Posts from — May 2008

Ahh, another brilliant way to waste time on the internet while at work…

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So what happens to the videos that are removed from YouTube due to Copyright Complaints? They are tracked down and documented over at YouTomb of course. Has someone ever sent you a link to YouTube and by the time you get it, the video is gone? It’s happened to me a bunch of times, and then I get all pissed because I never get to see what all the hubbub was about.

Well to be honest, you’re still screwed. YouTomb tracks down videos that have been removed from YouTube for alleged copyright violations and then puts information about that video up on their site. This is actually a project by the student organization, MIT Free Culture that was created to find aggregate mistakes that may have been made by the YouTube algorithm.

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So this guy, I believe is named Manu Delago, plays something called a Hang Drum, which I’ve never seen before, but I wish I have. Anyway, all he does is tap in different areas of these things and makes some really great music. Ok, so I make it sound a little easier than it really is and I’m sure it takes a long time to actually learn this stuff. Anyway, check out this video and be prepared to be extremely relaxed and intoxicated in beautiful sounds of music.

We know that we shouldn’t feed our dogs human food; either because we don’t want to spoil them, we don’t want them to start begging when we’re eating dinner, or because we don’t want them to have a poor and fatty diet. But many of us do it anyway.

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…they’re all younger than presidential candidate, John McCain.

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