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NICK DOUGLAS — Ever been at the bar at 2 A.M. and see one of those striped-shirt bridge-and-tunnel guys make a desperate last-call pass at the sketchiest girl in the establishment? It looks like the video partnership between the San Jose Mercury News and PodTech.net. Their debut video features Yahoo Brickhouse (the net giant's San Francisco startup incubator which is, rumor has it, as hopeless as PodTech and the Merc). I don't know who edited this thing, because I couldn't stand the dark video and distracting background noise long enough to see the credits. But I'm guessing the black-and-white hyper-actively subtitled intro was commissioned from a high school film class. And oh boy you can watch it below!