture capitalist. The bad news? As the M&A market slows to 2003 levels, Davis tells BoomTown we've already entered the second recession of his career. The good news? It's not going to be nearly so bad as last time. "Today, entrepreneurs and surely VCs are saying, there has to be some sense of metrics, there has to be something."

In this clip, a series of Apple employees "dance" for the camera to showcase morphing technology that was cutting-edge, like their hair and their dance moves, for the time. The video was included on a CD-ROM version of QuickTime released in 1992. Does anyone recognize the folks in the video and know where they are now?

Nerve and IFC collected history's top 50 comedy sketches in one mega-article full of YouTube and Quicktime clips. This is the ultimate Internet list, ever. (That sentence doesn't even make sense but it is true.) Below are my ten favorites from the list, if you only want to waste an hour and not your entire day.

Click to viewIn journalist/blogger Daniel Radosh's upcoming Rapture Ready, he investigates the parallel universe of Christian Pop Culture. It's kinda like regular pop culture, except holier and with slightly worse production values. He says the music's not as bad as you think, but from the looks of this EXCLUSIVE VIDEO, the TV is sublimely ridiculous, if a bit, uh, totally offensive. It's from a TV show called Bibleman, which airs on Trinity Broadcasting Network. In this installment, Bibleman takes on a smarmy talk show host named Sammy Davey, who happens to be an embarrassingly exaggerated Jewish stereotype. Sammy Davey—played by a man in a ridiculous Jewfro wig doing an impression of Martin Short doing an impression of Jerry Lewis—totally ambushes Bibleman, the Christian superhero who apparently doesn't fight evil so much as appear on talk shows to explain why bad things happen to good people. (Hint: because New Yorkers are Jews who don't believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.) The whole thing is basically Randy Newman's "Rednecks" come to life, with Bibleman in the Lester Maddox role. Click through to read an explanatory excerpt from Rapture Ready and to watch the the astounding clip.

"It's the Math Brothers favorite time of the year. Why? Cuz it's TAX SEASON! Boo Yah. In this special episode the Math Bros cruise around the campus of illustrious Columbia University to find some unsuspecting ladies who will do their taxes." This porn parody is funny until you realize that's because of all the hours you spent getting familiar with Bang Bus.

A pilot called "Crashman" uploaded his edited, scored videos of plane crashes to YouTube. "I expected to be excoriated by this wider, larger general public as a ghoul, an exploiter of the suffering of others...But, and I had expected this too, neo-Ballardians began to show themselves, finding subtle excitements and even strange beauty in the videos, that uneasy, disquieting splendour inherent in the slow-motion breakup of a speeding aircraft." See six of his videos below. [Ballardian via Boing Boing]

If you were to conduct a poll of the 276 million people living in these here United States asking what they'd REALLY like to know about their favorite celebrities, we're pretty sure you'd be hard pressed to find even one person who's wondering whether or not country music star Clint Black is any good at stand-up comedy. Still, that didn't stop CBS from devoting close to 6 minutes of airtime last night to answering that very question as part of their brand new show, Secret Talents Of The Stars. Sandwiched between segments of other equally perplexing talents of Z-listers (Can George Takei sing country music? Can Mya dance? Does a bear shit in the woods?), Clint Black spent some time prepping his stand-up routine with old friend Garry Shandling at the preeminent comedy hotspot for people born in the 1950s, The Comedy Store. Unfortunately for all of us, when a clearly concerned Shandling asked the yukless Black if "he had any OTHER secret talents" besides comedy, Black's answer was no. Shandling's advice and Black's so-bad-it's-bad performance follow after the jump.

Some Lost obsessee with lots and lots of time on their hands has put together an extensive and definitive video collage of the island's big questions. If you don't watch the show and are curious about what all the fuss is about or if you're a fan looking for something to tide you over until the 24th, this is the video for you, after the jump.

Police say six teenagers trapped 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay in a house and then beat her until she lost consciousness. Their evidence? Video, which authorities say the girls planned to upload to MySpace and YouTube. Lindsay's mother told Good Morning America she in part blames the site for the attacks. "I don't understand it" Lindsay says in the clip above. "I don't understand how our society has gotten through peer pressure to our kids that's its OK to act in violence and then want to post it on MySpace or YouTube or anywhere else, just for entertainment and a laugh." Ah, whimpering and weeping, the stuff of pure ROFLMAO.

