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Videogeist: September 11 2009

AUTOCUE stuff-ups and cute cats make the world go round.

Here are our picks for web video of the week. You can submit your own favourites to technology@news.com.au.

BBC World News blooper

Here at news.com.au we love nothing more than laughing, ever so nervously, at media blooper reels.

This one from the BBC is a corker:

Strangely, it wasn’t posted to YouTube by a viewer — but by BBC’s economics and business editor Jeremy Hillman.

Hillman wrote in the video caption: “A lesson for Jonathan Charles of BBC World News on the importance of punctuation on the autocue and breathing.”

The world’s most patient cat

The only thing on the internet better than funny cat pictures is funny cat videos.

Thanks to Neatorama for bringing us this one:

Also a special mention to the Wall Of Fluff, as seen on Boing Boing. It’s a collection of fluffy animal videos you can play simultaneously for cuteness overload.

Ten nails trick

I’m not sure how often this will happen, but if you’re at a party and some dude asks you to balance ten nails on the head of another one, don’t say you weren’t taught:

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See, you do learn something new every day.

Space madness

Finally, let me introduce you to the trailer for the new film Moon â€" if you haven’t already seen it.

The film was released in the US earlier this year and features the creepiest computer ever voiced by Kevin Spacey (there may only be one).

It’s set to hit our screens on October 8:

Over and out.