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The supercut music video titled The Future by Eclectic Method mixes a fantastic musical track together with a condensed series of futuristic / predictive scenes from popular science fiction films. We have previously written about Eclectic Method and their collection of music and media creations.

Eclectic Method has supercut some of our favorite scenes from movies that turn a predictive eye to the future. Blade Runner’s Megacities alongside A.I.’s flooded New York and Idiocracy’s run down shanty towns. Some technology predictions in these films have already proven to be accurate and some are still a ways off – or not! … cameras on every corner, oil shortages, massive cultural uprisings in the middle east, retinal scans, X-Rays, flying cars and hoverboards, hybrid humans, robots, A.I., teleportation and so on. Who really watches Sci-Fi for the plot anyway, you wanna see the goodness condensed.

Rest assured though, in the future, as in the present, there will be both Coke and Pepsi!

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Bad Lip Reading of the First 2012 Presidential Debate.

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While everyone is enthusiastically awaiting the return of NBC's Community this fall, news broke today that the network was delaying its fourth season premiere indefinitely. Now, when I first read this, my first thought -- and many probably thought the same -- was that NBC was screwing over Community, yet again. But, as it turns out, it's the total opposite. Instead of just taking it off the schedule, launching it into further obscurity so it can die a quiet death, the network wants to put the proper spotlight on it and spend more time marketing it.

NBC released a statement saying that their current lineup of new shows is benefiting from their attention, so they've chosen to shelf the premieres of both Community and Whitney, which were originally going to premiere next Friday.

"Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week; plus, we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule changes on those nights. When we have a better idea of viewing patterns in the next few weeks, we will announce new season premieres of Whitney and Community."

So, it's very nice of NBC to spare Community from being overshadowed by all the marketing they'll be doing for their new shows. It's also amazingly ironic, considering how they have had Community on their channel for three years and barely promoted it at all, then wondered why the ratings were so bad, and then banished it to Friday nights next to one of its most reviled new shows. So, now they're going to take the time to promote it? I suppose that if it has to be on Friday nights, it's a good thing they're finally going to give it the attention it deserves. But isn't that like having an aunt who says you never, ever visit her, then when she ends up in the hospital and you realize she might die, you go see her once -- for your own peace of mind?

NBC -- your best fair-weather nephew. Check this space for the new premiere dates.

Photo credit: Trae Patton for NBC

NBC Delays 'Community,' 'Whitney' Returns [The Hollywood Reporter]

“Tackle Litter, Before it tackles you.”

Ireland’s litter problem is being addressed head on in ‘Tackle Litter‘, an anti-littering campaign by The South Dublin County Council. Watch in their video as a trash can monster literally tackles people who litter.

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“I bought too many groceries, now I have to make two trips!”

In this faux PSA video, Ryan Higa explains how thousands of people every day fall victim to FWP (First World Problems) and what steps we can all take to end these hardships. The solution lies in simple tools: a picture of a bridge, a straw, and a full cup of capped water.

Now shut the full cup

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Great animation on the universe as we know it. Who made this video?

If you’re not familiar with the awesome Skyrim, then this video will mean nothing to you. If you are familiar, then enjoy this look at how Skyrim is played!

Nicely done Timtimfed.

The Bad Lip Reading crew took a swipe at Presidential VP hopeful Paul Ryan. As usual, the results are beyond bizarre, although I must admit to liking this version of Ryan more than the real one.

PROTIP: Attempting to listen to Dubstep while packing up your apartment could lead to quite a large mess.

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Are these infomercial products actually useful or are the models just …doing it wrong?

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg drew out comically complex machines that satirized the inventor's zeal to make modern life more convenient. Here, parkour practitioner Jason Paul throws himself in the middle of a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine, complete with life-threatening tumbles and falls. More »

After years of speculation about the possible return, in movie or TV form, of “beloved by everyone but Fox and the millions who never watched” series Arrested Development, we’ve spent the past couple months swimming in tantalizing but minor views of the show’s rebirth. All the cast and creators are back on board to create ten episodes for Netflix, which will be available in 2013. (Or twelve episodes, or thirteen, or however many Mitch Hurwitz wants.)

Now we’ve got something a little more concrete, in the form of three official photos of the cast as they get back in action. AD trainspotters might be a bit disappointed in the general lack of winking in-jokes placed in these pics; we’ll have to make do with a hook hand and not much else. But that’s small stuff; how can anyone possibly complain about seeing this crew in the same frame?

I’ll admit, I’ve long been one of the people who thought the original series was best left alone. But I’m still excited to see what they’ve come up with for this reunion. I remain a bit cautious, but this is a smart bunch of people, and if they’ve collectively decided that there are good ideas in play, I want to see them. (Especially now that a couple important cast members have aged way beyond their characters’ original years.

[EW, via Buzzfeed]

• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Girls,’ ‘Walking Dead’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘Childrens Hospital’, ‘NTSF:SD:SUV’, Daniel Craig, M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Bateman
• TV Bits: ‘Parks & Recreation’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘The League’, ‘The Office’
• TV Bits: ‘The Office’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Vegas’, ‘Girls’, ‘Californication’, ‘Shameless’, ‘The Walking Dead’, Emmys, and More
• TV Bits: ‘Terra Nova’, ‘Arrested Development’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Community’, Terry Brooks
• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Revolution’, ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’, ‘The League’, ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’
• TV Bits: ‘Arrested Development’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Farm’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Jersey Shore’, Robin Williams

YouTuber Mowtendoo (creator of SigSig Emoticon videos) presents this awesome mash-up of two songs that the Internet can’t seem to get enough of: Gangnam Style and Guile’s Theme.

See those weird, black, spidery things dotting the dunes in this colorized photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2010? Yeah. Nobody knows what the hell those things are.

What we do know about them just underlines how incredibly unfamiliar Mars really is to us. First spotted by humans in 1998, these splotches pop up every Martian spring, and disappear in winter. Usually, they appear in the same places as the previous year, and they tend to congregate on the sunny sides of sand dunes — all but shunning flat ground. There's nothing on Earth that looks like this that we can compare them to. It's a for real-real mystery, writes Robert Krulwich at NPR. But there are theories:

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, from Hungary, from the European Space Agency have all proposed explanations; the leading one is so weird, it's transformed my idea of what it's like to be on Mars. For 20 years, I've thought the planet to be magnificently desolate, a dead zone, painted rouge. But imagine this: Every spring, the sun beats down on a southern region of Mars, morning light melts the surface, warms up the ground below, and a thin, underground layer of frozen CO2 turns suddenly into a roaring gas, expands, and carrying rock and ice, rushes up through breaks in the rock, exploding into the Martian air. Geysers shoot up in odd places. It feels random, like being surprise attacked by an monstrous, underground fountain.

"If you were there," says Phil Christensen of Arizona State University, "you'd be standing on a slab of carbon dioxide ice. All around you, roaring jets of carbon dioxide gas are throwing sand and dust a couple hundred feet into the air." The ground below would be rumbling. You'd feel it in your spaceboots.

Read the rest of Robert Krulwich's post — and check out some spectacular photos of the things — at NPR

Excerpt from How The Universe Works on the Science Channel, awesome show. Size comparison of the Sun to the largest stars in the universe. Sorry, I don't know how to trim these videos yet as I'm just testing the Hauppauge HDPVR.

Recess Appointment was right, this scene from Futurama sums up the highlights of tonight’s debate and every presidential debate that has ever been nationally televised.

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