Someone I know has been going just a little overboard with the embedded video lately. I was about to start poking fun at this new-toy obsession, but this amazing parody of how Microsoft would market the iPod just made me want to join the cool kids:

Embedded video doesn't work in RSS so you'll have to go to the actual post.

Do I even need to articulate the very important lessons that your average marketing department should take away from this little gem of hilarity? Probably not. Oh, the power of video.

PS: Can someone tell me why it was such a ridiculous pain to hack together an embedded video code that validates as XHTML transitional? I'm sure IE users won't even be able to see what I put up here. W3C, get with it, Google is giving bloggers embed tags so we're gonna want to use 'em!

Update: For those of you googling in for valid embedding code, I'm no longer using the version I whipped up at the time of posting. My new template cuts it off on the left and I'm lacking the patience to piece together a solution. Maybe later.