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Stephen put together this seriously awesome video of the Dot Com Pho Crew’s adventures in Taipei set to the tune of Weezer’s Pork and Beans a few days ago and if you haven’t seen it, it is totally made of epic and win. It’s fitting since the original video is comprised of the internet famous. While I won’t attest to being at the same level as the Cho-co-late Rain or Dramatic Gopher…it’s quite an appropriate song, especially when you see how Stephen cuts it.

And just to clarify…that is a camera in my hand, not an iPhone (that was a fun night)…and I still have nightmares of those dudes in their matching skin-tight camo…as well as ponytail baldie. Seriously, if you’re bald, you’re not fooling anyone. I’m not sure who looks stupidier…a bald guy with a mullet, two dudes in matching shirts or Michael Kwan trying to attach a webcam to his head.

…and yes, that’s me doing a Rocky celebration after running up those stairs. I did that when I went to Philadelphia as well…but that is luckily not on film somewhere on the internet.

Yes, I’ll get to my Tokyo post but first, I received an e-mail from Matt Harding yesterday informing me that the latest video of him dancing to that funky music, white boy…is up and running. I posted about Matt’s ridiculous but totally awesome “dancing around the world” videos and last September, when he said he would make a stop in Vancouver, I took the opportunity to go meet him and be in the video. Here’s us boogie-ing down. I’m not sure which one of us is better at dancing poorly…or whether that’s actually winning, really.

Here’s the whole video. Yes, it is, in fact, epic as hell and made of win…although the screenshots above are obviously the best part since I’m in it. But what the heck, watch the rest anyways.

It looks like all the other members of Dot Com Pho are settled back into their regular routines. In continuing with out new trend of shooting the exact same video from multiple points of view, both Stephen Fung and John Chow have made separate episodes of Dot Com Pho this week and they want you to decide which is best.

And by the way, Flip Flap freakin’ rules. I won an iPod at COMPUTEX but I think I’m much happier with my Flip Flap since I already have a wackload of iPods. Thanks Gigabyte!

The Dot Com Pho crew has been known to eat at some pretty unique places but I doubt we’ve ever been anywhere as strange as Modern Toilet in Taipei. That’s right…because real Dot Com Moguls eat out of toilets. Seriously…when Michael Kwan, Stephen Fung and I read about this restaurant…we knew we had to go. We dragged John Chow there as well.

Yes, there’s a restaurant in Taipei that serves everything in a toilet. It’s all relatively normal Taiwanese-style food but well, you’re eating it out of the crapper. I know this all sounds really disgusting but the food is actually really delicious and we had a great time there. I mean, we all thought it would be a huge gimmick (and it was) with terrible food like so many other novelty restaurants all over the world but the food at Modern Toilet was actually very good. We all said we’d go again. Even the prices are great. We ordered quite a bit and it came to a bit more than $10 a person.

I love winning things. There’s just something awesome about getting something for nothing. One of our friends, Jason from Techware Labs (one of those featured in a video in a previous post), won an MSI Wind ultra-portable Atom-based laptop but he had to blow something or other for it. Stephen Fung and I sat on our butts and drank all night at a great party thrown by the fine folks at Zotac and came away with an iPod nano each. I would’ve loved to have won the iPhones they were giving away as well but hey, I’m quite happy I won something…unlike poor Michael Kwan, who left empty handed. I told you you should’ve told them you were Sujeet or whatever, dude.

The thing is…I already have several iPods. Heck, I’ve got two of them along with me on my trip. So what exactly should I do with this one?

Oh, this is just some of the swag we’re leaving Taiwan with…that we might give away to our lucky readers.