Embedding higher quality Youtube videos (”&fmt=18″)
I’ve hardly linked to or saved a Youtube video without adding “&fmt=18” for the last six months, but embedding higher quality videos was a mystery to me.
The trick turns out to be the addition of &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of the url part of the embed code.
Embedded below is footage from the last moments of the sixties.
October 29 2008 was apparently “The Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies”. WTF:
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”
See also: more photos from the prayer, a video, The Charging Bull statue
[via:Pharyngula]
Ars Technica reviews “Night of Bush Capturing” (islamist propaganda game)
The following Youtube video of the “final boss” is included in the review.
[via:rms]
Hjälp Maarit Feldt-Ranta skydda barnen från demokrati och yttrandefrihet!
Maarit Feldt-Ranta förstår inte vad hon talar om, hatar frihet och är en fara för samhället.
Ni som delar hennes “think of the children”-inångade moralpanik och ovetande om tekniska konsekvenser förespråkar masspionage och åsiktsregistrering riktat mot internetanvändare, vänligen dra åt helvete och lämna er rösträtt i korgen vid dörren, så kan vi andra uppskjuta nånslags DDR-tillvaro med några år.
Freestyle Powerizer Stilts are tools used in some new “extreme sport”. Swebounce.com (related to one of the persons in the video) describes the phenomenon as follows:
“Powerisers are bouncy stilts that you strap yourself into. With some training you can run as fast as 20mph and jump 2 meters high. For many people it’s enough to just run around and bounce but there are many kind of tricks you can perform on powerisers. I would say that this is the extreme sport of the future.”
See also: hemoves.com, a site of one of the performers.
[via:Matt Heaton]
Mythbusters not allowed to discuss RFID (in)security
During the first couple of minutes of this video, Adam Savage reveals that the major credit card companies didn’t approve of MythBusters discussing RFID.
[via:BoingBoing]
Ubiquity for Firefox: short commands for “instant mashups”
See also: Ubiquity on the Mozilla Wiki, Vimeo link to the video.
[via:Scoble]
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects
The article has a broken link to dimensions-math.org.
[via:Slashdot]
The guy behind this exercise in abusing his own time also provides an alternate version comparing Obamas moves with Astley’s.
[via:Extralife]
The Dark Knight - Joker Interrogation Scene Spoof
“Alternate take of Batman and the Joker’s first conversation in The Dark Knight. [...] I play the Joker, and I play Batman. Same guy. I did everything except punch myself in the face”
[via:Dvorak]
Reminds me of this weird animation. The tune is from some Brazilian pop song if I remember correctly.