Maz Jobrani was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States when he was six.  He was part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour whose DVD is out.  He also do solo touring and has been on the Tonight Show as well.

He has some middle eastern comedy acts in his skits, but they are all done in good taste.  In fact, he wants to dispel some of the Middle Eastern stereo-types.  He says, just once he wants to see an Middle Easterner on TV doing regular things (like baking a cookie)…

On NPR interview with Terry Gross, Maz talked about his acting career and how he was on the hit TV show “24″.  Maz Jobrani attended University of California at Berkeley and even enrolled in the PhD program in UCLA.  His mother had wanted him to become a doctor, lawyer — okay, or say car mechanic (instead of acting).

Maz is well-known enough to be on Wikipedia.  More about Maz Jobrani and his tour schedule on his website.

This is such a beautiful song — not just in the music but in the words as well. It is often played in high school graduations.

Steven Purugganan of Massachusetts set some world records in Sport Stacking at the 2009 WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships. You can see videos of him breaking the world record at WorldSportStackingAssociation.org. This is a sport where you stack cup in various formation and you try to stack them as fast as you can. It requires fast and good hand-eye coordination.

Steven is 11 year old as of this writing. He has been doing it for some time, below is an older video of him being interviewed by a local radio station.

MS Paint is a paint program that comes with Windows operating system. MS Paint does not come close to having all the features of Photoshop; it has only the very basic painting tools. However, if you are a artist, you can make due with whatever tools you have. Below is a video of someone who painted a replica of the famous Mona Lisa artwork using only MS Paint in 2.5 hours.

Some amazing and humorous hand-puppet works performed with music.

If you have worked in an office, you know what it is like to have a co-worker comes in sick. This animated Dilbert cartoon shows this humourously.

Technology Students Mess with Dormitory Lights - Funny bloopers are a click away

David Pogue, New York Times columnist, starts off with a funny song about tech support. Before the talk has ended he also did a funny “Bill Gates Song” and another funny song on Steve Jobs. The rest of his talk is quite funny too as he shows why people like simplicity and as he shows examples of the opposite.

Watch Michael Moschen’s unique juggling act set to music and motion.

For better sound quality, you can listen at MP3 at JonathanCoulton.com or on listen to Jonathan Coulton on Last.fm.

Or read the lyrics as you listen.

Last.fm has more videos of Jonathan Coulton.

This is a song by Jonathan Coulton about a software coder (code monkey) who likes a girl. Jonathan quit is day job of writing code, and now he writes songs instead.  You can find more songs by Jonathan Coulton at JonathanCoulton.com

This great animation was by Alan Becker. The original is at alanbecker.deviantart.com where he mentioned that it took him three months to do.

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Here is a funny conversation between Alan Greenspan and David Letterman. Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, tries to explains to Letterman what his role is when he was in that position. And I think he did a good job explaining it.

I always like to hear Alan Greenspan speak. Because as he says himself, “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said”.

Alan Greenspan’s memoir is The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

This mechanised robot dog by Boston Dynamic does a pretty good job of navigating through various terrains such as gravel, snow, and ice. It stumbles a few time when pushed or slipped on ice, but it knows how to recover quite well.

The below video is one of my favorite song “Never Say Goodbye” from one of my favorite artist Hayley Westenra.

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This song as well as some other favorites are on her album “Pure” (Purchase MP3 download)

Here are some more videos of Hayley Westenra, the young New Zealand pop music star…
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In this hilarious speech, Tim Gard starts out explaining why he like flying and his comic vision. He ends with chicken feet.