Category Archives: Completely Different

This secret internal ethnographic study of YouTube commissioned by Google provides the first explanation I’ve been able to grasp as to why Google would pay $1.6 Billion for YouTube.

It seems that George Bush has a secret plan in the works to address climate change that he is going to unveil as an October Surprise in order to try to swing the mid-term elections.

He’s going to invade the sun!

Sent to me via email:

A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.

No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.

The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog ”was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive,” according to Xinhua.

”She thought she would let the dog ‘have a try’ while she operated the accelerator and brake,” the report said. ”They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car.”

Just one question: Does she have relatives who live in Miami?

My family got a big kick out of this Canadian comedy show in which interviewers get ordinary Americans to demonstrate astonishing ignorance while mesmerized by a TV camera. Personally, I found it so painful to watch I stopped part one half way. Not for the softhearted or squeamish:

“This Hour Has 22 Minutes” CBC news/commentary show, in which Rick Mercer would go to the USA and ask Americans whether they believed that Russia should given the Chechens in Saskatechwan their freedom, or for help defending our national igloo, or for congratulations on legalizing insulin. This show is a national institution, but it has never been aggressively marketed to Americans. You’d be hard pressed to get a funnier outside look into the USA.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

(via boing-boing, Talking to Americans: hilarious Canadian TV show about USA).

But then I don’t like slapstick either. Nothing funny about people falling over in my book.

Everyone is worried about identity theft these days.

Good thing that Stephen Colbert has some simple advice to help you stop worrying: Stephen’s Sound Advice: Protecting Identity, pt. 1 and the even funnier pt. 2.