Edited my comment and upvoted.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
umm...I'm an idiot.

In reply to this comment by curiousity:

Well, that figures...if you liked Ween, then you'd probably have been exposed to BAD at some point. "Duck, you suckers!"

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
yup! loved how they sampled the spaghetti westerns.

In reply to this comment by shuac:
Now yer talkin! Finally, some cinematic taste!

Any Big Audio Dynamite fans out there? If so, you'll understand why I ask.

Thanks for the promote

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
*promote

A follow-up to the World's fastest bicyclist post. He's done it again 'eh!

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-fastest-human-on-the-face-of-the-earth-is-Canadian-Eh

I used to have a fox statuette just like that icon looks! Very cool.

Thanks for sharing. Makes sense. Simple, but neat idea.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
Cute anti-spam technique:



Easy way to kill most spam on the spot:

- rename the name/link/etc. fields to something weird
- put this in your form:

(Leave these fields blank!)

- put this in the site stylesheet:
div.trap { display: none; visibility: hidden }

Then when processing the form, if there’s anything in the ‘name’ or ‘link’ fields, drop the post. This method alone has cut my spam by about 90-95%. I have no captcha, and no wonky heuristics that are eventually bound to flag legitimate data as spam at some point or another. Just a couple of innocent-looking fields that spambots fill in because they look important.

http://blog.dixo.net/2007/08/21/pastebin-fights-the-spam/

http://news.videosift.com/talk/NetRunner-hitsTop-15-Sifters-of-All-Time

http://cinema.videosift.com/talk/Willy-rasch187-Wonka-gets-his-250-Diamond-Ticket

Oh yeah. Flash AS3 mainly.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
heh - you're a developer too?

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Here! Here!

Thank you for the promote.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
*promote

Thinker247 hit a ton!

http://happy.videosift.com/talk/Thinker247-Is-Now-Thinker101-1

http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-Kids-make-you-Happy-Yes-and-No

It's dead.

Fix this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Girl-from-Ipanema-Frank-Sinatra-Tom-Jobim

By grabbing the embed from here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvhNiGIZuo

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

That's true. I might go fully Linux and let the kids learn how to use it properly. It would probably be a good thing anyway. Alternatively, I'm thinking of building a Hackintosh.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
heh.. spose that's true. I haven't yet put a family member onto it, but keep threatening too. Beats having machines wiped out by viri/spyware.

In reply to this comment by dag:
I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.