Robin Williams On Dubya

Wandren sends us this video of Robin Williams fondly recalling the past 8 years:

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=puMz1Q3E000[/youtube]

A Farewell Song for George Bush: "What You Doin' Standin' Around?"

This man on his own could fill a Top Ten list of good-bye music for our 43rd President, but the pertinence of this song's message makes it our 4th nomination:

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XR80U_DQwFE[/youtube]

See all the Farewell Song contest entrants

Bleed The World

Too many videos in the past couple of days? Possibly. But who could resist this Band Aid/ economic meltdown mashup? We present Bleed The World:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQo_HIg-o8&eurl=http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/band-aid-for-the-ban.html&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[Bleed The World, via Boing Boing]

Flying Autonomous Killer Robot (video)

From The ThirdEye Concept comes this amazing video of Lockheed Martin's "frightening, but fascinatingly cool hovering robot - MKV (Multiple Kill Vehicle) ... designed to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPFj8kGXnwk[/youtube]

As Bruce Schneier says, "Okay, people. Now is the time to start discussing the rules of war for autonomous robots. Now, when it's still theoretical."

One word for you: Skynet.

Iran: A Nation Of Bloggers

Posts may be thin on the ground this week so I thought I'd share this video, which is particularly pertinent in the context of a previous post on Enduring America that's still getting a lot of readers. This short video takes as its jumping off point the claim that Iran is the "third largest country of bloggers." Blogging, it argues, is a means for Iran's young people to evade state control- "a revolution within the Revolution":

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2232226[/vimeo]

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

More info here [via Boing Boing]