Nonetheless, if this did turn out to amount to something, I wouldn't say it was wholly a bad idea. (Good discussion of the matter at Making Light.)
2. I see the banana video has surfaced once again, and has been promptly trashed in many obvious-but-still-amusing ways by the BoingBoing commenters. Anything which results in the use of this absolutely brilliant Douglas Adams quote is okay with me:
For all my rational Western intellect and education, I was for the moment overwhelmed by a primitive sense of living in a world ordered by a malign and perverted god, and it coloured my view of everything that afternoon - even the coconuts. The villagers sold us some and split them open for us. They are almost perfectly designed. You first make a hole and drink the milk, and then you split open the nut with a machete and slice off a segment of the shell, which forms a perfect implement for scooping out the coconut flesh inside. What makes you wonder about the nature of this god character is that he creates something that is so perfectly designed to be of benefit to human beings and then hangs it twenty feet above their heads on a tree with no branches.
There's also Jeffrey Rowland's refutation, which is, um, rather less elegant, but no less effective for that.
3. As long as we're in THAT section of the gutter, you may have missed this little advertising clip that Marc linked elsewhere. Totally safe for work, visually. Unsafe for everyone, conceptually. Funny? Well, that depends on your definitions, don't it?
