I don't get to leave my desk the privilege to sit in on too many of these anymore but this video really hits every conference call high note. Brilliant. via doobybrain.com

Firestarter doesn't look half as scary without the music to go with it. Jamiroquai and Queen here too. via kottke.org

The phone that this commercial is advertising is a lot less impressive looking than the commercial itself (wooden phone, really?) Managing to chain together hundreds of wooden steps to play classical music is quite impressive. Reminds me slightly of the Rube Goldberg style Honda commercial from a few years ago. Timing the fall of the ball to the notes in the music its not bad, not bad at all. via Tokyomango

I'm not really sure I believe what I'm seeing in this video. Because it really does just look like a piece of plastic pushing against a spill. And I can't figure out how the hell its picking everything up! Maybe it has more to do with the surface it's on. I'd like to see it work its magic on a carpet.. via pinktentacle

More timelapse video gorgeousness from Tokyo. This one really deserves to be seen full screen instead of a tiny little wussey blog window. The planes landing are really cool. inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. via pinktentacle

Incredible footage of an approaching storm on a beach in Finland of all places. Its hard to believe a storm can actually movie this fast. I thought this would have turned out to be special effects but there's other photos of it on the intertubes. via boingboing

I'm a sucker for timelapse videos and this is another cool one; this time of that troublesome, hard to pronounce volcano. A few bits seem to linger on regular shots of a cold looking landscape, but seeing the ash and steam billow out of the vent is class and the Sigur Ros track is appropriate via mefi

Didn't see anything about this on the news here, but in this following video I can forgive the guy for one or two "oh my god"s and "that's insane". Things get pretty incredible at around the 1 minute mark..

A spectacular sunrise greeted us when we finally got back And below, a cool video showing flight paths, or lack of them, over Europe for the third week in April. When London and Amsterdam get going, the whole map goes crazy.. Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo via mefi

That's gold Jerry, gold! Man, I can't believe that's real. Just awesome..Here's the real background via almost everywhere recently

This funky gibberish from 1972 is a nice example of fake English.. It's like the lyrics are just out of reach when listening but there are real words there somewhere. via boingboing

An excellent example of design done right. Brilliantly simple, seems obvious once you see it so I wonder why this isn't in the shops yet.. via mefi

Ignore that Japanese commentary and just look at the video. This is a guy jumping off a 10 metre tower and landing in an inflatable pool with 30mm of water. Say hello to Professor Spash: I particularly like the multiple replay effect, reminds me of those old Van Damme movies.. via Kirainet.com

Tokyo really lends itself to video, so here's two more I like (both are timelapses): Nice that they use one of my favourite soundtracks in the second one.. both via pinktentacle

How am I only now finding out about this surreal anime series featuring a ramen-making cat?? I've only just watched the first Neko Ramen but I'm in the mood for more. There's a whole series of them, a dvd, a comic, and (just for good measure) a live action puppet version! If you can brave the kanji konfusion, the official site is here

You have to maneuver the claw to pick up the toy inside the glass case.. Treat the mouse button as though it were hot, sort of like a potato.. via cynical-c

Interesting Japanese government video via Pruned describing the future of food in Japan and what people should be thinking about. I'm not really sure the solution is for Japan to eat more fish, but its still pretty cool. Judging by the animation in the video, it looks like it was done by the same crowd who did the Royksopp video and that Areva energy commercial.

Hi-res version here via kottke.org