As always, here is the playlist and the breakdown below. I haven't even hit up my usual depots for videos yet so there may be an extreme list of Bonus videos this week but it seems like Eight videos is plenty to get you ready for the weekend!

• David Byrne Interview - this may be too slow for some of you but the overall weirdness vibe to it is too amusing not to take in every second. And you actually get some good insight on The Talking Heads along the way.
• The Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop... - what's the dumbest thing you can do when you meet the Dalai Lama? Tell him a pizza joke apparently.
• Space Girl - montage of loads of ladies featured in vintage sci-fi films. It's likely better to supply your own soundtrack but there are loads of great visuals throughout. They just don't make `em like this anymore.
• Yung Jake - Datamosh - pay attention the lyrics; he's just messing with you. Some NSFW language but I love the lazy style of everything but he obviously knows what he's doing.
• Did you hear a click? - adorable couple Rita and Frank try to take a photo on their computer.. end up taking a video. The best.
• One year of the moon in 2.5 Minutes - The moon is such a fascinating thing to me.. it's remarkable to see all of its subtle movements compressed down into such a tiny timeframe.
• Werner Herzog reads "Go the F**k to Sleep" - yes, you heard Sam Jackson do this earlier in the week but there's no resisting the goodness of Herzog reading anything.. particularly this.
• Happy in Paraguay - did I post this as a Friday video years ago? Yes. Is it still hysterical? Absolutely. Maybe even better than it was before.

BONUS

• The Cooking Show: Money Shot - super cut of that "O Face" people give when they first taste the creations from a number of cooking shows. via Paul.
• Science Fare - 4 minute episode of Mike Carlo animation. It's a bit crass at times but I was quite entertained. via Will.
• Lioness tries to eat baby at the zoo - I assume you've all seen this by now but it's worth a revisit as a gentle reminder that Big Cats want to eat your children.

What happens when you're a creative person with a job that gives you way too much free time? Apparently for Morgan Cline it resulted in Kenny Chesney Serious - a repository of absolutely hysterical and absurd combinations. Little Rascal Flatts? Sheryl (The) Crow? Helen Hunter S. Thompson? (John) Denver Omelet? (Arsenio) Hall & (G)oates!? All amazing. They remind me of Brandon Bird in terms of content and that's a phenomenal peer to have in my opinion.

via Matt Curry.

Browsing through fffflckr might not always yield great results but sometimes you'll end up unearthing some mesmerizing gem like this Untitled piece from Slot. K. There are plenty of other gorgeous images in the photostream but that one in particular is hard to stop staring at.

• Stop Quitting Chrome - with the latest update to Chrome the powers that be at Google rolled out a new option to prevent you from accidentally quitting the browser when you just meant to close a tab / window. No more cursing yourself for having fat fingers and hitting Q instead of W. via Ronnie.
• ZURB jQuery Slider - while I am sure there are hundreds of options for slideshow galleries powered by jQuery (and it's not that hard to code your own) I still like to take a look at the out-of-the-box solutions. This seems like quite a nice one.

You may have seen the above video over on Boing Boing but I think it bears repeated viewings. After the Puyehue volcano eruption (remember?) a layer of ash has been descending on everything.. including Lake Nahuel Huapi that is more than 100 miles away. It's hard to imagine that undulating grey mass is actually a thick collection of ash.. and even harder to imagine what it looks like beneath the surface. Only the scuba diver knows!

via Juanzo.

There are plenty of great images to see from Carles Rodrigo's photostream but I'm particularly drawn to his series of swimming pics. There are a bunch of them (all un-collected in the stream) but I'm going to have to cast my vote for this gem certainly being my favorite.

Though it is not nearly as spellbinding as Jon Rafman's 9 Eyes, the journey of the Robot Flâneur is still a pleasant experience. Pick a city and let it languidly carry you through a series of neighborhoods and pre-selected scenes worthy of your time. This all makes much more sense once you properly recall the definition of flaneur.

• Bit.ly Pro is not Bit.ly - the services previously exclusive to the Pro version of bit.ly are now available, for free, to anyone that wants to use them. Among those services is using your own custom domain for shortening. If yk.es was available, I'd do it in a second.
• CSS Lint - you dump in your CSS, Lint pushes back errors, warnings and insight into how to make your code better. As the title says, it will hurt your feelings but it will also help you code better.

If you weren't aware, the local college radio station here in Nashville (91.1 WRVU) was recently sold to NPR and turned into a 24/7 Classical station. It is, to say the least, a bummer.

One of the bigger losses, to me, is that many of my favorite shows are now off the air forever. One such show is Out the Other - brought to you by Janet Timmons. She's always been a huge champion of the local music scene and her show did a phenomenal job of blending upcoming shows in the area from national acts, highlighting worthwhile local bands and bringing in Guest DJ's to give a slightly different musical perspective. It was, in a word, great.

Long story short, she's not letting the death of WRVU stop her from broadcast. She's taken to the Internet airwaves. Point your browser over to her site (or her SoundCloud) and download / stream the first episode of the new incarnation of Out the Other: the Podcast.

