I wish I could single handedly promote this video to the front. It's very enduring, as it has an obvious film student vibe going on, but it's clever, quick, and has good cinematography. I love it because it really shows his potential.

God bless the Lips.

JiggaJohnson: Exactly. Take a few seconds, right now, to consider that Palin and this guy could be running the country. Also consider that if 49.9 of your fellow Americans had their way, they would be: We're not talking about a screeching minority here... this is half of the voters in this country.

Civil war, anyone?

"You're about to enter... the answering machine zone." Really? Couldn't think of something better than "The Answering Machine Zone"?

Watching him speak, I keep thinking of what Adam Savage (MythBusters) calls, "Lazy Arrogance." I guess it's when you assume your side is so unassailable, so absolutely correct, that you can smile knowingly while calling the president things like "Abomination." If he were correcting a child who calls color of the sky 'pink' in the same tone, it would be irritating. But the claims he is making in this clip, and the way he delivers them, relegates him (and his ilk) to carnival freakshow.

At least pretend to not be such an arrogant asshole, Keyes. Then, perhaps, people will listen to what you're saying and just call your arguments bat-shit insane.

How amazingly, incredibly cool. What sucks is we have the technical capability to create a digital library that contains every scrap of video, audio, text... anything that can be digitized. We have that ability now. The only thing stopping us the legal system. Imagine how many gems like this will be lost to future generations trying to understand us because we didn't have the foresight to archive them. Sigh.

I love the happiness of the condoms compared with the apparent disgust/anger/sadness of the onlookers. Only on VideoSift...

You can also use 'Plain Yogurt' instead of sour cream if you want.

I love that it begins with the classic modem dial-up sound. It reminds me of classic sci-fi where humans have colonized the solar system, but are still using microfiche. Great stuff.

Who doesn't think that the UI's are trending away from this kind of rich experience? It's great that the icons behave like items on my physical desk (of course, only in a visual sense), but so what? How does that make the experience of interacting with virtual object "better?" Does anyone here think that the next killer Mac computer isn't going to be a laptop-size iPhone? It will be completely stable-state with no buttons or moving parts. It will use the iPhone/Touch interface and will be wildly successful not because you interact with it via touch (tablets do that now) but because their interface is uses touch as a fundamentally different way of navigating through the software. The iPhone does away with scroll bars, a physical keyboard, and profile/landscape buttons. It's isn't revolutionary because the icons on the phone bounce around with floaty physics or can be piled.

Reason given for why it should be banned:

"Reason 1, taking God's name in vain. And 2, it shouldn't be read."

Seriously?

Is it time for the obligatory South Park quote?

"Joseph Smith was a Mormon prophet, dum dum dum dum dum."

Thank you.

Amazing band. Saw them in 2007. Good video too.

Apart from how much I hate the elitist idea behind TED (a bunch of self-righteous losers decide who is "wonderful" and who isn't), many of the people they sham into attending actually give good talks. At least we vacuous wastes of humanity get a glimpse of this greatness via a postage-stamp-sized video.

Ranting aside, this is a great talk by a great author.

Absolutely brilliant. The perfect melding of substance and style; viral, funny, catchy, yet not preachy. So good.