Dr. Allen Lim pedals around the stage at last year's inaugural event.

In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening's three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading -- with a couple even marking return performances with progress updates. The low-key evening, styled after an eighteenth century salon, was limited to a maximum audience of 300 people at RedLine Gallery, compared to the 1,800 who flocked to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House last year for the full-day TEDx conference.

But if you missed basking in all the Colorado inspiration, there's time to catch up between now and the next big event in June. All of this year's salon presentations are now available on YouTube -- and below the jump.

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Erin Streets, the main character in "Shit Girls in Denver Say." Watch the full video below.

The latest local version of the Shit Girls Say viral video trend is "Shit Girls in Denver Say," starring Erin Streets, a 25-year-old fashion designer and stylist who utters cliches and catch phrases for a good three minutes. It's funny. Watch the video below and read Street's reaction to its relative popularity (16,000 views and counting, since it was published Thursday).

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Woody Allen meets Kanye West in a pair of new mash-ups.

One of the best films of the year, Midnight in Paris, and one of the most popular albums of the year, Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne, have little in common on the surface.

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Watch the video below.

In Internet time, the "shit people say" videos really peaked about mid-January, but maybe like you, we seem to watch every one that comes across our browser. And since there have been a few Colorado-related videos that have come out, there hasn't been one about the phrases and idioms of Denver.

So we made this one:

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Warren Hammond goes up his nose.

It's a non-holiday holiday today, and as such we thought we'd shine a light on the Papa John's delivery driver and glow-dart blower Warren Hammond of Boulder.

Hammond, umm, blew it, on the Late Show with David Letterman earlier this month. Watch the video below to see what we mean.

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We've been getting ahead of ourselves with all the recent snowboard video premieres going down -- and opening day still at least a month away at most Colorado resorts -- but some of our favorite local film crews have been reminding us of an important fact: It's still skateboarding season. After the jump: Sick clips filmed at some of our illest local skate spots...

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Oskar Blues is the second Colorado brewery to tap into a viral YouTube video, releasing Honey Badger Smoked Porter at its restaurants in Longmont and Lyons yesterday. The beer was inspired by "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)," a National Geographic video with a hilarious voicever that repeatedly includes the line, "Honey badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit."

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Steve Carell readies his slapping hand.

Don't talk shit to Steve Carell, because apparently he will slap you like a bitch. Not in a scary, Wayne-Brady-turned-evil kind of way -- no, Steve Carell is way too nice for that, and also, in a weird way, he's even scarier. Because somehow, Steve Carell is a sweet enough guy that he will actually talk you into consenting to get bitch-slapped by him, which he convinced Everyday Show host and general Denver gadabout Chris Parente to do in an interview with him -- multiple times. Check out the video:

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Encapsulating everything that is creepy about talking inanimate objects created in the name of children's television programming, this new video from the London-based This Is It Collective is just that: creepy. The short begins innocently enough, with a small cast of sort-of identifiable characters sitting around a table and sing-talking about being "creative."

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Give anyone who wants it access to unlimited bandwidth, and people are bound to come up with some weird shit. Consider: Though there is no real available count, the number of videos currently posted to YouTube by some estimates is in the multiple billions. Some of these videos go viral, of course -- latest trends include planking, airbag pranks and the continuing popularity of failing -- but the vast majority of hilarious, bizarre and kind of disturbing videos produced by random weirdos simply languish in obscurity, which is bullshit. And it's a problem we're trying to rectify by spotlighting one weird-ass YouTube Channel each week. This week, we take a look at the Church of Surrealism and its bizarre experiments with Go!Animate.

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