The End of the 00s: When the Geeks Took Over, by John Sellers @11:45 AM
"I am really glad that digital video cameras and file sharing didn't exist in 1985."
Like everybody else, this was my initial reaction the first time I watched the Star Wars Kid video, those 108 cringe-worthy seconds of 14-year-old Canadian student Ghyslain Raza wielding a golf ball retriever as though it were a double-sided lightsaber, which gets my unsolicited vote as the definitive pop-culture moment of the 2000s. READ MORE 15
YouTube and Children: A Deadly, Awful, Horrifying Combination @2:05 PM
"In a child's hands, YouTube is like a long hallway, with doors leading to ever stranger and more inexplicable places. You click on a Wiggles video, you find a link to a homemade video of an animated dinosaur lighting his own farts, which leads you to a link to a crude drawing of a volcanic ass, which leads you to news footage of Mount St. Helen's blowing up, which leads you to a clip of Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker' dubbed in Korean. It's like Six Degrees Of Fuckedupness." 3
Video Remix Will Bring Down British Government, Maybe @11:40 AM
Will YouTube ruin British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's chances of remaining in office for another term? Well, it'll either be YouTube or the fact that there's a worldwide economic crisis going on and the incompetent Brown has shown no ability to connect with an electorate that is growing increasingly tired of the Labour party's 11+ years in power. One or the other. READ MORE 1
