We have Google mail, , Google chat, Google phone, and even Google TV – and now…Google films? Yes, it’s true – in a direct head-to-head, Google is taking on giants Netflix, Hulu, and iTunes, with its new Google video rental service. Technically, it’s actually YouTube movie rentals (also known as YouTube Pay Content), as the new Google ‘pay per view’ video rental service through which you stream the movies ‘on demand’ is through their YouTube property. In fact, it’s already up and running.

Forget spam, phishing, or selling your kidney on eBay (none of which you can legally do anyways). The newest way to make money on the Internet is, apparently, to take advantage of your child’s intoxicated state while he’s recovering from anesthesia after dental surgery. As “David After Dentist” shows us, the way that you do this is to video your child while he’s still loopy from the anesthesia, post the video on YouTube, and wait for the money to roll in. And, in the real life case of “David After Dentist”, that money has rolled in to the tune of about $150,00, and is still coming.

By now just about everyone has heard the story of the “Bush shoe thrower” – the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, and called him a “dog”, while Bush was talking at a press conference in Baghdad. Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw both his shoes and the epithet at Bush before denouncing him as having brought death and sorrow to Iraq as a result of six years of war. What is amazing about this story – among other things – is how quickly that incident made it around the world. And that is because of the Internet.

Abraham K. Biggs, known as Candy Junkie on the BodyBuilding .com forums that he frequented, had threatened to commit suicide many times. However, last week, he really meant it. And so it was that Abraham Biggs downed an overdose of anti-depressent medications, and hundreds of people watched his webcam while he died.

We often have debates here at the Internet Patrol about which people prefer: to watch an online video, or to read the same material as text.

The conventional wisdom is that Internet video is the future of the Internet. But we know lots of people who, given a choice, would rather read about something than watch a video about it. Now someone is actually researching this! So please take this short survey!

Word has leaked out about Amazon Video on Demand – which allows you to stream videos from Amazon rather than having to download videos from Amazon – and which will replace Amazon Unbox. In fact the streaming is the main difference – Amazon Unbox allowed you to download television shows and movies from Amazon. With Amazon Video on Demand – because it’s streaming – you can start watching the television show or movie instantly, because you don’t have to wait for anything to download.

Hulu.com is a video-on-demand service offering 250 TV series, from old classics to contemporary favorites, and clips from a further 150 series; 100 full-length movies; sports highlights from the NBA and the NHL; and Web-based programs – all free! Firefly fans will be thrilled to find 14 episodes there, alongside Dragnet and, yes, Nanny and the Professor.

“Is water boarding torture?” is a question that many are asking these days. Now a live water board video has hit the Internet, purposely put on the worldwide web in order to allow people to witness someone being water boarded, and to decide for themselves. See the video of Kaj Larson getting waterboarded here.

Perhaps nobody is more glad than Google itself that Google this week rolled out its You Tube Video Identification (You Tube Video ID) program – which does video fingerprinting in order to identify copies of copyrighted video material as it is uploaded to YouTube.

The YouTube video website has been blocked from all of Thailand after a video appeared on the YouTube site which insults the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, explains Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, Thailand’s Minister of Information and Technology.

What would you think medeval tech support would look like? Every once in a while we need a good laugh, and we think that this midevil tech support video – about what medeival tech support would have been like in mideval times – just fits the bill!

Microsoft joined the Internet Video sites today with its launch of Microsoft Soapbox. The new free Internet video site, offering free Internet video clips contributed by users, like YouTube and YouTube owner Google’s Google Video, hopes to capture YouTube viewers’ hearts and allegiance. On first glance, Microsoft Soapbox looks like YouTube and Google Video in the ways that you would expect. But is Microsoft Soapbox similar to YouTube enough to really be a contender? And is “similar to YouTube” enough, or does it need to be far better?

Chris Hughes has created a video of how to control your Roomba vacuum with your Nintendo Wii remote control – as Roomba hacks go it’s a good one – and the video is taking the Internet by storm. Oh, and if you want to try this Roomba hack at home, Chris has also provided the source code!

Our newest site on the web shows you “how to” with a collection of how-to videos! LearnHowTo.TV offers visitors a wde range of how-to videos, on a broad range of topics, all for free!

The Zeon portable DVD player with integrated iPod video dock from iLuv is one hot new device, and they make fantastic Christmas gifts! This portable DVD player with integrated video iPod dock (also misleadingly called the “jWin iLuv Portable Tablet Video System for Apple iPod Video”) is the easiest way on the planet to watch all those video podcasts and television shows you’ve downloaded from the Internet to your video iPod (while traveling, or even at home or work), without developing a permasquint! And with a 7″ video screen, built-in speakers, viewing stand, and remote, it’s also a full on portable DVD player, all in one compact 10″ x 6″ package! Yes, you really can take it with you!