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Ben Folds: Funniest guy with a piano since Beethoven

This is improv genius that requires some explanation. First, you need to know what ChatRoulette is. It's a meetup site where anybody with a webcam can hook up with anybody else. Bored with your random hookup? Click, boom, you're on to somebody else. The major problem? An inordinate amount of guys showing their penises. You know, just like at Wal-Mart.

Enter Ben Folds, uber-piano-dork extraordinaire. He hooked up ChatRoulette at a concert and began riffing on the various random hookups he met. And it went a little something like this:

Man. I can play piano like that. Really. I can.

The Battlestar Galactica/Sabotage mashup is simply awesome to behold

"Sabotage" is one of the great songs of the '90s, and it's absolutely inseparable from the fake-'70s-cop-show video. You put that music to pretty much anything -- shoving your way through a crowded bar to get a drink, walking into your office, mowing the lawn -- and it instantly becomes badass. But somebody had the brilliant idea to set it to clips of "Battlestar Galactica," which is cool enough. But to then do a shot-by-shot recreation of the video? Magnificent. Here's the Galactica video by itself, and here's the side-by-side comparison:

If America could ever harness the time we spend screwing around on the Internet and put it to productive use, we'd own the world again. (Gracias, Warming Glow.)

Pearl Jam Devo it up for Halloween

Pearl Jam was my favorite band of the early '90s, drifted off into self-indulgent meandering for a decade or so, and then realized what Kurt Cobain never did: being a rock star can be kinda fun. Witness this moment from Saturday night at the Spectrum, where they came onstage dressed in Devo outfits. And you'll never guess what tune they launched into:

Oh my dear sweet heaven, look what they’ve done to Kurt Cobain

 You may know that long-deceased Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is an unlockable character in Guitar Hero 5. What you may not realize is that Kurt won’t just sing Nirvana songs. No, he’ll suddenly become a cover band front man, one who’s a lot more joyful than I remember:

That’s both ghoulish and awesome. Maybe if Nirvana had switched over to full-scale arena rock, Kurt would still be with us today. Hat tip to Agent M for the find.