I love YouTube. It is sort of like the wild west of entertainment. Lots of really good stuff and some unbelievably bad stuff as well. One of the real valuable aspects is that you can find instructions and guidance on doing just about everything. Five random searches done just now revealed YouTube help on the following:
1. Field-dressing a moose.
2. Whale meat recipes.
3. How to perform an exorcism.
4. Efficient dumpster diving.
5. How to artificially inseminate your goat.
There are some real clunkers out there, particularly those who have a modicum of knowledge about something and then do a series of how-to videos about that something that are often incredibly offbase and can be dangerous. As a young man I spent some years logging up in Minnesota, and one day recently just idly browsing through YouTube topics I found a guy instructing on the correct way to use a chain saw. Except that he had no clue. Some of the stuff he was doing was counterproductive, but some of it (he was cutting with the back of the blade) can cause serious injuries.
Pays to be selective, I guess.
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