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June 23, 2005
Spreading Cultural Viruses
If you haven't already seen them, a few hilarious viral videos off iFilm:
- This apparently genuine mockumentary about former President Clinton's last few lame-duck days in office.
- When Pratt & Whitney says their jet engines are rated for tens of thousands of pounds of thrust, they really mean it.
- Jon Stewart's appearance on the now-cancelled CNN show Crossfire is legendary, and I'm ten months behind linking to it. But I never actually saw it at the time, just read the buzz, much of which centered on the importance of the online peer-to-peer distribution of the clip, since so many more people saw it that way than actually watched CNN in real time. While that's interesting from the standpoint of a cultural critic, you should still go watch it if, like day-late-and-dollar-short me, you didn't last fall. Impressive. (Best quote: After Jon Stewart attacks Crossfire etc. for being worthless to the public discourse, Tucker Carlson berates Jon Stewart for being soft on John Kerry in a Daily Show interview. Jon Stewart fires back with, "You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is 'puppets making prank phone calls'.")
- And finally, something rather more....risqué: this French (according to iFilm, anyway) public service announcement promoting safe sex. If it is French, gotta love the gratitous slam at the German male endowment.
Posted by David Richmond at June 23, 2005 2:56 PM EDT
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