Annals of Procrastination

Today, I would like to pay homage to Al Gore. Not for his environmental stand, although its awesome, but for inventing the internet.

But the internet is not only for porn! According to this article in the NYT magazine a couple months back it is actually the lack of porn that is what makes youtube so awesome.

One look at YouTube’s eccentric offerings, and I figured its days as a free-for-all “video-sharing site” were numbered. Sooner or later it would become a porn depot. But it did not. Chen and Hurley were committed to taking down videos that users objected to, and they maintained their own standards, too. Chief among the site’s assets, in fact, were top-secret pattern-recognition technologies that block porn uploads...By keeping obscenity in check, YouTube teems with video of near infinite variety, stuff that thrives when pornography, which is hard to contain once it takes root, has been banished. YouTube risked losing millions of viewers when it made rules against pornography. But it has gained radical variety, the kind that defines the most robust ecosystems.

So in the absence of infinite varieties of bizarro porn subgenres, youtube has become the site every other bizarre subgenre including my new favorite!

Real life enactments of free procrastination computer games!

First: Minesweeper

Favorite line:
"Soldier, why are you here?"
"Because I want to clear mines!"
"No, why are you really here?"
"Because, I'm bored"
"Good"

Second: Tetris

This is just weird. I am pretty disappointed, tetris definitely offers opportunities for much better drama.

Third: Frogger

I am speechless

P.S. Baracky II is out!!!!

P.P.S I am a big nerd and watch CSPAN at 3 am. But I happened to catch the replay of Dennis Kucinich's speech to the DNC last night and it was actually one of the best I have seen so far. It is only six minutes long, but it is a great concise explanation of what the Democratic Party should stand for.