That first Daily Show link really is one of the best things I've seen in a long time. They did a great job on that one.
For people with region issues, here! Something adorable that was on boingboing!
Poor Antigone squirrel has a rough day ahead.
1: That is in fact adorable. I counter with elephant-dog friendship.
I bet if the person taking the squirrel video had stuck around long enough, he would have seen a lovely act of cannibalism. I've seen them munching on their fallen comrades too many times to not think he was just saving the good bits for himself.
One doesn't quite know what to think.
Bringing the Lame Sauce to the Party.
I sort of wish I'd never heard of this.
I found that squirrel video too sad to watch.
Planes have been flying really low over my house in the past 20 minutes, one after another and another. My building is right under a major flight pattern, but I don't remember ever hearing quite so many of them so loudly.
18: But he's such a friend! He lies down next to his buddy! Awwww.
And the elephant-dog video? That's heartbreaking!
I found the comments to the video linked in 1 too sad to read. I feel that way about YouTube comments generally.
Okay, 23 is funny.
I will not be alarmed! I will not be alarmed! We are a rational people. I'm sure of it!
I know that for most people, when they hear the phrase "Bulgarian wedding music", they immediately think of Ivo Papasov and Yuri Yunakov, but I would like to recommend this album, which kicks much ass.
Actually, that Stewart video isn't region blocked, but still too annoying to watch due to an over-enthusiastic audience.
I find it really irritating how audiences start clapping in time at the drop of a hat. Did anybody ask you? Does it even make sense for the music being performed? Even if those aren't issues, no mob can know when to stop, so either it goes on way too long (as in the clip) or peters out slowly and awkwardly.
4 is exactly right. It's not like the "loyal" guy is sticking around because he's planning to deliver a eulogy. (In fact, unless I miss my guess, we already see him take a few delicate nips at his buddy in the video itself. He's pissed at the crows because they're interrupting him.)
In fairness to the squirrel, I'd be equally happy to cannibalize about half the commenters on that video.
28: From what I understand, those audiences get really seriously warmed up before the taping. They get a little manic. I can see how you'd want that if you were making, like, The Man Show, which made no sense without a wildly hooting/clapping audience, and even makes sense on Colbert, because of the ego schtick, but it seems out of place with Stewart.
It's not like the "loyal" guy is sticking around because he's planning to deliver a eulogy.
You guys have no souls.
But SRSLY. Cannibalism among squirrel-kind (and rodent-kind generally) is well-attested. Squirrel burial rites are not. There are probably good reasons for the cannibalism, too, it's not like they're just being dicks: rodents aren't lifeforms known for letting protein go to waste, and they'd rather a fellow-squirrel/rat/mouse enrich his or her own kind than some damnëd interloper of a [fill-in-non-rodent-lifeform-here]. So what's the likelier explanation for that squirrel to be there?
Oh, DS. So close. But a diaeresis indicates that each of a sequence of vowels is separately pronounced, not that a single vowel is pronounced. Stick with "damnéd".
Oh, did I use a dïaeresis in a subtly incorrect, annoying way? Little old me? *whistles innocently*
35: I, too, appreciate the hard work of the Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology and believe their important research to be underpublicized. Thank you for undertaking the important task of getting their name out there, nebbers.
35: Sometimes you don't even have to cast, just the sound of feet upon the dock will do it.