There is no question in my mind that the looris post is higher quality. (Hah . . . odd to use the word "quality" and "kid pwned by soccer ball" in the same comment thread)
luol

But if the ockhamist post was indeed so low-quality or no-quality, then why does it have 68 votes? People are really desperate for bank shots, I guess.
lol! no, come on, people see a nice video and think "hey quality could be better but fun anyway". That's not the point, you know

i agree with you it's pointless to have both videos award points to both, we'll think of something.

There is no question in my mind that the looris post is higher quality. (Hah . . . odd to use the word "quality" and "kid pwned by soccer ball" in the same comment thread)

But if the ockhamist post was indeed so low-quality or no-quality, then why does it have 68 votes? People are really desperate for bank shots, I guess.

All I am saying (besides what I have already said) is that this Sift should not have 125 or so votes divided between two duplicate pieces of content. And the admins can replace faulty or less desirable embed codes with relative ease. Merge it or re-embed and then go take that Jake Shimabukuro down from its permanent #1 perch.

nice viral campaign. insider pre-release fake mo-cap video released onto youtube with fancy video edits at end involving soccer balls and buildings collapse. EA sports indeed...

I almost wasn't going to vote for it, but the soccer ball and the building won me over.

Full story from Reuters page on google video: "The crippling energy crisis, frequent electricity and hot water cuts, high unemployment and corruption in the former Soviet state of ... all » Georgia have caused misery to most of the country's 5.5 million people. But for some the crisis has become an odd incentive to break unusual records in endurance. Goderdzi Makharadze, a 28-year-old student, has been squatting in an empty railcar at Tbilisi rail station since he lost his place in a student's dormitory. To him it doesn't make much difference, the dormitory room is as dark and cold as his railway carriage. Unable to afford a hotel or hostel, he lives in an empty carriage at Tbilisi rail station. It is also his training ground and he climbs railway poles to increase his concentration and skill in heading a soccer ball. He has already found his way into the record books. In 1996, he broke a record by heading his ball non-stop for eight hours, twelve minutes and twenty-five seconds. His last record was breaking the 1987 distance juggling record set by Polish dribbler Janusz Kmiotek. Makharadze walked 30 kilometres and 300 metres from Georgia's old capital of Mtskheta to the Tbilisi soccer stadium in five hours and thirty-four minutes, amusing tourists and winning large applause from the home crowd."