There has been some approaches to deal with web programming, redone. I'm thinking about OPA at http://mlstate.com/ in particular.

Would you please be ever so kind to read grand-parent and parent (aka the thread). Do you need a (gimp) picture?

I don't get your rant: Linux can't even run GUI applications, so there is really no alternative to Windows. -- Upgrade to 7 now.

Well, the Afghans have mules, that cost nearly 0 and already pass where Humvee's stop. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2009/0504/p22s01-usmi.html

This seems quite strange, if we consider that AdWords was the first miracle for Google's business in 2000.
Do people really want to see video ads? Isn't it even more disturbing than banners? I hate the flash video ads in imdb for example. In the beginning, they even had sound turned on by default!
Google isn't completely stupid, since they won't try this on their own site... Maybe only a move to suggest bad ideas to its competitors ;)