Completely awesome animation, great job!

An amazing slow-motion look at water drops interacting with water.

Just think about all those tiny rain drops sub-dividing this many times before finally winding up in the puddle outside your door.

I really loved the two episodes This American Life just did on the health care system! It was profound, informative, entertaining and really served to highlight the problems with the system in easy to understand terms. Of course, it really gives you a sense of how very hard it is to fix everything, but it’s definitely worth checking out!

Part 1: More Is Less

Part 2: Someone Else’s Money

So awesome!

I’m quite excited to see what happens when Conan O’Brien takes over the Tonight Show Monday. He has always been my favorite late night talk show host, he is more absurd and out there than anybody else, very affable and hilarious.

But I really wanted to share this article because it helped me empathize with what he is going through. He has my full support, here’s rooting for you, Cons!

I just saw the new trailer for The Hangover and I gotta say it looks pretty funny! I’m so glad Zach Galifianakis is getting to do more crazy stuff, hopefully stuff he enjoys. I know from listening to interviews with him he’ll take a lot of work, and not always stuff he’s going to proud of afterward. But his stand up is really amazing, it’s definitely where he is most comfortable. If you haven’t seen his DVD Live at the Purple Onion you really should! It is a joy to behold!

Update: To celebrate The Hangover’s release June 5th, the most awkward talk show ever (yes, much more awkward than Late World) Between Two Ferns has Bradley Cooper on.

Wow, this single awesome video gave me a two-for-one deal. I insisted Andrew and Richard watch what would be the best Rock Band song ever. Difficult across the board and a guaranteed smile on your face the whole time!

It is Focus – Hocus Pocus, that is to say it is the 70′s band Focus, also known for their song Sylvia. The drummer fills faster than YouTube can keep up, the guitarist races through some intense solos, all the while the bass steamrolls through, and that keyboardist/vocalist is an animal! Lyrics are completely unnecessary when you have this guy’s range!

Yeah, that’s right! Yodeling! Whistling! Flut-ing around! “Vocalist” is too quaint a description for the man with the crazy hair and/or eyes!

Check out that flute solo!

Of course the video lends itself toward arguments, like whether or not the yodeling sounds like the Price is Right yodel song. My position:

Yes, I agree there’s yodeling involved

But just because one yodel enters the popular consciousness does not make all yodels like it.

I love Apple, but I also have a sense of humor about it. The Onion people are geniuses.

Obviously the writer’s strike has taken a toll on things this season. New shows have been hard to come by, and good shows at that… I can only name one. It is an American remake of a British sitcom The Worst Week of My Life. It is about a guy, to whom an inordinate number of bad things happen, and through association, his fianceé and her parents are dragged into the bad things as well.

It is an interesting exercise in television writing as they start out each episode with a barely-there status quo where everybody has had enough time to cool down from the last horrible incident (normally shown in a short clip) and quickly builds motivation upon mishap upon excuse to bend the story toward a relatively believable yet insane ending. It is fairly predictable in the short term (something important is introduced and almost assuredly going to go wrong) but you swiftly end up far from where you could have imagined it going in the beginning of the episode. You definitely would not want to hear about an ending out of context but it would probably make you wonder how they got to that destination.

The acting is uniformly top-notch, especially last week’s episode with Fred Willard on it. Comic genius that guy, he was also recently on Pushing Daisies (a great new show from last year if you even remember it). And for those out there that think women just aren’t as funny as men, I’ve got news for you: Erinn Hayes is an incredible comic actress. I’m willing to see anything she’s in thanks to this show. Additional proof of her awesomeness here: Children’s Hospital, the Rob Corddry web series.

Worst Week is on Mondays at 9:30 ET on CBS, and a great companion to How I Met Your Mother at 8:30, although I would skip all two and a half of the men between the two.

This may be one of my favorite animated shorts ever.

It’s a hilarious, well-choreographed steam-punk fight between two dandies in giant robots! What’s not to love?