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Dr. Manhattan's Dangle and Brain Crack

2009-03-18 · list · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Internet & YouTube, Global development, Health) · mode: Curiosity & trivia · tags: civic or action cta, song or performance

Hank, citing Ze Frank's 'brain crack' (ideas kept in your head become an addiction), gives away ideas he lacks time to execute - a charity-matching site, a years-of-life-lost death index, buttfires.com, a recipe kiosk, stuffonbabies.com - and urges Nerdfighteria to free their own.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Facebook fan page and ditty for Dr. Manhattan's dong; brain crack defined; Ze Frank

  • ★★ Hank admits he created a Facebook fan page for Dr. Manhattan's dong yesterday, became a fan, and sings a short ditty about it. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Facebook

  • ★★★ Hank explains brain crack: get an idea out fast, or your brain becomes addicted to the idea of ideas and hoards it until it can be executed perfectly; the fan page is an example. — 00:00:00 · brain crack

    “your brain becomes addicted to the idea of ideas”

  • ★★ Hank calls brain crack one of the fundamental gifts Ze Frank has given the world and links Ze Frank's brain crack video. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · brain crack

00:00:50 — Hank is addicted to brain crack; no time or resources; he will share his ideas instead

  • ★★★ Hank says he is addicted to brain crack: he feels he lacks the time or resources to realise many ideas, though admits this may be a rationalisation, so he will share them instead. (hedged) — 00:00:50 · brain crack

00:01:19 — Ideas belong to whoever does them; idea 1: match.com for charities; idea 2 begins

  • ★★★ Hank says the one who matters in having ideas is the person who does the idea; he wants his ideas to stop being 'his' and just be ideas. — 00:01:19
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to enjoy the ideas at face value and, if they want to put time into one, to please do it themselves. — 00:01:19
  • ★★ Idea one: a charity database like match.com where a survey matches you with charities aligned with your interests, so you can be a good person more quickly and with less effort. (playful) — 00:01:19
  • ★★★ Idea two: since a death over 80 is less tragic than at 40 or 20, Hank wants a death index ranking causes by years of life lost, raising car accidents and lowering heart disease and cancer. (hedged) — 00:01:19

00:02:03 — Idea 2: a death index of years of life lost; idea 3 begins: buttfires.com

  • ★★★ Hank thinks decisions should weigh not just how many people things kill but at what age, even if the picture might not change much. (hedged) — 00:02:03
  • ★★ Idea three: buttfires.com, an e-greeting service for nudging someone you've been expecting to send something, like a proposal - an online fire under their backside. (playful) — 00:02:03

00:02:33 — buttfires.com; recipe kiosk; stuffonbabies.com

  • ★★ Idea four: a supermarket recipe kiosk joining recipes to store inventory, giving recipe, calories, cost and a grocery list with item locations; Hank likes it because he never knows what to cook. (hedged) — 00:02:33
  • ★★ Idea five: since Stuff on My Cat works, stuffonbabies.com should too; Hank owns the domain and asks anyone interested in developing it to tell him. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:02

00:03:31 — Free your brain crack: post ideas in comments and video responses; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank hopes Nerdfighteria will also free their brains of brain crack - the world needs ideas, not ideas stuck in heads - and wants them in comments and video responses. — 00:03:31 · Nerdfighteria, brain crack

Humor (significant)

  • Hank sings about the Facebook fan page he made for Dr. Manhattan's blue, six-foot dong. — 00:00:00

    “It's a terrible fright when Laurie Jupiter wears her thong.”

  • Idea one: a match.com-style survey tells you which charities to give to so you don't have to think about it. — 00:01:19

    “you can be a good person more quickly and with less effort”

  • buttfires.com: an e-greeting card you send when someone is late with their proposal. — 00:02:33

    “which would basically be the internet version of lighting a fire under someone's ass.”

  • Stuff on my cat works, babies are as cute as cats, so stuffonbabies.com would do well. — 00:03:02

    “that is a domain name I actually own.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: brain crack

Also: Doctor Manhattan · Facebook · Laurie Juspeczyk · Match.com · Stuff on My Cat · The Show with Ze Frank · years of potential life lost

Only in the description or credits: Julia Nunes · Ze Frank

Also centred on brain crack: How to Make Ideas Real: Readit1st.com

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