From the SNL comic duo Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg that brought you Lazy Sunday and Dick in a Box comes Jizz in My Pants.

This song parody …songody? …parodong? This parodong aired on December 6, 2008 and although as funny if not more than the other two shorts, Jizz in My Pants still has not gained enough traction to receive the title of “viral”. I would argue that this has to do with Hulu’s clamping down on their videos being distributed through YouTube. Lazy Sunday and Dick in a Box did so much to bring buzz back to the long stale Saturday Night Live that if the execs over at NBC took their heads out of their asses for one minute, they’d realize that YouTube does more help than harm. I’m not even sure the above Hulu embed will still work by the time you guys are reading this. Hulu has been so inconsistent with their video libraries it’s ridiculous, one week a clip is up the other week it’s gone. Now they’ve even pulled out from Boxee.

The whole viral phenonmenon will not work if viewers feel like they are being tricked by NBC into being pawns for NBC’s overall marketing strategy.  There is a certain unspoken trust between sender and receiver; and as alruistic web denizens, we would rather not pass along unwanted advertizing to friends who trust us to not litter their inboxes with spam.

Ipod Kills Pedestrian

Ok, this made a big stir a short while back so I won’t spend a lot of time ranting on it, but I just heard a story on NPR talking about a new ad campaign in San Francisco that warns about the dangers of crossing the street while distracted. …Duh! Well actually, I believe PSAs are a much better way of getting this message across than passing a law forbidding the use of handheld devices in crosswalks like that politician in New York tried to do. I understand that avoidable street collisions can strain our already over taxed medical system but I feel that there is a bigger issue at hand. Are we creating laws that just serve the stupid while over regulating the rest of the population? Are we in fact diluting our gene pool to a point where people who don’t deserve to breed are saved long enough to put ill equipped progeny on this earth? I understand that it is a constant battle to keep the public safe from new dangers that evolving technology present but sometimes we have to defer to COMMON SENSE. But where to draw the line? Are we just creating a society of idiots that natural selection would have eliminated generations ago? If I’m not smart enough to look both ways before I cross the street and need laws to protect me from myself, do I have the common sense needed to raise children? I argue no. We’re talking preservation of our species here people.

Alcohol Shot Gun

Probably in a drunken moment of inspiration, some alcoholic decided to take the phrase “a shot of alcohol” literal and came up with this ingenious piece of gadgetry. It’s too bad it looks like this gadget is just a prototype; cause if it wasn’t, I’d buy one. I’d take it to Ritual and start making some friends. I’d wear a bandoleer of different alcohols and go around picking fights so I could duel. Open mouths at 10 paces. Then every night could end with a money shot.

Bandoleer

UrbanTrend, via 7Gadgets, via DVICE