More, by Mark Osborne, is regarded as one of the best short films ever created. Set in a dreary world where workers slave away creating happiness widgets for a voracious consumer culture, it could be a commentary on modern economics, anti-depressant culture, or the digital revolution.

While this piece won an Academy Award a decade ago, and is hardly new news, it was recently released in a larger IMAX format, which is enough excuse to watch it again…

Back in the days of yore, we at the BBtv team covered the upcoming release of a documentary about MMORPGers called Second Skin.

Today, the entire film can be found on Hulu. So ready your supply of Doctor Pepper and Mountain Dew, jump into a nearby Teamspeak channel, and enjoy:

Speaking of Bing, I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that this scene from Groundhog Day inspired the whole silly branding…

I wonder if they’re paying Stephen Tobolowsky royalties for his Needleheaded improvisation.

If I were Google, I would be truly frightened right now. I mean, Bing now has it’s very own jingle, and a silhouetted man doing squat thrusts in its honor.

I knew it. I just knew that the New York Knicks were part of a global conspiracy to hide the moon-based Illuminati-run space fighters from the eyes of truthseekers. You should probably sit down before viewing this…

As featured in Wired magazine, the Cybraphon is an autonomous, antique-looking music box that is programmed to compose and play its own music. More interestingly. it’s also programmed to neurotically track its own popularity on MySpace, Facebook, and the intrawebs, at large.

A happiness meter featured prominently near the head of the structure reports on how the Cybraphon perceives its search for fame is going at the moment. Unlike its human counterparts, though, the Cybraphon doesn’t post inane facebook status updates of drunken weekend Cabo pictures in the vain hope of seeming more interesting. That remains a uniquely human convention.

I’m redeeming my allowance for one reference to the birther/tea party “movement.” Unfortunately, the Commission on Sanity and Common Sense won’t allow any special dispensations beyond this. So, enjoy.

As part of its continuing quest to inspire Random Acts of Collateral Patriotism, Fox News recently posted an interactive web map of the US-Mexico border. The map uses advanced satellite imagery and a state of the art news feed to track the advance of Subhuman Non-Citizen Parasites and their Malevolent Taco Stands.

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There seems to be something cognitively appealing about the standard musical scale. Bobby McFerrin uses it here to play with a World Science Festival panel audience.

Ready your pause button…