St. Patrick's Day goes steampunk...sort of.

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The "big ugly melting pot" theory (wherein everyone, regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, hair colour, species, etc., celebrates everything for no better reason than the fact that an occasion happens to exist and people don't want to feel left out or miss a party) has hit a new nadir. Hey, wait! Check your calendars - it's not time for the Notting Hill Carnival yet. This is about something else.

As a marketing acquaintance once pointed out, Guinness has owned St. Patrick's Day for decades, in exactly the same way that Coca-Cola would love to own Christmas (but doesn't). Yes, we live in a messed-up, cynical world...thank goodness. Ker-ching! But hang on, and don't say "Feck off!" to this one, because it's a branding and sponsorship-free example of free-spirited nonsense which even Irish people, fed up with every half-witted, non-Irish piss artist jumping on the Nigerian lager bandwagon, might appreciate:

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Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlg-p3RfRYY

(Cheers to boingfeed.)

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The good news bonus feature: Archivists rejoice - C-SPAN dumps the entire contents of its vaults online...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/television/16cspan.html

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

(More about it here: http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/?p=1653)

Gosh!