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I just had to share this:

(From yogan's archive of lulz. Thank you Yogan!)
I've been watching VP candidate Palin on youtube, have you? Did you know she reads all the news?

And did you see the Saturday Night Live clip that totally misrepresented her?

Setanta Sports have been running a series after premier league games on Saturdays and late at night after Champion's League games, where José Murinho gives his take on the latest news. This is some of the funniest TV I've seen in weeks, and the best part is that all the episodes are on youtube! Here's Sven's debut:

Be champions...

The episode where the special one confronts the Voyeur is especially great - "surely this is legal minefield":

Oscar Pistorious is a South African sprinter hoping to compete in the Beijing Olympics. His nickname is the "Blade Runner" because of the shape of his legs. Actually, he has no feet at all and has been dubbed "the fasted thing on no legs". Pistorious' legs were amputated below the knees as a baby (he was born without fibula bones in his legs) and he wears artificial limbs. He calls these his cheetah blades, made by Össur, who are supporting him in his bid. He has broken the 100m, 200m, and 400m records repeatedly in Paralympic grades and his eyes are now set on competing with the fastest able-bodied athletes in the world in Beijing in the summer. However, there's a snag. The International Association of Athletics Federations have ruled that his cheetah blades give him an unfair advantage against able-bodied athletes and in January banned him from competing in the Olympics. He has a chance to appeal this decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the end of April. If his appeal is successful I wouldn't bet on him winning medals in Beijing (his best 400m time is still more than three seconds off the world record, and almost a second behind Olympic qualifying time) but that's not what the Olympics are about. Even so, he's only been running competitively since 2004, and he's improving at a phenomenal rate, constantly breaking his own world records. I'd expect him to break more personal records in Beijing but the more interesting question might be what could happen between now and the London Olympics in 2012.

CollegeHumor have produced a trailor for Minesweeper the movie. It looks better than Tomb Raider to me, I wonder if they could sign up Angelina Jolie to play the civilian instructor role?

With the rugby world cup final on tonight, here's a movie of one of the tournament's stars - Bryan "Cheetah Chaser" Habana:

This would explain the nickname ;-) Expect him to run riot with the English tonight...

The Pride of Arizona is a university marching band with a difference. Here they play some Radiohead for the fans:

There's a playlist here with more examples of their work. (thanks jenna.)

The Association of Independent Creative Editors ran a competition in 2005 for people to re-edit movie trailers re-cutting the film's visuals but changing the genre. The winner was "Shining" - Stanley Kubrick's horror movie re-cut as a romantic comedy (there's lots of information on Shining on the tattered coat's blog):

Since then lots more of these have emerged. My personal favourite is "Must Love Jaws" - Jaws re-cut as a love story: (thanks enda.)

Another great one is Caakth?l - Cocktail re-cut in the Bollywood style:

There's a whole website here dedicated to these trailer mash-ups.

...rather than the Thrilla in Manila. This video shows prisoners working out in Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center... and by working out I mean dancing an elaborate choreography to Michael Jackson's Thriller:

They also perform versions of Radio GaGa and Sister Act. (thanks gordo.) I wonder what Seinfeld would have thought of it.

And if you like dodgy rip-offs, check out Cracked.com's commentary on this video of India's answer to Michael Jackson.

Here's a couple of awesome videos of surfers at Aill na Searrach in May 2006 under the Cliffs of Moher in county Clare.

There's articles on the event in the Sunday Times, the Sunday Business Post, and the Independent on Sunday. "...the most perfect wave you will find in Europe." (thanks jill.)