Viral Video: First Trailer for “The Hobbit” Movie

Still suffering withdrawal from an annual holiday-season Hobbit habit? Hope is but a year away.
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A Non-Viral Video You Should Watch Anyway

No cats, or Pitbull, featured here. Just an hour and a half of people talking about physics genius Richard Feynman. (PS: Plenty of stuff like this all over YouTube, for free.)
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Biggest YouTube Videos of the Year: Rebecca Black, of Course. And Pitbull?

Same as it ever was: YouTube users really like cute cats, and cute dogs, and so-bad-they’re-awesome girl singers. But what they really, really like are videos from the big music labels.
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“Oops”: Rick Perry’s Viral Classic Hits a Million Views Overnight

The Republican primaries continue to generate lots of video views for YouTube.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mall in Seoul (Video)

AllThingsD’s Ina Fried was headed to dinner during her trip to Seoul on Monday when she ran into a crowd of Koreans line dancing. Apparently, this is the Korean political system in action.
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Steve Ballmer’s First Time On Windows 8 (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Viral Video: Chatbot Throwdown

So, asked the Cornell Creative Machines Lab: “What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this …” Neither did we.
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Viral Video: Timberlake Goes From Sean Parker to Myspace to Time Thief

The upcoming movie from Justin Timberlake — who starred in “The Social Network” playing hyperactive entrepreneur Sean Parker and who recently was part of a group that bought Myspace — is also techtastic.

Viral Video: Aliens Sunk My “Battleship”

Okay, Hollywood has apparently made a movie from the classic Hasbro game “Battleship.” But instead of plastic pegs in a board, it’s chock full of special effects, aliens and a lot of explosions.
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Twitter Gets the Ken Burns Treatment From Funny or Die (Video)

“What we do know for sure is that Ashton Kutcher invented Twitter in the year 2006.”

Weekend Update, 12/12/08