You know, I could watch Video.Google.com all day . . . okay, a few minutes a day but that’s it. Here’s the latest funny. Don’t try this with my processor.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054

Oh my gawd. Very funny. The video is 5:13 long so grab a snack and enjoy.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5285291339888031355

I could have linked to this just because it’s entertaining but there’s more to it than that.

See the commercial for Google Services (2:48)

http://video.google.com/

In the immortal words of the Guinness guys, “Brilliant!”

Here is an ad that does a great job of blending entertainment, story telling, with product education. What do you think?

Check out this Easter Egg in FireFox: in the location bar type about:mozilla.

For more Easter Eggs go to: eggheaven2000.com.

I’m sure that the powers that be checked out the meaning of the word “zune” in different languages. They should have checked harder.

It’s hard not to make fun of your ex. Especially when your ex is Microsoft. And in that light, is it just me or is the Zune sold on Woot.com way too often? I don’t check Woot.com everyday but I’ve seen the Zune sold there at least three times now over the past few months.

Microsoft recently announced that there would be even more Zune models coming out this fall. They probably want to get those old ones off the shelves so there will be room for the new and improved non-selling Zunes.

If you must have one then wait until next summer and they’ll be on sale at Woot for 50% off. That way you can gut one out and make an iPod holder that no one will steal.

Wonder when we’ll see Microsoft Vista for sale on woot?

Let me say up front that there is ample reason to be a global warming skeptic. Especially if one is skeptical about the anthropogenic affects. There is no doubt that earth has undergone huge climate variations in the past. From a “Snowball Earth” to a mostly tropical climate through the Jurassic.

With that said, “What the frak are skeptics thinking?”

Really?

Dogma once held that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Then a guy comes along and says, “You know, I have this model of the solar system that works pretty darn good with the Sun at the center of the solar system.” (*Note: that’s not completely accurate.)

Dogma responds, rather vehemently, that dogma is correct because it’s dogma.

Some might call that a circular argument. But a dogmatist would respond to that by saying, “You’re being inconsistent because you think that it’s okay for planets to go in circles but not arguments.” This is the sort of statement that really stupid people fall for.

Another guy had a fairly simple idea that would explain the wild diversity of nature based entirely on who gets laid. He loosened a shit storm that is still raging despite an overwhelming body of evidence. I mean if evidence had mass then the theory of evolution would collapse into a black hole. Going along with that analogy, skeptics must have some exotic method of reasoning that is not effected by data.

What else? Space travel is not possible; heavier than air machines won’t fly; heart surgery can’t be done not to mention brain surgery; Everest can’t be climbed; continents don’t move; God does not play dice with the Universe . . . I could go on, and on.

Skeptics have such a horrible batting average that if skepticism could be measured it would count as scientific evidence for a theory. I can see the headlines now, “Engineers build space ship capable of faster than light travel powered by skepticism that it can’t be done.”

One might say that skeptics keep people from being overly gullible. But how many gullible people fall for the argument of the skeptic only to eventually end up feeling gullible?

After much thought I have come up with a theory to explain skepticism. Most people don’t want to believe things. And they certainly don’t want to understand things. They want to Know things - with a capital “K”. How do you know something? You listen to an authority figure talk. They tell you what you there is to know.

Where do authority figures get their knowledge from? Simple, they figure out what it is that they need to get people to know so that they can get what they want.

So if you don’t believe in my theory then I’m going to argue that that is evidence to support my theory.

Ha! Take that you skeptic.

*The Copernican model was not as accurate at predicting planetary movements as the ruling Polyatomic model because Copernicus used circles instead of ellipsis. Once Kepler fixed the Copernican model it worked much better than the Ptolemaic.

Hardest Button To Button by The White Stripes (youTube.com)

Cool song, great beat, and amazingly creative video. I’ll bet they had a blast making it.

Of course if you like it you have to see the Simpson’s parody.

What I like the best about the video is that while being creative it’s something that just about anyone could have done. It isn’t something that required a GFX house and a few million bucks.

Great Flash funny about . . . Flash. You’ll have to watch it at least twice. Once to focus on the victim and once to focus on the mouse pointer.

If you like video mashups, and who doesn’t, then check out these:

How not to be seen

French Castle

Bridge of Death