IFC has posted a preview of the documentary MAKE; a look at four self-taught artists with their own unique perspective on life. The big draw to the film is likely the fact that it includes a soundtrack with original pieces from Sufjan Stevens and Her Space Holiday as well as music from Jim Guthrie, Oneida and others. Frankly, the film itself is interesting looking enough not to need that marketing angle. I'm the first person to be a skeptic of "folk art" but I must admit, this looks intriguing.

via Mac.

Are you aware of the quasi-children's book Go the F**k to Sleep? It's the tale of a frustrated parent trying their damnedest to get their kid to doze off. Who better to read such a tale than Samuel L. Jackson? Apparently Audible.com agrees and has made his rendition of the tale a free download. Go listen to some samples. Have you ever read the iTunes End-User License Agreement (EULA)? Me neither. Turns out, Richard Dreyfuss has read it.. quite dramatically in fact.. and aloud. The ridiculous little reading was recorded by the CNET Reporter's Roundtable and shared for others to enjoy (at least in portions). Quite entertaining.

Recently I was working on adding "Send to Twitter" and "Send to Facebook" functionality for a friends site and realized that the standard hyperlinks to the respective share pages was far from ideal - especially considering this site was intended to be viewed on an iPad by a wide audience; not a desktop experience with just a singular user. In my research for how to make this experience more streamlined I read through pages of Facebook API's and Twitter's@Anywhere looking for a solution. Turns out, there is no way to authenticate a user without a pop-up window.

I understand that for security purposes this makes sense but didn't we already wage the war against pop-up windows? Did they win? How is there not an authenticated method using a secure iframe experience so that no new windows need appear?

Jed points out that with the forthcoming iOS5 this may be made easier but I have my doubts. Facebook has iOS Integration but the methodology isn't available to web users. I assume the iOS Twitter integration will be much the same - native apps can access it but not websites.

This is frustrating to say the least but I am curious if anyone has found workarounds for it? Or maybe knows of a different way to authenticate? Have we really decided that pop-up windows are our best bet?

• I Hate Your Favicon - Google Chrome extension to replace any sites favicon on your personal browser. This is handy for those sites out there that don't have favicons at all or for those that choose to use really poorly designed icons.
• Twitter @Anywhere - nice set of Javascript tools to integrate twitter authentication and direct-to-tweet posting. No need to push your user to another site to have them tweet.. in theory. There's some issues with it that I will likely rant about later.

Matt recently steered me in the direction of the work of Simon Walker, aka Super Furry. His logo and type design is jaw-dropping to say the very least. I can honestly say I've never been so invested in seeing Cider Bottle designs before today. He has a ton of hand drawn type and batch of logo work that will undoubtedly blow your mind. His type choices, color schemes and restrained use of texture are spot on.

Thanks to the fine folks in Action! I have recently become aware of the musical undertakings of Frank LoCrasto. His full-length, El Dorado, has been a daily staple ever since my exposure to it. It's difficult to describe the pleasant nature this album brings about but it's a low-key affair that creates the perfect backdrop for focusing on the task at hand - be that some computer work you have to do, or just simply enjoying your morning cup of coffee. In terms of recommendations, this one is certainly up there.

Richard Swift often posts photos to his site of whatever project he's most recently involved. Apparently one of his friends grew tired of the grainy nature of the images:

Hello on-webs. Good week. A friend perma-loaned me a Canon 20D cause she got sick of my low/no-budget grainy-ass photos. Also, I just finished recording/mixing Damien Jurado’s 10th LP. Not sure when it’s coming out, but we’re really proud of it, and are curious as to how people will respond to this fresh direction…

So, if you're curious to see what Mr. Swift does with a higher end camera and/or want to see some behind-the-scenes images of the latest Damien Jurado undertaking - point your browser here, here or here.

While I'm absolutely a fan of clean, grid-based, layouts with sparse text I have to admit that my first love will always be works in the vein of Thomas Schostok. The cut-and-paste collage look combining more textures than you can count can easily be done very poorly but, when done well, it's unstoppable in its appeal. Schostok certainly has it down - scrawled text, grime and an air of manic energy to it all. As the man responsible for the infamous BEAST Magazine it's not surprising that he is such a pro at this style but it's nice to know that he's still got it after all these years!

Did you know Mark Weaver curates a tumblr identifying Mid-Century Typefaces? I had no idea. There isn't a ton of content there ya but what is there, is great. Just try not to love Aurora Grotesk, Venus Bold Extended or Jefferson Gothic!

The Internet K-Hole is a stream of random images, presumably found in various hidden corners of the Internet. However, unlike a site ala Them Thangs the K-Hole is comprised of more contemporary images - random digital camera pics, random family portraits, quickly captured moments, etc. It actually reminds me heavily of the Found Photos Archive - another repository of non-contextual images that tell their own story.

But I digress! The Internet K-Hole is a random dump of images (some of which are NSFW / contain nudity) but it's compelling for the humor and slice of life that it brings to the table. There are hundreds of photos I'd love to direct you to and ask "What is going on here?!" but I'll let you discover your own path to the goods.

via Awesome.

While you may not have a free 24 minutes right now I do suggest you find some time today / tonight / soon to watch the Conan O'Brien Darthmouth Commencement Address in its entirety. It is, as you would imagine, hilarious.