They're GOOD videos...

A quick timewaster to start the day...

I've extolled the virtues of GOOD magazine many times before, but I was suprised to learn that the philanthropic print publication has a plethora of videos online. For those of you familiar with Current TV (I, myself, am tivodicted to the channel), GOOD gives their videos a similar flavor. The facts are short and sweet, the graphics are appealing, and the stories are interesting.

Here are some to get you started. If you get addicted, check out the rest of them here.

1980 New York, the good ol' days....

At lease they got the pill-poppin' part right....

Just Imagine:

New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea.

Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.

It's no Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo, but the strength of the plots are about equal.