Kathie Lee Gifford hasn't even been co-hosting The Today Show for a full week, but already she's managed to both turn it into the 700 Club and give us nightmares about her husband Frank Gifford's kinky adulterous past. She wants you to remember, ladies: it's not your fault! You're actually just like Princess Di because lots of sexy women have been cheated on by their husbands. None of this is surprising though, as Kathie Lee's tenure on Live! was marked by constant overshares about her sham marriage, her wretched children (Cody and Cassidy) and her cheesy Wal-Mart faith. Now she's got this faux-View platform to spout it all out again. She's been waiting for years. Praise Jesus!

Models falling are always funny. They splay out on the runway in their fancy clothes and ridiculous shoes and suddenly, for a brief moment, look as human as the rest of us. After the jump is a particularly wonderful model tumble from a recent Charleston, SC Fashion Week runway show. Correction: This is actually a boutique owner, not a model (hence the bow). But, it's still funny. So there.

One of YouTube's few deserving runaway hits, Brandon Hardesty got popular first for his skit "Strange Faces And Noises I Can Make III." Then he started re-enacting famous movie scenes. Sounds boring! Except Brandon is so energetic, so funny, and so faithful to the original that you feel like you're watching the movie again. (My favorites were The Big Lebowski and There Will Be Blood.) Now Brandon's making it in Hollywood, as he explains in the video below. Fun to hear a young talent talk about his acting coach, his manager, and how fucking great his life is.

Improv Everywhere is the cosmic balance to Gawker: a group of real-world performance artists who generally make people feel like the world is a magical place. And in this clip that's been making the rounds, they turn a little league baseball game into a major league match, with an NBC sportscaster, a Jumbotron, and I won't ruin the rest. See below.

· First there was Ninja Warrior. Then came Unbeatable Banzuke. Now, we are holding our collective breath in hopes that the G4 Network brings Screaming Japanese Man to these fine shores. Until then, this will have to do. [YouTube]
· Hey you guys, do you like popular culture? How about the internet? If you answered "Yes" to both of these questions, we'd like to wholeheartedly recommend that you pay Videogum a visit. Co-written by longtime friends of Defamer Gabe Delahaye and Lindsay "Lindsayism" Robertson, we think it will make for a nice addition to your daily routine. Give it a whirl, wontcha? [Videogum]
· For those of you who enjoy both chocolate products and cannibalism equally (and frankly, who doesn't?), we're fairly certain you're gonna get a kick out of this: Newborns made of chocolate! [Pravda]
· We like Tay Zonday and "Chocolate Rain" quite plenty, but we would never get him tattoed on our arms. Nope, his face deserves Tramp Stamp placement all the way. [Blogger]
· And lastly, while we're not generally the type to toot our own horn, it's worth noting that the impossibly shiny-haired Olivia Munn gave us a shout-out on Attack Of The Show last night. The video clip appears, as things often do here, after the jump.

Pictured is a screen capture of the avatars assembled in Second Life for yesterday's last week's congressional hearing about virtual worlds. Why is congress giving Linden Lab the time of day? Terrorists, silly! According to Jane Harman, D-California, "Islamic militants are suspected of using Second Life, the Internet virtual world, to hunt for recruits and mimic real life terrorism." That's quite the bait to dangle in front of congress for free publicity, Linden Lab PR team! Full clip from the Daily Show after the jump.

Last night's double dose of The Hills was so jam-packed with Words of Wisdom that Intrepid Defamer Videographer Molly McAleer feels, like, one thousand percent smarter after putting this piece together. And you'll feel similarly after watching, we promise. From Friendship 101 to deep discussions on ancient British proverbs ("It's just water under the bridge. Wait, is 'water under the bridge' an expression, right?"), Lauren, Heidi, Whitney and Methanie Pratt were dishing out more stellar advice than Dr. Phil. And, as usual, one of our favorite gems came from nudie photo scandal subject Audrina, who pretty much summed up everything we're going to learn from our blonde life professors this season: "That's weird how the world works." So. True. [MTV]

Can you believe it's been eight years since Mrs. Frank Gifford "left" her post as co-host of Regis & Kathie Lee? (Yes kids, before there was Kelly, there was Kathie Lee.) It seems like just yesterday that the former pageant queen was smothering us with her cackling chatter and inane stories. But that was yesterday; this is Today.

If I shot sixty-five videos a day I'd probably want to scream too. Slate interviews Jim Kosek, loud jokey weather reporter for Accuweather.com, in the clip below. Maybe it's just because I grew up without a zany local weatherman, but I'm less annoyed than amused; I actually want Jim Kosek to give me my forecast. Look below, see if you like him.