Downward spiral

Soar winner
If you’ve ever dropped a paper airplane from up on high, you might have experienced a little of what this clip has to offer...transfixed in a small moment of wonder, like the plastic bag scene in American Beauty. Simple pleasures of life seldom recaptured after age 12.
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/01/01


History Lesson with proof
This video tries to make learning fun, giving us a quick history lesson featuring Superbad star Michael Cera and friends acting out the historic duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr while our storyteller is half in the bag. Witness history as it's never been told before: Drunk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_DsL1x1uY


Party Tricks (pun intended)
More sleight of hand, this time from Steven Landsburg who has a favorite classroom trick where he auctions off a $20 bill and makes a mint. And after explaining the ruse, he somehow ties it in with campaign finance reform. Entertaining and educational.
http://www.slate.com/id/7103


QuOTeD
"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." -- Anonymous


How To Make Fire Balls
Learn to make fire balls that you can hold in your hand by watching this quick video tutorial with musical accompaniment. Great fun for the kids. Goodness gracious...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1029494/how_to_make_fire_balls/


Face-swapplication
Lovers of image challenges might be familiar with the head-swap, and now, thanks to patented interweb magic, you too can produce such heady visual effects without any basic Photoshop skills. What next? A web app to add hair to the pates of the less fortunate?
http://www.hairmixer.com/


Headless graffiti
And lastly, in a similar but far more macabre vein, renegade artist The Decapitator removes the heads from models used in advertising posters, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_decapitator/