Will an Ipod Blend?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

And what better way to celebrate than taking last year's hottest gadget, and sticking it in a blender. Will It Blend is a series of videos produced by Blendtec, makers of the Total Blender, a high end blender that they claim can blend anything. And they've set out to prove it.

Alright, yes. This is a glorified commercial. This video exists only to sell this product. But any nerd will tell you that using a device in a way you're not supposed to for random weird acts of destruction is endlessly satisfying. And Tom Dickson's matter of fact confidence is strangely charming. They've blended all manner of things with this monster, including lightbulbs, golfballs and rakes, and even a complete thanksgiving dinner. There's even a page where you can suggest items for them to blend. It's all very Web 2.0 and Cluetrain Manifesto. Plus blending stuff is cool.

There always seems to be a point where I have to fully disclose things in connection to this video, so this looks like a good time to point out that the embedded video for this is from Revver.com a video sharing site with an ad based revenue model, of which I am an affiliate, which means I make some negligable amount of money when you watch their video through my site. Rest assured that I don't have any further connection with Blendtec (I have a competitor's cheap assed blender at home), nor did I post this video solely for the revenue (trust me, it's not that much). From time to time I will use a Revver link if the video is interesting, and if it exists on more than one vid site and Revver is one of them, I'll use Revver. So now that I've gotten selling out out of the way, and in the second week of active posting, we can all take this dirty feeling and channel it into holiday cheer. And after all, isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Thanks to Voodoo Walters for this link.

UPDATE 12/18/06 9:06 PM
Corrected spelling of 'thanks' in the last sentence. All this filthy lucre made me forget to spellcheck.