We were only recently introduced to this footage of a quite extraordinary news broadcast showing the dynamiting of a dead whale back in 1970 in Florence, OR.  The footage in its original form was probably only seen by less than a 100,000 people, but via YouTube, it became the fifth most viewed viral video of all time, with over 350 million views, and is claimed as something of a touchstone for the Echo Boomers who helped pass it around. Asylum tracked down the original reporter, Paul Linnman, who's apparently proud to have become a late-in-life web sensation. It makes sense that Gen Ys touchstones are going to be, well, 9/11 (for us too), the iPod, and YouTube. But what will the web do next, besides delight, disgust and amaze us?