[Video Link]Acid Rain: A short film about a man who, over the phone, tries to stop his psychotic brother from going on a killing spree. Written and directed by Martin Malone. 10 minutes long. Mild language warning.

UPDATE:  In the comments, ted and cindy give me well-deserved rebukes for posting a film about a school shooting within days of the NIU shootings.  ted calls the post "Callous, insensitive, and ignorant to post this 3 days after a school shooting."  I can't argue with that.  I should have immediately thought of the NIU shootings when I watched this film and had the common sense and decency not to post it.  But I didn't think, and I'm sorry.

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A slideshow lining up the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates with their respective Muppet identities, set to the tune of the Muppet theme music. 1 minutes, 5 seconds long.

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[YouTube Link] A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed.  Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children's early readers.  8 minutes, 20 seconds long.

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An amusing and poignant music video by Bradley Bandara. Based upon the Eric Bazilian song One of Us, which was a 1996 hit when sung by Joan Osbourne. It features a badly-costumed supreme deity accepting and rejecting friend requests, responding to prayers in the form of messages, and being barraged with IM attempts. 5 minutes, 4 seconds long.

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An amusing rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah, performed by the Turtle Creek Chorale from Dallas, TX. 3 minutes, 53 seconds long. Via Gord

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This commercial for Virgin Mobile answers the important question "What would the Christmas story be like if there had been breakdancing at the Nativity?" It's really amazing what you can discover when you go back to the original Greek and Hebrew. 1 min., 36 sec.

Via Jim Parsons

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Here is YouTube user Copinated performing John Williams' opening to Star Wars on bagpipes. 57 sec. long.

Bagpipes: people either love them or hate them. I'm in the first category. How about you?

[Video Link] Like most people, I wake up in the morning and think: why hasn't our advanced civiliation created a chicken version of Law & Order.  I mean, like, there's every other variety of Law & Order spinoff, right?

Well, the new age has finally dawned, thanks to the brave entrepreneurs at Robot Chicken. About 2 minutes long.

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Night of Racial Tension is Jeff Davis' satirical take on the George Romero's social commentary on the racial politics of the 1960s in his 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. That film was Romero's second attempt at a zombie movie. The 1964 Night of Racial Tension was more blunt in addressing racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia than the later Night of the Living Dead. Written and directed by Ryan Nagata, produced by Ryan Nagata and George Edelman; 4 minutes, 55 seconds long.

[YouTube Link] A vicious attack ad against Immanuel Kant.  56 sec.

Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ

[YouTube Link]  A compilation of more realistic love songs for the modern American male.

Get ready!  Last Saturday is Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day.  Do fun things like this:

Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/pretend-to-be-a.html Hat tip to Jim Lindgren via Instapundit

[YouTube Link]  A faux commercial for the credit card dependent lifestyle.

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. Via Instapundit.

As Alex quoted George Burns a while back "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." That doesn't happen during the holidays. Be prepared. Link