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Yesterday YouTube rolled out a new feature called Video Annotations. It’s a way to add interactive content to YouTube videos and after playing around with it some, I think this might be one of the best things that YouTube has done yet for its users. You can include commentary, add dialogue balloons, even link to other YouTube videos. Lots of possibilities here. During a break this morning I gave The Baritones the “Pop-Up Video” treatment…

I’m thinking, whenever I get the time, to include annotations for Forcery and Schrodinger’s Bedroom as well. By the way, right now Video Annotations is a beta feature and doesn’t support embedded videos (so you’ll have to click on The Baritones link above to check it out). It’s also automatically on by default, but you can toggle the feature with a new button that’s to the right of the “full screen” one (it’s the ...

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With the new season of Doctor Who now airing on the BBC (and very soon here in America on the Sci-Fi Channel, thanks for the tip Geoff!) a lot of fans are celebrating the return of the Doctor. Here’s what one clever chap did: mashing up footage of both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Doctor from the revived series, with Waylon Jennings’ classic theme song from The Dukes of Hazzard…

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Late last night I succeeded in finally putting every episode of Lost on my new iPod. And I didn’t buy them through iTunes and load ’em on the iPod either: instead I chose to rip them straight from my DVD sets.

This took a lot of work. And when I was starting it off with Season 3, I wound up encoding most of those episodes, then found a much better way to do it and so I started the whole process all over again. But in the end, they were all done (and I might buy the Season 4 episodes over iTunes to add them to my iPod’s inventory starting next month when Lost returns).

So how’d I do it, on a computer running Windows Vista? The first thing I did was use HandBrake, which is a free program for most platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux) that converts DVDs ...

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A few days before Christmas, Lisa and I were at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh and we wound up going into the Apple Store there. That was the first time that I ever beheld the video capability of the iPod. The first thing that I thought about was that this would be a neat way to carry around my video work to show to people. It was enough to make me forget about my initial reluctance to get an iPod (which has mostly been based on how they don’t have user-replaceable batteries).

So last week, on our way back from Georgia, we stopped at a Best Buy and I used a gift card that was a Christmas present from Mom, and got me an 80 gigabyte iPod classic. And I have to admit: this is a very addictive little gadget to have! I’m finally starting to understand why so many ...

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About a year and a half ago, I had a first-hand encounter with the Westboro Baptist Church – aka the “God Hates Fags” church – when a bunch of them came to WGSR (where I was working at the time) so that Shirley Phelps Roper could do a live interview. In my initial report I wrote about how the Westboro Baptist members were singing really blasphemous “parodies” of well-known songs.

Well, Phillip Arthur found something: a music video by the Westboro Baptist Church. It is, quite easily, the most evil music video that I have ever seen in my life.

If you are bothered or offended easily, you may not want to watch this. The entire thing is very disgusting, but it’s the last several seconds of it that are especially nauseating. Whoever it is that put that little kid up to this, should be hauled-up on charges....

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In 1953, a young North Carolina actor named Andy Griffith did a stand-up routine about the game of football. The recording of it became a runaway bestseller across the country, and it quickly propelled Griffith toward major motion picture roles and of course The Andy Griffith Show. And since that time “What It Was, Was Football!” has become one of the best-known comedy monologues in history.

I first heard this bit around 1984, when the local edition of P.M. Magazine did a video clip of Griffith’s routine accompanied by footage from a local game. They even had a guy act out the “Buddy have a drink!” part. I thought it was pretty hilarious and years later when I spotted an Andy Griffith CD at a store in Asheville I bought it, just for “What It Was, Was Football!”. It’s now on my MP3 player 🙂

And guess what? You ...

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