Everyone likes a story with a happy ending. Just a few days ago, the Columbus Dispatch of Ohio posted a video of a homeless man named Ted WIlliams asking for money on the side of the street. What's special about Ted is the contrast between his appearance after years of drug and alcohol abuse and then homelessness, and his beautiful radio voice. His story was so charming that in the past few days, not only has this clip been viewed over 6 million times, but he has been offered a dream job and even housing.

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Pogo, the world-class audio/video mash-up artist of "Alice" and "Upular" fame, is working on a new project: mashing up and remixing cities around the world. He's raising money to travel for the project on Kickstarter, and has released this week the results of his maiden voyage to Johannesburg. It's a tremendously ambitious project, but seeing how well he's done with Joburg inspires confidence in his ability to capture character in short clips of sounds and images.

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Stop motion animator PES makes incredible short films, and his latest, "The Deep," is no exception. Depicting a series of underwater scenes with only metal objects, he somehow manages to capture the fluid motion of aquatic life in rigid structures.

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It was supposed to be so easy—send some hidden cameras up to the icy north to film some candid polar bear footage. But the researchers who hatched this plan didn't count on the curiosity of the bears. It's not the footage they were looking for, but the shots of these bears systematically discovering and destroying the cameras are pretty interesting in themselves, and have made these wild guys the biggest polar bear celebrities outside of Berlin.

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Yesterday saw a single-shot time-lapse video of the snowstorm that tore through greater New York on Sunday. While that was still being uploaded, though, New Yorker Jamie Stuart was hard at work on his own blizzard documentation: a beautiful short film about the city and the blizzard which was—incredibly—shot and edited completely in less than 24 hours. It's compelling and thoughtful, and amazing timely.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's cold out there. For weeks now, European airports have been struggling to get out from under all the snow, and now across the Atlantic parts of the Northeast—including New York City and New Jersey—are getting pounded. One intrepid New Jersey resident, Mike Black, wanted to document the sheer mass of snow about to fall, and set up his camera to capture a series of time lapse images of a table in his backyard. In 30 seconds, more snow than seems possible just buries everything in sight.

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We're getting to the end of the year, the time when you anticipate a great looking forward with one final look back. And what a year 2010 has been for online videos. There have been too many new entries to the canon to even name all of them, but Videogum has put together a year-end wrap-up that manages pretty effectively to capture the spirit of the times. Enjoy!

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During the holiday season, many people pick up from their job and friends and go home to be with their family. When that's not possible, there are usually long distance greetings: a phone call, a card, maybe even a video chat. Nobody's making a long distance greeting from any further than this group, though. The crew of the International Space Station have put out the holiday decorations, and they're sending greetings to the people of Earth.

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The Lonely Island, the American comedy group behind megahits like "I'm on a Boat," "Like A Boss," and their ur-hit "Lazy Sunday," is crude. And they're sophomoric. But they also seem to be incapable of producing anything that doesn't go crazily viral. In "I'm on a Boat," they teamed up with autotune superstar T-Pain, whose involvement was a massive wink at the ridiculousness of the genre; here they've joined forces with R&B singer Akon in a song that seems to parody his directly. Uploaded on Saturday, it's already soared past 3 million views.

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Is Warner Brothers the first studio to (finally) learn about the "Streisand-Effekt"? Last week, a conspicuously well-produced parody "alternate ending" to the upcoming film "Yogi Bear" came out on YouTube that improbably credited the real film's cast and crew. In a common sense move that still feels astonishing, Warner Brothers (the studio who's making the real film) has stated that they won't try to go after the parody. Smart.

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It's not flashy, and it's got none of that MTV-style editing, but Ross Gardner's "You Need to Get Off Facebook" is a funny and straightforward argument deploring the social network in question for its ability to make relationships shallower and attention spans shorter. Of course, there's not a lot of deference paid to factual accuracy—since when is Facebook responsible for people using IM abbreviations?—but the video is entertaining nonetheless.

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Wer wie ich gerne an Photoshop-Reglern rumdreht, wird sich über dieses Rap-Tutorial freuen. Bin mal gespannt, ob der Typ demnächst auch neben meinem Rechner steht und mir die Lösungen ins Ohr flüstert sprechsingt. No talking while I'm shopping, that's the number one rule.

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It can be a problem, when you are a world leader, to get honest feedback. Especially when you run a tight ship like Vladimir Putin. Like the proverbial emperor without clothes, one gets the feeling Putin must occasionally look silly because nobody will tell him not to. This video of him singing "Blueberry Hill" is the proof.

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As the end of the year rolls around, many people start to think about cataloging the year in media. Over the last few weeks, and into the next few weeks, newspapers and magazines will publish their top 10 movies, songs, or albums. YouTube user Gen I. didn't waste time with the top 10 or even 50 movies this year, and didn't use a list as the easy way out. Instead, in "Filmography 2010," she mashes up over 250 films that came out this year in a mesmerizing semi-narrative.

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Last week, British students protested hikes on tuition, not by forming Facebook groups or making a hashtag into a trending topic, but by actually taking to the streets. Now, in a move that blends the new with the old, that group of protesters has a viral video to pass around. A 15-year-old student eloquently and passionately explains that his generation is not post-ideological, and that they're not going anywhere.

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