Thanks! I actually written it some time ago, just waiting to plug in the 100th post link. (I may have been off by one, but close enough!)

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“Great stuff, Firefly!

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“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ””

Great stuff, Firefly!

Sc

In reply to your comment:
“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ”

Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven!

For the die hard Lynch fans: Can anyone spot the other Twin Peaks' actor other than Kyle MacLachlan in this clip?

No, this is from the TV series, fairly early on too... really the first hint that something is going on beneath the surface in Twin Peaks.

three comments:

(1) i'm confused as to how this works.

i understand you're afraid of siftbot, but crazy addicts will want to understand how this works. even if it's complicated, can you explain?

(2) it's not intuitive so far

i just gave the 10th vote to get farhad's robot guitar video published. but when you go to the front page, it's not there (some osama bin laden / family guy clip is first). when i started writing this, it was on the third page. a couple minutes later, it's on the second page, even though it still has the same number of votes and the same sift score.

so there seems to be a significant random element, or else the activity from the last X minutes is heavily weighted.

the problem with that model is that the published videos will jump around so much that sifting sequentially through 16 pages of videos (current number included in the hot sift) will be confusing. if it takes 5 or 10 minutes to get from page 2 to page 3, videos may pop down the list and "reappear" on page 3, or pop up the list and be missed entirely.

which means it will impossible even for hardcore addicts to know when they've managed to cast eyes on everything published. and there will be no way of knowing when you've "caught up", ie. seen everything published since last time you checked.

(3) i don't think this is a necessary innovation, in part because it's not adding much new beyond the "top videos -- 24 hours page" to the stereotypical superficial visitor (who looks at the front page or two and the top 15 sidebar, but not much else).

right now, here's how the hot sift stacks up against the top videos -- 24 hours page:

-- osama / family guy (#1 hot sift, #2 top 24)
-- restless goalie (#2 hot sift, #6 top 24)
-- beck loser (#3 hot sift, #1 top 24)
-- simpsons epcot center (#4 hot sift, #4 top 24)
** pedophile apeshit (#5 hot sift, #17 top 24)
** simpsons wiggum twin peaks (#6 hot sift, #19 top 24)
-- strangest tourist attraction (#7 hot sift, #9 top 24)
** family guy creationists (#8 hot sift, #16 top 24)
-- radish seed timelapse (#9 hot sift, #7 top 24)
-- silence of the lambs trailer (#10 hot sift, #8 top 24)

only 3 videos are on a different page than they would be, all with >10 votes in <10 hours, and thus all certain to be top of the 24 hour page before long (as older videos disappear)

see how the simpsons does their own take on this classic scene!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chief-Wiggum-Dreams-Twin-Peaks-Style

see the original
http://www.videosift.com/video/Agent-Coopers-First-Dream-Twin-Peaks

I think this is one of those dream sequences from Twin Peaks.

"Twin Peaks" was a cool show. Its soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti is very distinctive. He has worked with David Lynch on other movies too. Certain characters and situations have specific theme music in the same tradition as John William’s soundtrack in "Star Wars." Also, Michael Andrews did a cool job with the “Donnie Darko” soundtrack, again with thematic moments.

the soundtrack used on this is originally from David Lynch's Twin Peaks, fitting really... however, I must be a huge dork for knowing this.