Follow this link to watch Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola in a series of Japanese television ads for Suntory whisky.

Alan Bacchus examines The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema in this post from his blog Daily Film Dose.

In this NFL Films video, Will Ferrell plays Chuck Barry, the self-proclaimed "best NFL trainer in the universe," who helps train USC center Ryan Kalil for the NFL draft.

"After a rather inauspicious career as a walk-on USC linebacker (five career tackles, five career ejections for unorthodox play) and what amounts to tryouts with 12 NFL teams in the 1970s, Barry set his sights on molding young men. His revolutionary style of training -- including "Crab Legs", the "Twinkie Drill" and "The Old Caboose" -- has made an impact on USC players like Kalil, Matt Leinart and others."

On Friday's premier of Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers began by saying, "I start my day with Josh Marshall and end it with Jon Stewart." It's like I have a twin! You can watch Moyers interview with Jon Stewart here and his interview with Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall here.

Spinal Tap reunites to fight global warming.

For this year's White House Correspondent's Dinner, David Letterman presented an updated version of his Top 10 George W. Bush moments.

"It's official. Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American."

Finally, someone is asking the uncomfortable question: Was the attack on the Death Star an inside job?

This New Yorker article discusses Parkour, “a quasi commando system of leaps, vaults, rolls, and landings designed to help a person avoid or surmount whatever lies in his path,” founded in France by David Belle. You can watch videos of successful and unsuccessful parkour here.

Jazz Tube brings you "the best Jazz videos that have been collected by Jazz lovers thru out the world and made available on the great YOU Tube Web Site."

Hacking Netflix is a blog dedicated to "fully understanding" everything there is to know about Netflix. This post explains what it's like working for Netflix at a shipping center.

This NASA photo shows, "the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation's Kamchatka Peninsula erupt[ing], sending an ash cloud skyward roughly 9,750 meters (32,000 feet). Satellites often capture images of volcanic ash plumes, but usually as the plumes are blowing away. This image, however, is different. It shows the gray-brown ash cloud suspended directly over the summit."

Ricky Gervais is doing a series of television intervews with well-known comedians. Through the magic of You Tube you can watch Ricky Gervais Meets... Gary Shandling.

Tad Friend compares the British and American versions of the television show "The Office" in this New Yorker article.

The VOCO Clock is an alarm clock that wakes you with the soothing voice of Stephen Frye, the perfect valet.

"The VOCO alarm will lure a man from his secret recesses with the sound of gentle birdsong. This is followed by a discrete cough. Then the comforting words, "Good Morning, Sir," insinuate themselves into the room. This is followed by a message -- a different one every morning (there are three months' worth, before they start repeating, depending on how you use the clock). They say things like:

I'm sorry to disturb you, Sir, but it appears to be morning. Very inconvenient, I agree. I believe it is the rotation of the earth that is to blame, Sir."

Glenn Greenwald explains why the national media is failing in its coverage of the U.S. attorneys scandal in this post from his blog.

"The overriding goal of most of our national media elites is to preserve the prevailing Republican power system that rules Washington because of how beneficial that system is to them. As a result, they admire and want to protect those who rule that system, and thus reflexively view scandals which entail accusations of true corruption by our political leaders -- and especially unpleasant formal investigations and threats of criminal prosecution -- as frivolous and inherently false and unfair."

The Top 11 Underground Transit Systems in the World

John Rogers explains what is wrong with the Fox News Daily Show rip-off, The 1/2 Hour News Hour, in this post from his blog, Kung Fu Monkey.

Malcolm Gladwell discusses "The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters" in this Observer article.

Panoramas.dk presents 360 degree panoramas of the six Apollo missions to the moon.