I've always hated these sorts of un-funny viral videos that everybody passes along via email and weblog. But on the other hand, sometimes you do actually find stuff that is funny, that is clever, that is worth watching.

So in an effort to NOT throw out the baby with the bathwater, I'm going to start collecting links to the videos that I enjoy. As with most things here on fourhman.com, it's really more of a service for me than for you.

Of course, there's some legal pangs that go along with this. You won't find me linking to a stream of last night's exciting episode of Desperate Housewives. But I will post oddball, awesome and otherwise unavailable clips, like the first episode of the Sgt. Frog anime, which has yet to hit the States. I'll also always include a link to the video's original uploader, so you can always seek out and reward the person who originally went to all the trouble to digitize video.

This was a fun little Movable Type project for the afternoon. Bit of a mind-stretch to get the coding to present as I wanted it... and I'm unfortunately ganking some bandwidth from YouTube to grab the thumbnail images. So we'll see how long that lasts. It would be nice if YouTube had a embed solution for thumbnails, just as they do for the video itself.

And of course, the first video I chose to appear on the fourhman.com main page is that terrible David Hasselhoff video that everybody is braying over at the moment. I'm such a hypocrite.

EDIT: The videos section has since been removed, replaced by the Week in Links entries.