Penguins, from the BBC. If you like this, there’s also a cool making of video. Via Very Short List.

I love this time-lapse video of Chad Pugh’s creation of the illustration Science Machine, especially as it sheds light on the inspiration for Vimeo’s brilliant login page, commissioned from Chad. My partner Fred was just talking about this yesterday — Jakob and his team showed that even a login page can be beautiful, and we ripped off the concept immediately for Channel Frederator, but we’re still thinking through what that inspiration really implies for everything else we do. 

Ben Stiller’s closing song. 

Finally finished watching Comedy Central’s 2008 “Night of Too Many Stars” autism education benefit on my DVR. They did a great thing towards the end, embedded above: donors who had given more than $200 during the evening (they had been asking mostly for $50 and $100) were worked into a song by Stiller, Fred Armisen and Will Forte.  If they nominated this today, I’d vote for it for the Interactive Emmy — a perfect use of live TV, the web, and good old fashioned 800 numbers.

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Cat playing a theremin. 

Bambi Meets Godzilla - a 1969 cartoon that Fred and I talk about every once in a while, but I guess not everyone has seen.  It was created by Marv Newland, as the cartoon makes abundantly clear, and kicked off an animation career that included work for Sesame Street, MTV and Nickelodeon. Fred blogged about him a little while back and called him “a visionary” and “the greatest,” but not enough of Marv’s stuff is available online. There’s no shortage of copies of BmG on YouTube, though — like Mr. Bill, it would have been all over the web if it hadn’t preceded it by a good 20 years.

Great idea, perfect execution. samreich writes:

Rock Band Traffic. Streeter had this idea, and we gave it to our visual effects team, Ghostlight, to create. It isn’t funny, but my god is it cool.