Got a great big basket of video type goodness to strew in your wake, my loyal and immaculately groomed readers, and so with just a tiny bit more ado… on with the show!

Ado. Ado. Ado.

First up, what happens when you stick 300 harmonicas to a Mini and go for a drive?

You get a rather nifty little ad for the Mini.

I don’t know, though. The sound said harmonicas are making in the ad is suspiciously clear and clean and pleasant to the ear. My experience has been that these things never turn out as euphonious as you might want them to. Actual flowing air is highly turbulent, after all, and turbulence means chaos and chaos almost never sounds good to the human ear. Music is beautiful in part because of its unnatural perfection, and that is more or less the antithesis of natural chaotic system sound.

So I call shenanigans on that little clip. I bet they strapped the harmonicas on, got something really appalling out of them no matter what they did, and finally gave up and just got Philip Glass to come in and compose something that sounded sort of like what they had hoped the thing would be like in the first place.

Next up : Hey kids, LETS GET WEIRD WITH SCIENCE!

And by weird, I mean “let’s do irresponsible things with powerful forces just because it’s cool. ”

Plus, the accent totally works for a clip like this, don’t you think? I feel like I have just done a really fun science “experiment” with one of the likely lads from Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

But mostly, it’s just cool. Like, Mythbusters cool. I love how the oxide just…. disappears. It doesn’t burn, it doesn’t glow, it doesn’t even make much smoke. It just….. zaps off there in a neat and orderly fashion.

When you think about it, that is the one way to make sure the sensitive data on your CD or DVD cannot be recovered after you throw it out, because all other methods leave something behind. Smashing, melting, crushing, you name it, in theory, the data is still there, more or less.

But with this method…. it’s gone, daddy, gone.

Thanks, Violent Femmes!

Sticking with the “extreme fun with science” angle, you just have to see what the Slo Mo guys have been up to with their high speed cameras lately.

Does that kick ass, or what? The fact that the balloon wouldn’t pop right away turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because the footage of him bouncing off the thing looks almost better than the original desired result. The way it undulates and ripples is mesmerizing, and almost obscene, in an abstract way.

Now let’s kick this blog rockin’ with a little piece by an obscure little artist you may or may not have heard of… he’s just an honest up and coming lad from smalltown California, and I think you will be hearing a lot from this sincere and petulant young man in the future.

Here, making his big time debut, is Alfred “Weird” Yankovic! (canned applause)

You are still not entirely in my good graces, Conan. Your new show is largely a snooze (why couldn’t it have been as good as its promos?) and you have a lot of nerd-bashing bad karma to work off before I can consider you to be out of the red.

But having Weird Al come in to write and perform the “lyrics” to your show’s theme helps. I worship the Al, for he is the Lord of All Comedy Geeks (he is Of Us, and he Rules Us), and so pretty much anything involving him will please me, and the song he did is fun too.

But you ain’t out of the woods yet, Conan. Not until your show gets funnier, anyhow.

Let’s keep the music rolling with this bittersweet and poignant number from some heartfelt fellows who want to explain a thing or two to the ladies.

It’s called Nice Guys Finish last. Hold on to your heartstrings, fellows, they are going to get tugged.

Don’t act like it’s not true, ladies. I know enough nice, sweet, sensitive straight boys who have been completely plowed under by some asshole who treats girls like shit and gets more tang than all the world’s astronauts to doubt it in the least.

Face it, what you say you want is nothing like what you actually reward with sex. And actions mean a hell of a lot more than words.

So don’t be surprised at all the “asshole guys” out there, and act amazed that someone would DARE to treat a woman that way.

It’s simple psychology : you get more of what you reward.

Finally, a link to a great site I stubmled across recently.

It’s called I Love TV Intros and it has a HUGE repository of the openings of a whole whack of North American television shows.

It is the perfect thing if you feel like rummaging around in the attic of your mind and finding memories you didn’t even know you had of shows you only barely remember.

You never know what you will find up there!

I suggest starting with the decade of your childhood.