Is this a video showing a woolly mammoth crossing a river in Siberia? Probably not, but it’s an intriguing possibility.

There are three possibilities here. 1. It’s actually a woolly mammoth. 2. It’s a hoax, either by way of intentionally blurring the video to hide the truth, or by the use of Photoshop. 3. It’s a misreading of the situation.

I think we can safely count out the first option. The woolly mammoth has been extinct for 4,000 years, it isn’t coming back. Which leaves a combination of numbers 2 and 3.

My guess is this is a bear crossing the river. Possibly carrying a fish in its mouth. Maybe the cameraman knows this, maybe he doesn’t. But why not keep everything ambiguous to sell a story and start a mystery?

This is the kind of video that really needs to introduction of description. Just watch it and be awed. This is Needing/Getting by OK Go.

Now that you have watched it – I hope you have – we can dissect it. This is OK Go, a band now known primarily for their innovative music videos. And this is perhaps their greatest yet.

It may not be as deceptively simple as the infamous treadmills video, but the amount of effort (and money, no doubt) that must have gone into making this is beyond imagining.

The concept is simple: set instruments up, so that when you drive past them in your adapted vehicle they play a tune. Have the driver sing his part while doing so and there you have it. Absolutely amazing. And worth watching again and again.

If you want to sell a cheap Android tablet then what better way than to blur the lines between your product and the market-leading Apple iPad. Hell, you could even mock Steve Jobs for having died!

This is an advert for the Action Pad from AXN, a Taiwanese company. The product is an Android tablet, and the company thought it would be suitable to use a Steve Jobs lookalike with wings as their frontman.

This commercial proves two things: the iPad is considered the greatest tablet computer, hence the need to mimic it; advertising companies will stoop to the lowest levels in order to shift a product.

I wouldn’t buy one of these things just on the strength of this ad. It’s unnecessarily crass and basically mocks Steve Jobs’ presenting style and mannerisms. Shameful.

The Simpsons is a great show. Not as good as it used to be, granted, but still better than 90 percent of the other crap that populates the airwaves these days.

The theme tune is also awesome. But even that could be improved upon…

Nick McKaig has done just that, covering The Simpsons‘ theme tune just with his voice. He recorded individual tracks for all the various parts of the song, before editing it together into a glorious whole.

I can state quite categorically that I wouldn’t have either the time, the patience, or the skill to do this myself. Unlike many of the crap videos I watch on YouTube.

This is a stunning viral video imagining what happens in a bookshop after dark. All the books come to life, the shelves heave with motion, and eBooks are left looking ugly in comparison.

This is a viral video extolling not one specific bookshop or chain of bookshops, but books as a whole. Real books, made of paper and card, rather than their digital equivalents.

The problem is that although many of us love the feeling of holding a real book in our hands, which is far superior to holding an eBook reader, traditional books are clearly becoming a thing of the past.

In the same way music has already switched to a digital commodity, so will books. Movies and games are already well on their way too. You had better hold onto to the books you love as they won’t be around forever.

It is Occupy Oakland versus the Oakland police all over again – and the protesters are still peaceful.

Of all the Occupy protest places, Oakland seems to have the most problems – and the most violence.

Over the weekend the police again clashed with protesters, firing rubber bullets, flash-bangs and tear gas into the crowd.

It seems more and more clear the police there are not interested in peaceful protests – from the video this one is clearly escalated by the police.

Does anyone recall the days when the police were there to serve and protect the public rather than corporate power?

James Bond is cool, right? Suave, sophisticated, able to get any woman he desires. Maybe. Or perhaps he’s just a bit of an arsehole when all is said and done.

This video shows clips from the various James Bond movies down the years, with all the different actors who have portrayed the spy making an appearance.

But forget the visuals, this is all about the lyrics. James Bond is shown up for being an absolute douchebag, sleeping with women he doesn’t care about, killing lots of people, smashing up towns and villages, and generally being a prick.

I may watch future Bond movies with a different mindset after seeing this. Starting with Skyfall.

You know that horrible live-audience wooing noise in American sitcoms? The one that follows any kiss or tender moment? How about using it inappropriately, and in Saved By The Bell?

It works. We end up with a clip which is funnier than it should be.

The main thing I take away from this video is how bad the acting was in Saved By The Bell. Mark-Paul Gosselaar is shockingly bad, especially in the scene where he’s reacting to the bad news.

That’s even beyond the fact that the clothes and hair were horrible, the writing was dire, and every single aspect of the show was diabolically bad. At least looking back now. At the time it originally aired I loved it.

Take a paper cup, rip a mouth-shaped hole in it, draw some eyes on it, and then let the soda flow. Et voila, you have a splendiferous barfing cup.

This is one of the simplest ideas for a video I have ever seen. And yet it’s absolutely brilliant. Which is why it managed to go viral and gain more than 2 million views. I think it deserves more, however.

This is a trick that anyone can perform. Most fast food chains offer free refills, and soda is amazingly cheap compared to what they charge you for it. So what the hell?

Just don’t get caught doing it or you’ll probably get thrown out by an overeager employee. If that happens just tell him or her you’re uploading it to YouTube and that they can have a share of the profits when it goes viral.

This is truly one of the most bizarre video clips I have ever seen. But it’s also one of the funniest. And, rather strangely, one of the most satisfying.

The set-up is simple: This guy can hear his neighbors having sex, which they do often. Whenever they do he starts The Thin Wall Challenge, which consists of small challenges he sets himself against them finishing.

In this episode he needs to flip five or more quarters in a cup before they complete the job or he has to tase himself. Will he do it before he hears them climax? It’s enough to have me on the edge of my seat.

I won’t tell you whether he makes it to five quarters in the cup before the neighbors finish the job, so to speak. But I will say it’s very tight. Just please don’t take that out of context.

