Monterey

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The family Tipton on holiday in Monterey and Carmel.

Top 5 Video Podcasts

Top 5 Video Podcasts (as I see it)

1. Diggnation
2. Ask A Ninja
3. 1UP Show
4. 29World
5. Despair.com

Not enough can be said about Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose's Diggnation podcast. It's current events for nerds. That said, these guys can drink... and I mean drink. Ask A Ninja is laugh out loud funny if you have half a brain. Basically it's a ninja... answering emails. 1UP show is the best video game preview and review show I've seen, updated regularly and with some really high production value. 29 World is an excellent source for upcoming film trailers and behind the scenes footage. Despair.com doesn't have too many videos in the bin yet, but what they do have gives Ricky Gervais a run for his funny money.

Top 5 Video Sites

Top 5 Best Video Sites on the Web (not porn)

1. Video Search
2. Ourmedia
3. File Cabinet
4. TimeKiller
5. Google Videos

Yea, I know Google's video site is like walking through a video graveyard, but the selection is pretty deep (even though they do charge $$ for a substantial portion of the videos). Any suggestions that I left off of the list? I'm willing to do a part two if anyone lays some recommendations on me.

Snakes on a MotherF**king Plane!

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Imagine a movie that could't possibly be made. Guess what...

...it got made.

I think there's another trailer at this page

Guerilla Theater of the Mind

IMPROV EVERYWHERE

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 50 missions involving hundreds of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

The Amazing Kamado Grill?

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These grills are awesome! It's like roasting a giant Russian Matryoshka doll!

If anyone has ever used one of these beauties, please let me know!

Heat Vision and Jack Black

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Heat Vision and Jack was created as a 1999 pilot for Fox. Written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, directed by Ben Stiller, this series was passed over by Fox despite critical acclaim from those who've been lucky enough to see it.

The 30 minute pilot is about an astronaut (played by Jack Black) with a medical secret who is on the run from the evil Ron Silver and the rest of NASA, with the help of a talking motorcycle called Heat Vision (voiced by Owen Wilson).

You can fool the sum of all people, some or all of the time

Mesmerism involved different techniques, including the placement or brandishment of literal magnets around the subjects, and the monotonous repetition of words and tones, which induced a trance-like state in its subjects.

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In a hypnotic trance, the subject is prone to suggestibility. They tend to believe what they are told and their senses will malfunction to back up these suggestions. Mesmer primarily used the technique to cure various stress-related illnesses but it soon became clear that hypnotism could also be used to make people do things they wouldn't normally do.

Today, any respectable hypnotist will assure you that a person under hypnosis can't be induced to do anything they wouldn't normally be able to do. But then, it's not the respectable hypnotists that you have to worry about. Regardless of their protestations of harmlessness, the suggestibility of a hypnotized subject offers ample opportunity for the hypnotist to wreak havoc.

Aside from the possibility of just ordering the subject to become a killing machine, which is not a reliable technique, one can plant suggestions that allow the subject to justify all manner of wrongdoing (i.e., "Jim is planning to kill you. He will kill you unless you kill him first. You had better kill him in self-defense.").

Hypnotic techniques can also be used to plant "post-hypnotic" suggestions, in which a certain set of circumstances (such as the utterance of a "trigger phrase") cause the subject to act out a preprogrammed behavior. This is more popular as a Hollywood device than effective in the real world, but it can be done.

The main problem with hypnosis as a mind-control technique is that it's pretty difficult to hypnotize someone against their will. That's why insidious megalomaniacs returned to the techniques used by the first Assassins � drugs � while inventing new and exciting ways to manipulate the masses in an economical fashion.