Thousands of years of civilization, decades of top-flight research in computers and microchips, and the development of a previously-unheard-of worldwide network of machines capable of uniting worldwide communications and commerce, and the greatest minds of our generation use it to make cartoons of Osama bin Laden in a blender and George Bush and Colin Powell's heads on drawn figures singing about blowing up Saddam Hussein. The really sad thing is that these things take time to create. Someone spent hours, perhaps even days, synchronizing video and audio and using vector graphics to create these inane diversions. Maybe the French are right about us...