Then KeepVid is the site you need. Simply paste in the URL of the page at YouTube, Google Video or wherever else that your desired video is on, select which site it is from the drop-down menu and hit the "Download" button. In a few seconds KeepVid generates a clickable "save as..." link, which in the case of YouTube you'll need to add the .FLV extension to it and have a Flash video player like this one installed in order to watch it from your hard...
Monday, June 19, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Pigs R Us takes the checkered flag in race for excellent barbecue
Last month when Lisa and I were in Charleston for "Weird" Ed and Olivia's wedding, we were watching some TV in our hotel room one night and happened to catch a special on the Food Network about the Best of the West Rib Cook-Off that's held every year in Reno, Nevada. The program was filmed during the 2004 competition, and our mouths watered at the sight of all those beautiful...
Biggest mistake ever in comic book history
Or, it could wind up being one of the best and boldest ever. You might have heard the news already that Spider-Man "outs" himself as Peter Parker before a stunned press conference (and an even more stunned J. Jonah Jameson) in Times Square. It all takes place in issue #2 of the Civil War saga going on right now from Marvel Comics. In a story that's playing out across several...
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Westboro Baptist members will die sooner or later
On November 3rd, 1979, the Communist Workers Party staged a rally not far away from here in Greensboro, North Carolina. Party members were trying to organize local workers to oppose the Ku Klux Klan. During the rally the protestors chanted "Death to the Klan!", especially as a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis drove past. A few minutes later the Nazi-Klan people parked their...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
When "God Hates Fags" comes to town: My night with the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas
I reported yesterday about Shirley Phelps Roper, spokeswoman for the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas and the notorious "God Hates Fags" website, coming to our studio later in the evening to talk about her group's demonstrating at the Southern Baptist Convention going on in Greensboro. They're especially miffed at a ten-foot statue of evangelist Billy Graham that...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
"God Hates Fags" spokeswoman in our studio tonight
Shirley Phelps Roper (shown at right) will be in our station's studio tonight from 7 until approximately 9 P.M. Phelps Roper is the daughter of Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. Maybe you've heard of their website GodHatesFags.com. You've probably also heard about how they've been picketing at the funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers who...
Monday, June 12, 2006
Darth Plagueis the subject of upcoming Star Wars novel
The news has been out for a few days now but I'm just getting word from the official Star Wars website that James Luceno will be writing a new Star Wars novel that delves into the mystery of Darth Plagueis. I am tremendously looking forward to this book, for two reasons. The first is that it's being written by James Luceno (his most recent entry into the Star Wars mythos, Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader is a rollickin' good read about the early...
Sunday, June 11, 2006
CARS review
Cars is a movie that with each passing hour since we came out of seeing it (at 2:30 this afternoon and it's four hours later now), I'm finding myself loving it more and more. I definitely believe it's a far better movie than anything I went in expecting to see. Once I got over the initial shock of realizing that this entire little computer-animated universe was populated...
Saturday, June 10, 2006
New job
I started a new job this past week. But rather than say exactly what it is that I'm doing, I thought it would be more fun to let my readers try and figure out what it is that I've wound up doing this time. So here's the hint: I'm basically doing what this guy does, in very much the exact same kind of place...
Friday, June 09, 2006
DOCTOR WHO on Sci-Fi tonight: "The Parting of the Ways" as Eccleston bows out in style
"The extrapolator's working, we've got a fully functioning force-field. Try saying that when you’re drunk.""Worship him! Worship him! Worship him!""I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape. And that's okay, hope it's a good death... Have a good life.""He's fighting for us, this whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips!""You are the weakest...
First official piece of TRANSFORMERS art
At this point, I'll remain cautiously optimistic about this movie. But this first teaser poster really has me hoping for good things come next July...Click image for larger v...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
YOU'RE PITIFUL: "Weird Al" Yankovic releases new song as free download!
"Weird Al" Yankovic is supposed to have a new album coming out sometime soon (what he calls "record label politics" kept it from having a June release). But in the meantime, Al is whetting everyone's appetite for what's to come with "You're Pitiful", a parody of the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful". And... Weird Al has made "You're Pitiful" an absolutely FREE MP3 that...
Al-Zarqawi is dead... so now what?
You've probably heard already Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the real top dog in the Al-Quaeda organization, was killed earlier today in an air raid. This was the guy who was apparently planning and coordinating a lot of the attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers.Great, we nailed a bad guy. One of the biggest terrorist ringleaders even.So... when does the "War on Terror" stop?When do we go back to the America we had before 9-11, when our government...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Alan Keyes tells George W. Bush: "We don't trust you!"
I voted for Alan Keyes in two primary elections when I was registered Republican. Keyes was the only person in a presidential race that I felt completely comfortable with giving my support to. Somewhere on my hard disks I've still got a picture I made in early 2000 of Keyes as a Jedi Master: it wound up getting shown to him and it got reported back to me that he got a big...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
6-6-6
Today is 62nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. Today is also, by a quirk of the calendar, abbreviated as 06-06-06: six-six-six, the number of the beast according to the Book of Revelation. The number that is supposed to identify the Anti-christ that will arise in the end times.In my junior year of high school I was assigned locker #666. I opened it several times a day and there were no scenes of Dante's Inferno lurking in there that I ever saw...
Monday, June 05, 2006
Long live EVERWOOD (while 7th HEAVEN begs for merciful death)
Our TV was tuned in to the final episode of Everwood this evening. Which I never watched as an avid viewer but Lisa's always loved this show, so I watched it with her. One of the classier shows on television, from what I've come to know of it. It's been on the WB Network and was supposed to be carried over next season when that network and UPN combine into the CW... but then the "series finale" of 7th Heaven got big ratings so the suits decide...
King James Onlyism is a Gnostic heresy
I've been meaning to state that for a while.Some people may not know what I'm talking about. It's this: the belief among a lot of Christians that we are only supposed to use the Authorized Version of 1611 – more commonly known as the King James Version – of the Bible as our text. They further believe that it's a dire sin to use any version of the Bible other than King James.(For the record, I use the New International Version in my personal study,...
