Good clip, but if I remember correctly, there's another part in the movie where one bug typewriter fucks and eats another one... or something like that...

"The resolution isn't very good. However, I just managed to add about 45 gigabytes of information to a VGA CCTV still image by sheer MAGIC and IGNORANCE."

TV is for fat stay-at-home moms who don't know anything about what a computerbox typewriter is.

Cronenberg? But where's the tooth gun, or bug typewriter, or spine port? Everything looks decidedly un-Gigerish.

Hadn't heard of any monkey shooting incident and didn't even consider any racial undertones. I thought it was a spin on the saying that if a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters got enough time, they'd write the complete works of Shakespeare. I saw it as them hinting that congress is as competent as a group of monkeys, kind of like what JD said.

We need a room full of monkeys with typewriters...or guitars. *yawn*

^ Totally agree.

As if anybody in Basra or Baghdad were responsible for America's ills.

But "Typewriters, baby! Typewriters!" He got that one right.

>> ^brycewi19:
So what's wrong with IBM Selectric typewriters, Mr. Friedman?


they can't browse the intarwebz

So what's wrong with IBM Selectric typewriters, Mr. Friedman?

I can hear the kids now, "Dad, what's a typewriter?"

>> ^budzos:
This would also be funny with typing sounds.


Like this one!
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Typewriter-Song

Ha! He sounded like an old typewriter

LOL, that is genius! That 3rd hairpin turn is totally useless, why didn't they just take the road and merge it into the highway? You can take a dozen monkeys and put them in front of typewriters and they would eventually write Shakespeare. You could take those monkeys and give them building tools, and they would build something better than this!

The first word said is "Pierre!", from Singin' in the Rain
"Pay the man his money" is from Rounders
the man carrying the little boy into the dining room is a reference to Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)
the painting on the wall in the living room is a Monet from The Thomas Crown Affair
and I can't be sure, but at :25, that looks like a Chucky Doll (Child's Play) in the background, left side of screen.

this is such a cool ad; time for a *promote

[edit] :17 the little boy bending his finger and a man sitting at a typewriter could be a reference to The Shining,. and the static on the TV, another Poltergeist

upvote for the message... but upvote even more for the typewriters! there's an Oliver 9, a Blickensderfer, and what looks like a Hermes! yay for typewriter collectors!

oh! and a folding portable Corona 3!

....oh my word... a whole row of Corona 3s...

I'm admittedly not a quantum physicist, but there's something not-quite-right about their explanation of alternate universes. The introduction was confusing because it seemed not to be talking about alternate universes but probabilities within our own, single, universe. It's the "infinite monkeys chained to a typewriter" argument. If you have infinite monkeys chained to a typewriter, eventually (given infinite time) probability dictates that one of those monkeys will accidentally press the keys in the right order to compose all the works of Shakespeare (or any other author you may choose). So what they seem to be saying in the intro is that if the universe is infinitely large, probability dictates that there is direct copy of Earth out there somewhere (they forget about the time factor--that alternate Earth may have existed 2,000,000 years ago or won't exist for another 2 billion or so years).

EDIT: Originally I questioned whether there was evidence that the quantum rules that apply to light also apply to matter, but then I found info that shows the same principle holds for both. See http://science.howstuffworks.com/teleportation1.htm, in particular the experiment done at the Niels Bohr Institute for more details.