Not sure whether to put this here or in the music video thread... but it's fun.

No embed because it's about the NSA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wa_4G0_xi0

Very clever educational and amusing music video. The video and the soundtrack are intended to go together.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes

Very clever educational and amusing music video. The video and the soundtrack are intended to go together.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

That was excellent!

I can tolerate typos in forum posts, and I don't mind people taking some liberties in writing, but there's a limit that beyond I figure someone is simply an idiot. How difficult is it to learn your own language? For some people, it's nigh unto impossible.

One of my pet peeves is numerical agreement. It drives me nuts.

From the video, I am a fan of the Oxford comma except in some particular circumstances. I've seen too many times where people drop it and the sentence becomes unintelligible/ambiguous.

Jury's out on "whom".

Weird Al really does do some good stuff.

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(Newser) – For two Harvard University undergrads, what began as "an excuse to eat a lot of cake" may turn into the invention of a lifetime. John McCallum, a 20-year-old from Louisiana, was daydreaming about cake his freshman year during his “Science of Cooking” class when he happened to see someone spraying whipped cream and thought to himself, why not spray cake? Is that possible? He and his girlfriend and fellow student Brooke Nowakowski went on to prove that it is, winning first place and $10,000 in the 2014 Harvard Innovation challenge, reports ABC News. Their "Spray Cake" involves spraying cake batter from a can, then cooking it for one minute in a microwave. You can also cook it in a traditional oven, and they say it will cook faster than typical batter because the spraying helps release air bubbles inside, prompting it to rise in the absence of baking soda or baking powder.
The ultimate test, though, came when the duo recently took Spray Cake—which, with just 30 seconds in a microwave, can also make cupcakes—to pastry chef Joanne Chang, who first inspired McCallum's idea when she lectured in his class about how cakes rise. The result? A big thumbs-up. When McCallum first told her about the idea, "He was just like, 'Cool. Lab project,'" Nowakowski tells the Boston Globe. “But I thought it could go somewhere.” Both are careful to say that Spray Cake isn't meant to replace cakes baked lovingly from scratch, but is instead an improvement over ready-bake mixes.  The pair, who will be juniors in the fall, are working on patenting it and are trying to find a manufacturer.

Harvard Students Invent Cake From a Spray Can - The 2 students get a big thumbs-up from a Boston culinary star

Love the penguin-polarbear one 

Yes, a cute joke. You'd have to be brave to do that.  Pretty special penguins too, to have travelled so far.
Reminds me of the April 1st spoof one of the British TV channels did a few years back. It was a nature documentary about the penguins assembling in preparation for their annual migration - just as they started to fly to a warmer climate for the winter.

It was a nature documentary about the penguins

That would be this BBC special report I believe. 

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4 Bizarre Rules for Naming Fictional Characters  Cracked.com

That was pretty good.

Reminds me of the April 1st spoof one of the British TV channels did a few years back. It was a nature documentary about the penguins assembling in preparation for their annual migration - just as they started to fly to a warmer climate for the winter.

I remember that quite fondly.  I'm a little embarrassed to admit, but I did get a little wet-eyed when those little guys began to flap, lift, then soar.  I managed to breathe out "... look at 'em go!..." before I totally choked up.  The very idea of such gravity-bound creatures having 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' was, at that moment, overwhelming.

Well, that and well-chosen background music...