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The people who make Onion happen are ingenious. The dripping sarcasm always refreshes me when I see those clips.

Anonymous Hero Donates Hospital 200 Human Kidneys – They left a note in the bag that indicated that they might be making
more additional donations in the future (the same time a bloody letter
is shown “This is only the beginning!!!”).
Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful To Monkeys – test group of 300 monkeys was stabbed with sharp edged objects.
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election – From now on we at Diebold will properly see to it that our illusion of democracy is properly guarded.
Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot – a series of concentric red circles have begun emanating from this glowing red dot in the big blue area over my left shoulder.
Kim Jong-Il’s Approval Rating Plummets to 120% – from 150%.
Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again – A record crowd 3,000 people came out to not see the ninjas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0

And after that see the Craig Fergusson version – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYBTlI1-fHg

I also suggest you watch some Youtube with the keyword scientology. It seems to be a very popular cult among the Hollywood celebrities – they even have a “scientology celebrity center” – I guess to recruit new followers to “up” the churches reputation.

Some movie stars that are scientologists: Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, John Travolta and a bunch of others.
Scientology mini dictionary:

*KSW (short for Keeping Scientology Working): A policy written by
Hubbard in the 1960’s that requires all Scientologists to follow his
words and his rules exactly.

‘Orgs: Orgs is an abbreviation for ‘organizations’ and describes
all churches of Scientology throughout the world.

*David Miscavige: He is the current leader of Scientology.
He’s the equivalent of the Pope to the Catholics.

*Out-ethics: any behavior that violates any of Hubbard’s
rules of conduct.

*Put ethics in on someone else: make others conform
to Hubbard’s rules of behavior.

*Criminon: Scientology front group that tries to recruit through the prisons.

* SP: Suppressive Person. Anyone that doesn’t like Scientology and/or criticizes Scientology.

*PTS/SP: another Hubbard term to define behavior that goes
against Scientology rules.

*LRH technology or ‘tech’: all the Scientology policies, rules, mandates, procedures.

A really innovative game on a tablet pc. The name’s Crayon Physics Deluxe. It’s a puzzle game in development. Looks cool, but I don’t think I’m going out to buy a tablet just for that. Fortunately, there are plenty of puzzle games for us non-stylus people. So I think it goes under the category “cool but otherwise useless stuff”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI

Cool article about the Matrix Trilogy, some speculation, some hypothesis, some explanation. The basic point I guess is that the writers can always write around little problems such as the death of main character (or in plural “characters”, as I discovered reading the article from the recap of Matrix Online). One way to go is to “deny everything” – never happened, why would you think of something like that?
http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2008/matrix.html

Little glitch in the Belgium’s Tax Office
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_%E2%82%AC883_Million_Overestimate.aspx

CeBIT started and one of the news from Endgadget is the Asus Eee PC 900. It has 8.9 inch screen (larger compared to current 7 inch screen) and of course all the “usual” Eee PC goodies – Solid State Drive and Xandros Linux preinstalled. I have to say, it looks like a cool gadget, but I’d perfer it with a bigger harddrive. I guess I’ll have to wait for a year or so. Moving parts in HDD are so 1950s – SSD is the future!
The idea comes from dukelupus (in Estonian)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/

BBC World has a little video from Estonia. It’s not that cold outside, at least not always and not everyday, but it seems that they captured one of the cold days nicely
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7258200/7258220.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2#

Short videos of industrial engineering and how all the “stuff” is actually made.
http://science.discovery.com/video/index.html?playerId=1391584921&titleId=1243635978