Frank Thomas pillow fight commercial

I don’t advocate baseball players beating up children, but there’s a great Blue Jays commercial featuring Frank Thomas winning a pillow fight. The Big Hurt will take a walk, but he’ll never back down from a good pillow fight.

Not all shampoo bottles are created equal

My shampoo bottles come in two sizes: normal and large. Usually, I get the normal size because the large ones are harder to come by. But this morning, I noticed the latch mechanism on a large bottle wasn’t quite working. So, resourcefully, I took the cap from a nearly-expired normal bottle and tried to fit it on the large bottle. Lo and behold, the cap was too big for the large bottle. That’s right, same company, same type of product, same shape of bottle, different size. They actually use different sized caps as well.

Look out for a future post about the crappy latch mechanism I am now forced to use.

She’s really quite normal

I’m sure you heard about the bride who cut off her hair on her wedding day. Well, apparently, it’s a fake, as reported on Lost Remote. The woman is apparently actress Jodi Behan, from Toronto. As South Park says, blame Canada.

The clip was only moderately believable, but it was picked up by a ton of “serious” media outlets. I’m not sure if I should post it under Humor or Tech. How about both?

A robot’s place is in the kitchen

Now you can get even lazier, when you have a robot that can open the fridge and retrieve a beer. One of these days I’ve got to make it out to CES.

My Hands Are Bananas

I am not quite sure why this hasn’t become a national phenomenon yet. There are a lot of trippy videos out there in internet-land, but this has to be the trippiest of the trippy.

We get it. His hands are bananas, his friend doesn’t like chili, and he’s the milky pirate. The milky pirate? Warning: this video is very catchy. The first time I watched it, I fell out of my chair. It’s a real high quality production – I could imagine seeing this on MTV in a regular rotation.

Clearly, I am not the only one who found this funny. Here is a video of two girls covering the song in a dorm room. It’s a terrible recording, but they clearly appreciated the song.

It’s interesting how things get profligated out to the public. In The Long Tail (more on that later), Anderson talks about internet phenomena like Octopus Eats Shark, GOATSE, and The Star Wars Kid, but the reality is that these things are really funny to follow, and keep us from normal things like going to movies and watcing network television.

When galactic domination goes wrong

Say what you will about Youtube. Even Mark Cuban thinks there is a lot of garbage out there. And he’s right. But you know what? There is a lot of good stuff out there in the Long Tail.

The fine folks at Blame Society have created a new online video collection called Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager. In addition to being very well produced and very funny, this is also pretty large. This no 20 second clip of people being funny; there are five six-minute episodes, and a plot that can be followed. Clearly, this is no Star Wars or even the original South Park short that started it all. But it’s definitely watchable. Remember, 30 minutes spent watching Chad Vader’s adventures is 30 minutes spent not watching the latest prime time network hits, even on TiVo. In the last ten years, video production has become more and more accessible to the common man. But in the last two years, video distribution has followed suit. And a person’s time spent on entertainment can now be so diverse that the stand-out blockbuster successes are becoming more and more obscelete.

But meanwhile, you can relax: it’s just some people poking fun at Darth Vader.