[vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/2884813] Vimeo lists (in no particular order) their top 25 favorite videos uploaded to their site in 2009. These are some worthwhile videos to watch while you are resting during your holiday staycation.
In case you were wondering this is what Darth Vader would wear to his track meets on the Death Star. After his closest rival coincidentally choked in the middle of a tight race (running a 5k can be tough on a wheezing robotic heart...), little Anakin won all his races completely uncontested.
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Dictator, war-criminal kitsch brought to you by Charles Kraaft and Mike Leavitt with their Kim Jong Il teapot. $1200 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4X2DuLisc] Watch Patrick Stewart channel his best Hamlet in this clip from Sesame Street. Although if I was a kid, I'd be so confused and intimidated by the letter "B" after viewing this that I would avoid using this letter at all cost.
I would live in Baltimore just to wear [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/8182306] Spike Lee stitched a montage of meaningful scenes for this music video to Michael Jackson's fittingly titled "This Is It."
In unrelated news, Oral Roberts posthumously releasing his final sermon titled "It's surprisingly warm here."
All palindromic fans should be looking forward to the second day of the new year in 2010.
That day is a palindromic date in standard American (mmddyyyy) format: 01-02-2010, expressed backwards as a date is precisely 01-02-2010.
The Grey Lady also presents some related puzzles for you math-do-gooders (Paging Doctor Mad DR2 aka the smartest guy I went high school with, seriously).
Highlights from a 1994 documentary about Wildwood, New Jersey. Things haven't really changed it appears-just more hair gel and tanning. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eqCBCUawKY]
Highlights from the 1994
Karl Grandin's hideously great wool and cotton knit sweater is patterned with 180 corporate animal-shaped logos. Can you name all the brands?
Genius fitted hat for LA haters. $100 
Over 4,000 books were used in this installation titled "Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour of Invisibility" by Anouk Kruithof.
A shirt for the holidays by Designers Anonymous. If you spill some red wine on it, the shirt can be worn inside-out where it says "Emergency T-Shirt."
Neat chairs with a bit of humor by Peter Andersson. As a chronic lean back-er when sitting in a chair, I particularly like Andersson's "Tilt" chair.
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Andy Warhol, 1958.
Evan Blackwell's "Disposable Heroes" is a collection of busts made from common ordinary items, such as red Dixie cups and plastic forks.
Good Magazine recap this decade through the lens of culture.
2001September 11th devastates the world.
Kofi Annan wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikipedia launches, forever changing the face of human knowledge.
Apple introduces the iPod, revolutionizing music culture, and a new generation of white-earbudded youngsters takes to the streets.
And that iPod only held 512 MB of music.
These events feel like it happened both yesterday and a long, long time ago. Is there a word for this feeling? If there is, it's probably a long German word, right?
Alec Baldwin's take on the ups and downs of his career.
"I made films from about ‘86 until ‘99. And then things started to really wind down. When your fortunes ebb in the movie business, it’s like The Sixth Sense: You’re dead and you don’t know it."
Who would have thought back in 1990 after seeing The Hunt for Red October that that Jack Ryan would be a star today, not as an action hero, but as hilariously caustic Jack Donaghy? Not I said the fly.