It can't possibly have escaped the notice of the 3 readers of this blog that I include a LOT of Youtube videos on this blog, despite my well-stated hatred of Google, which owns Youtube.
The only explanation for this is that there is simply no other alternative.
Youtube has managed to capture the type of Web monopoly that no one else can claim credit for: if you want to find a popular video, go to Youtube. And while you're there, they will analyze your choices and try to figure out what type of person you are.
So I try to screw up their profiling machines as much as possible.
I search for Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road"
Then I search for Carrie Underwood's "Jesus take the Wheel"
Then I search for Half-Life 2
Then I search for Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take it"
Then I search for a Star Trek episode I like.
Then I search for something that is totally random.
By this point, with any luck, the Youtube profile computers are so f#$^ed up trying to figure out who I am that they are frying themselves. I figure at this point that they must think I am a fundamentalist Christian, moonshine-smuggling, pot-growing, Hair-Metal-band-loving, NRA member. Don't think about that combination too long or your brain will break!
Dear Google: Please feel free to bite me.
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