Here is a tip pulled from the big book of common sense: Before diving headfirst into water, check that it isn’t frozen.

This idiot obviously doesn’t own the same big book of common sense that I do. Because he makes the mistake of diving in headfirst without making sure that the water he can see isn’t just a thin layer sat over the top of thick ice.

This happened either in Russia or Poland, depending on which comments you believe. Either way it looks like it was one of those groups who go swimming in zero degree temperatures. For no apparent reason.

What makes this clip is the laugh emanating from the guy behind the camera. It’s a great laugh, and it’s made even better by the fact he carries on laughing even after the guy emerges with a sore head.

Have you got the post-Christmas blues? Then listen to this song. It may help a little.

Christmas is a great time of year for all those who celebrate it. The one problem being how it all comes to an end really quickly after months of preparation. This inevitably leads to a period of depression for many people.

Post Christmas Depression is an original song with some fantastic lyrics. Ones that actually made me smile and even laugh occasionally.

I really enjoyed this song. So much so, in fact, that it managed to cheer me up enough to get me out of the post-Christmas blues that hit me immediately after everyone had gone home on Boxing Day.

Thank you, Ally Morton.

We’ve already looked at the reaction in North Korea to the death of its leader Kim Jong-il. But what reaction has the new received outside of the communist country?

A slightly different one, it has to be said.

This video is from Team America: World Police. It shows Kim Jong-il, or at least an exaggerated version of him in animated form, singing I’m So Lonely. Or perhaps that should be I’m So Ronery.

This is the most fitting tribute to Kim Jong-il I could imagine. It’s not particularly nasty – some people are saying a lot worse things about him than this – and will give all those outside North Korea a laugh.

As if their butter shortage wasn’t bad enough, the poor people of Norway have been forced to endure crass American jokes about the crisis. But no more! A Norwegian singer called Tommy is fighting back.

Following in the steps of Chris Crocker, Tommy implores us to imagine a world without butter, indeed a Christmas without butter. He hopes we’ll think of a time when the amount of butter in your tub is barely enough to smear on a slice of toast, let alone cook a pussycat cake.

So let’s lay off the jokes and spare a thought for the Norwegians as we’re gather around our Christmas tables. Otherwise Tommy might just hunt us down!

You’ve got to love Google. OK, so maybe not the corporate side of the company, the sometimes-intrusive advertising, or the fact it shutters products quickly. But its easter eggs are cool.

The latest Google search easter egg is very topical for Christmas. And here is how to turn it on…

Go to Google.com and type ‘Let It Snow’ into the text box. The normal search results will appear, but then it will begin to snow. Eventually snow will fill up the screen, enabling you to draw in the snow using your mouse.

This is awesome, but I’d make the most of it while you can. I’d guess the Let It Snow Google easter egg will only work for a small amount of time. Until the new year, possibly.

This is a synchronized Christmas lights display set to a dubstep track by Skrillex. It shouldn’t work, really, but it does.

Dubstep is a music genre that has shot up massively in popularity during the past couple of years. What was once a purely underground scene is now just entering the mainstream.

With that in mind a synchronized Christmas lights display set to dubstep was a no-brainer. And it has happened. Thankfully it works extremely well. The music may not be very seasonal but the lights are.

A few years ago we highlighted 10 of the best synchronized Christmas lights displays. And they still stand up to scrutiny even now. Get yourself in the mood for the big day by watching them again.

Ah, so that’s where my trampoline went. I’ve been looking for that all week!

I like Scotland but the weather sucks. Or in this case, blows. It’s fair to say the wind can blow hard in Scotland, rolling in off the sea and into the mainland.

When the wind started blowing very strongly last week, as in over 100mph, things got a little hairy out there. And this guy had the fright of his life when he saw a trampoline fly past the window.

His missus took great delight in swearing at him, which is actually the highlight of the video. A video which has already generated its fair share of remixes. I spy a new Internet video meme here.

Don’t mock ginger people. I warn you. They have ferocious tempers and one will soon come after you for any kind of bullying. And you don’t want it to be this kid. Because he’s not only ginger but fat too.

I actually take my hat off to this kid because he stood up for him and his kind in a YouTube video. He spoke directly to the world in trying to stop the bullying of ginger people.

Having said that he was originally arguing against South Park, which claimed that ginger people had no souls. South Park mocks everyone! By hair color, race, religion, weight, etc, etc. So it was unnecessary.

Still, his rant (which was funny enough in its original form) also led to us having this slice of genius. It works as a song, and suggests that autotune can turn anything into something that can be danced to. Soulless ginger people can dance, right?

You can keep your cheerful carolers singing whimsical songs about winter wonderlands and holly jolly Christmases. What the season needs is a bit more edge, and the creator of this festive lights show is only too happy to oblige.

A Slayer soundtrack, a menacing looking snowman, and some rocking devil horns make this one of the more memorable Christmas displays I’ve seen. It’s far from traditional, but the synchronized lights are incredibly well designed.

I’m not sure what the rest of the neighborhood thinks. I imagine it might be the kind of place that conservative parents usher their children past quickly. But I think this house rocks!

There is a high probability you’ll have heard this song. Somewhere. You may not have recognized it but you will have heard it if you know anyone with any kind of mobile device.

This is the Angry Birds theme tune being covered by Pomplamoose. They are a California-based indie band who clearly have more talent in their right toes than I have in my whole body.

The video is clever because it shows the duo getting increasingly annoyed at each other to the point of starting a fight. It mirrors the plot of the game, which sees birds trying to destroy egg-stealing pigs.

This video has had around 3 million views, which is a not-insignificant number. However, Angry Birds have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times. So there is a much bigger audience out there waiting to hear this cover.