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Some things never get old, like kick-ass beards and the talk show format.

Once again proving this theory is Zach Galifianakis's Funny or Die web series "Between Two Ferns."

These shorts are some of the few made-for-the-Internet videos that consistently crack me up.  Typically, "funny" web shorts try too hard, but Zach doesn't try at all.  That's his charm!  He's a loser, just like us.  A millionaire, movie star loser.

In the latest episode, Zach shows off his hosting prowess against the new king of late night, Conan O'Brien.  He does a great job of putting O'Brien in his place.  In fact, I think Galifianakis may even be right: Maybe he did deserve to be considered to host The Tonight Show.

Based on what you've seen, what do you think?

In a further sign of the end of humanity, finally, a Twitter account is being turned into a television program.

The hugely popular Twitter account @shitmydadsays has been picked up by CBS to develop into a sitcom.

It'll be interesting to see how much CBS can suck the life-blood out of this beloved tweeting phenomenon by turning it into a "The Big Bang Theory" clone.

But the bigger question becomes, is a Twitter account really enough substance to base an entire series around.  I know my Twitter account isn't TV worthy?  What about yours?

This week's Viral Vote we're going to keep uber-simple.

Above you can see a video that's been gaining steam on the Internet today of a French gentleman opening a corked bottle of wine without a corkscrew.

I think I read about this trick in an issue of Maxim left in a friend's bathroom one time while using the facilities.  But I digress.

So, after watching the video above, here's the big question…

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Greenpro Productions has attempted to find a niche for his YouTube channel by posting videos of optical illusions.  A couple of these vids have even reached near-viral status: His "Shady Optical Illusion" has gotten over 300,000 views since he put it online three weeks ago.

But after digging a little deeper into his collection of uploads, it quickly became apparent where he got his user name from: This dude must be a total professional at smoking greens to think some of these "illusions" are interesting.

Take the "Impossible Illusion!" from above, for example.  You know why it's impossible?  Because it's not an illusion!  It's — LAME SPOILER ALERT! — tied with a f*cking string!

A string!  That isn't an illusion!  That's a physical property!  If he wasn't shooting this with an old camera in crap light, it would be totally obvious this whole "illusion" was B.S. from the get-go.

So what do you think…

Despite recent criticisms that his administration has had trouble getting things done, President Obama dropped the hammer in one area where his guidelines can become effective immediately: Easing the prosecution of state-sanctioned medical marijuana user and sellers.

The move certainly didn't come out of nowhere.  As can be seen in the official video above, Obama has spoken of his support for medical marijuana in the past.

The topic immediately garnered a lot of attention online.  Some sites, like The Christian Science Monitor, came out against the move questioning if this was "A federal misstep with medical marijuana?"  Not surprisingly, High Times took a slightly different angle — though it is surprising that they were able to write and post their reaction in such a timely fashion.

What do you think?  Chime in below in this week's Viral Vote!

GamerPaper.com recently posted a comedic article entitled "If Classic Videogames Had Achievements."  In it, they showed humorous examples of achievement awards some well-known games could have included.

Most of the article confused me.  (Including the title.  When did "videogames" become all one word?  Did I miss something??)  However, I did find the above reference to The Oregon Trail pretty hilarious.  "Don't name any of your party members swear words."  Ha!  I gotta rip that bit off.

Anyway, the article got me thinking about The Oregon Trail.  It's truly a classic game.  Did you realize that people first rode covered wagons across a computerized western terrain back in 1971?  Believe it or not, that's the year The Oregon Trail was developed — a year before the release of Pong!

Even in the Internet age, where crappy browser-based flash games are once again all the rage as if Intellivision never went out of style, The Trail continues to find an audience.  Until last year, the game was a popular Facebook application and has even recently been released to cell phones and iPods!

Thinking back to my childhood, some of my fondest memories of elementary school are playing The Oregon Trail.  It beat the f*** out of Snooper Troops.  (That game totally blew.  I always got caught in some guy's basement!  And why is an "edutainment" game encouraging kids to break into people's houses anyway?!)

It was also significantly better than using a "turtle" to draw a box.  Can someone explain to me why we dedicated class time to this??

And Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? I'll tell you where she was: Boringtown!

To conclude, The Oregon Trail is the best computer game ever, right?  (And I'm talking "computer games" here.  Please don't compare it to your Xboxes and your TurboGrafx-16s.)

Did you know that Guinness World Records has their own YouTube channel?

I used to love the Guinness Book of World Records.  Nothing like flipping through a 1,000 page reference book full of page after page of tiny type to get a kid excited.

But now, kids are on the Internet, so instead of reading that the World's Tallest Man is 8 ft. 1 in. tall and then looking up at the ceiling and thinking, Boy, that's pretty tall, tykes today actually get to see the World's Tallest Man.

The future!

But then something happened.  I watched the above video of the world's tallest man that Guinness put out last week, and I have to say, he doesn't really look that tall.  I mean, when I was little, I figured the world's tallest man would be really f'ing tall!

What do you think?

According to the site DivineCaroline, a Taiwanese blogger, Yang Ya-ching, is attempting to kiss 100 strangers in Paris to record on her blog and to eventually write a book about the experience.

Yang, seen above with one of the gentlemen she puckered up with, has created some controversy with the project presumably from those who think it's not ladylike to doll out kisses just for a photo op.

But what about from the guy's perspective?  Or what if the situation was reversed and a guy was asking for a brief make out session to get on his website?  Would you kiss someone to be on their blog?

Kirk Cameron won his way into our hearts as the character Mike Seaver on that terrible show Growing Pains.

Since that time, Kirk has remained in the public spotlight due to his strong religious beliefs working as a Christian evangelist with the ministry The Way of the Master.

Just last week, The Way of the Master released the above video to the web to help promote their upcoming giveaway of copies of Darwin's Origin of Species (with a new "introduction," of course.)  And boy is the video funny! What hysterical irony using technology to deride science.  Religion and science: They're the original odd couple!!

But I don't know…  Is it as funny as an episode of Growing Pains…  What do you think?

Don't forget that episode Anger with Love. "Maggie opposes Mike and Julie's wedding plans."  Ha!  What a laugh riot that sounds like!!!!!