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Now that’s just not playing fair.

This is the first I’ve heard of this, but this is the first trailer release of a new movie being produced entirely on Open Source software, under a Creative Commons license.

Big Buck Bunny - Official Trailer on Vimeo

Does Youtube simply not grasp RSS?

Viewing any RSS enabled web site in Firefox or Konquerer, I get a little button in my browser that allows me to add that RSS feed directly to my RSS agregator. In Firefox, this defaults to it’s own “Livemarks” system, in Konquerer the default is the Kontact/Akregator application, but both have a mechanism to define another reader.

Click on this little button when viewing any page on Youtube and you get… a broken RSS feed.
In Firefox it takes you to, not the RSS feed, but a page EXPLAINING HOW TO GET THE RSS FEED. If I need an explanation I would look for a link ON the page that says “about our RSS feeds” or something similar. If I click the “subscribe” button, which is generated by the “link rel=’alternate’ type=’application/rss+xml’”, I expect I’ll get an RSS feed, not human-readable page ABOUT rss feeds.

On top of this, they don’t offer a feed of something simple like, say, all of my “subscribed” channels. No, I can get a feed of MY vides (videos I’ve uploaded. Useless to me since I don’t upload videos. I’m a consumer, not a producor.), all new videos (The last thing I want is an RSS feed of every new video posted to Youtube), etc.
Even viewing the page for one of my subscriptions, there’s no link to subscribe to the RSS feed. Sure, the “about” page tells me what URL syntax to put in my RSS reader to GET that page, but why don’t they just put the simple header IN the html page so I can use the tools just about every browser provides to subscribe to the RSS?

Apparently for Youtube, Really Simple Syndication means “you do the work”.

Starting at about 5:10 into this video, as the camera is panning to the right over the wreckage: sure glad teh fire didn’t reach and touch off those cannisters!

press interview with Dallas Fire-Rescue Lt. Joel Lavender

Well it looks like I won’t be transporting a server from Savvis to Databank right now.

Video On Demand | WFAA.com

Traffic.com | Dallas

I just discovered Manjulas Kitchen on Youtube. Can’t wait to try out some of her recipes!

Until you’ve heard Beethoven’s 5th jazzed up on traditional Chinese instruments.

Because I will never go to bed once I start browsing:

Youtube.
Wikipedia.
Snopes.

And with the power of Youtube, I can watch this one over and over…

(You can see that the driver of the SUV / minivan can see where this is about to go and wants no part of it.)

I’ve discovered youtube is as dangerous as Wikipedia. I can get on either site and get wrapped up in it for hours following crosslinks.

Tonight I’ve been fascinated by a series of videos, apparently from a music festival in Cracow, Poland. I don’t understand a word of Polish but the talent is amazing. I’m guessing that this festival was also a benefit concert for some sort of cause. A lot of the performers appear to have a disability of one sort or another. One young boy in a wheelchair (but that doesn’t let him hold back belting out a great tune). A couple of singers I suspect are blind, one who is either a dwarf or has developed one amazing singing talent for a 5 year old (Actually I’m leaning in the direction of “talented kid” right now. Her face is just too young. But where she learned to sing like that at her age I’ll never know.)

It’s amazing how good music can sound, even when the words are absolutely unintelligible gibberish to the listener.

Already posted by Densar and klwalton, but worth posting again, if only because he said it so well:

Who has left this hole in the ground?
We have not forgotten, Mr. President.
You have.
May this country forgive you.