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It's another remarkably beautiful but simple video from Baltimore's Future Islands. "Balance," a cut from their Oct. 11 LP On the Water , gets a video courtesy of director Jay Buim. A nomadic couple hitchhikes along, finding enjoyment in innocent pleasures that feel wholly American - parking lot mischief, carnival rides and fried dough, aimless wandering down a highway hand-in-hand. The couple have little - really, just a backpack and each other - but their moods are never morose.

When I was a high school sophomore, all I did was drink Mountain Dew, hang out in American Online chat rooms and play on my old-school Playstation. Keonta Vernon? He breaks backboards. Check out this video of Vernon, a sophomore at Tulare Union High School in California, who shattered a backboard at a recent high school basketball game (in the backboard's defense, it looked a decade or so past its prime). It's become an Internet sensation. I found it on The Big Lead , so allow me to give a hit tip to them.

Dwyane Wade "probably threw the best pass in NBA history" in the first quarter of Miami's win over Indiana on Tuesday night. At least that's what Heat teammate LeBron James believes. (You know we're talking 65 years of NBA basketball here, right, LeBron?) "Great win for us tonight in Indy! [Wade] went Ham tonight and probably threw the best pass in NBA history. Check it out. " James said via Twitter after the game. Check out the video below and let me know if you agree with King James.

We have all seen those basketball trick shot highlight reels . Some of you might have seen this bowling trick shot reel . Now we have a pretty mesmerizing football trick shot reel thanks to UConn Huskies backup quarterback Johnny McEntee. Check out this video of McEntee chucking footballs from the bleachers of UConn's basketball arena, completing blindfolded passes on the practice field and taking aim at a pizza delivery vehicle from a snow-covered parking lot. McEntee got a little help from his friends, too. Here's the video [hat tip to Deadspin via loyal reader @davewerk]

For the past few weeks there has been outrage in Muslim countries across the world because of an anti-Islam video posted on YouTube ("Anti-U.S. protests rock Pakistan," Sept. 22). Yet as a 12-year-old Ahmadi Muslim American, I didn't feel angry at America because of the movie. Why should I? President Barack Obama didn't post the video on YouTube, nor did anyone else in the government. I was angry with the man who actually made the video. He was responsible for hurting the feelings off more than a billion Muslims all over the world.

Philip Franchina has been watched more than 11 million times on YouTube, but even he was surprised when someone recognized him and offered him a free Frappuccino the other day. "It's really awkward," said the 21-year-old online comedian who goes by the online "stage name" Philip DeFranco or sXePhil. "I'm a ridiculously shy person. It's really been a transformation, Now when I think about a minimum of 30,000 people judging you ... it's kind of messed up." A year ago, he was a college biology student in North Carolina who decided to respond to a video someone had posted on YouTube about their family.

Towson University today premiered a computer-generated flythrough tour of its planned athletics facility on TigerArena.com . The video was produced by a Boston and New York-based creative agency called Neoscape. "The video is incredible," Towson athletics director Mike Waddell said in a news release. "It lets you use your imagination and puts right in the middle of the new arena even though it is still just a drawing on the board right now. We were very fortunate to have had one of the industry's top agencies, Neoscape, involved in its production.

I don't know about you, but when I think of exploratory committees I get excited.  That's why I'm glad Minnesota Republican Tim Pawlenty thinks as I do. When you're announcing that you're creating a committee to potentially explore the possibility of potentially running for president, that possible announcement should be accompanied with triumphant, celestial music, shaky action movie-inspired camera work, thunderous applause, and, of course, a...

An industry group is accusing the Chesapeake Bay Foundation of misrepresenting the facts in a video investigation the environmental group released last fall purporting to show natural gas wells and processing facilities spewing invisible plumes of pollution into the air. Energy in Depth , an arm of the Independent Petroleum Association of America , says the plumes captured on CBF's video using an infrared camera are not surreptitious releases...

A deeper look into this case and the law enforcement issues related to it appeared in Thursday's newspaper. Click here for that article.  There can, in fact, be a corrective mechanism when it comes to the mob mentality of the Internet.  This week, a video was posted online of a seemingly lost and disoriented man being swarmed by a group of young people, then sucker punched, robbed, and stripped naked of his clothing on...