The other day, former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave her farewell/resignation speech. It was a rather unwieldy and rambling affair witch swung back and forth between partisan politics, Alaska's natural beauty, and criticizing the media for their unfair treatment of her.

So Conan O'Brien decided that the speech was, in fact, a great piece of postmodern poetry, and enlisted William Shatner to recite it as such. The results, naturally, are hilarious. Credit to Iain for digging this up:

UPDATE: William Shatner reads Sarah Palin's Tweets.

This man is a national treasure.

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Nobody here but us assholes...

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Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home

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BBC's Techlab, presents a candid talk by Charles Babbage, inventor of the difference engine.

Fascinating!

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So I keep telling people about this and, understandably, no one is believing me. After what was described as "an intense bidding war by four major movie studios", Universal Studios has won the rights to make a movie based on the video game Asteroids.

That's right. We're talking about that arcade game from the 70s and 80s where your little line-art ship flies around and shoots rocks. There's no plot. No characters. Just shooting rocks. It's like making a movie about Tic-Tac-Toe.

Which, it seems, is not at all an outlandish comparison. Universal is also committed to bringing, get this, Hasbro board game properties to the big screen, citing examples such as Battleship and Candyland.

I guess these executives don't watch Robot Chicken.

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