Pop Up Ads.... *punches wall*
#Source: This clip of a man trying to close an online pop-up ad will make you seethe
Change Your Destiny
#"When God closes one door, somewhere he leaves a window open."
[youtu.be/wEsSelxH1...](https://youtu.be/wEsSelxH1yw)
Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine)
#Out of things to try for dinner? How about trying what they used to eat in the 50s?
[embed]www.youtube.com/watch
The Man and the Dog
#An advert encouraging people to be organ donors and at times, reminding me of Hachi’s story.
Why machine translations are always a problem...
#Strength is a skill you acquire, It's not always about size - YouTube
#Strength is a skill you acquire, It’s not always about size - YouTube.
Best man's wedding song will make you an emotional mess
#It is usually things like this that someone then points out to me later that it is a fake or a hoax. Well, I’ll leave you to decide…
Monty Oum
#The name may not mean much to some people, but to some, he is a well-known game animator, producing hugely popular shorts and series such as RWBY and my favourite, Dead Fantasy – a cross between Dead or Alive and Final Fantasy. It has been reported that he has passed away due to an allergic reaction during a medical procedure that put him in a coma.
Here is the blog entry detailing the news: roosterteeth.com/members/j…
And in case you haven’t seen his work, here is Dead Fantasy (all the parts spliced together)
Before The Fall
#The first major update since I started playing FFXIV is imminent, and Square Enix has put up videos on their YouTube channel in English, French, German and Japanese (English one below)
The Conference Call
#Final Fantasy
#Grrr. So I uploaded some Final Fantasy videos over the weekend using my mobile phone to speed things up, and one of them got hit immediately by Square Enix. They were only opening videos….
Uploading (and Resuming) videos to YouTube via GoogleCL and AWS - Updated 15th Dec
#If you are like me, and have a slow and/or unreliable internet connection, trying to upload any reasonably-sized video to YouTube can be a nightmare, forcing you to have your computer on for hours on end, and then finding your upload failed because your connection dropped, and then having to start all over again.
Well, one way to have resume protection is to use a middle-point, which is Amazon Web Services, or a similar cloud-based provider, then using that to upload to YouTube. Since the connection between the cloud system and YouTube is likely to be more reliable (and faster) than your connection, the upload from the cloud system to YouTube will be faster.
The first step is to setup and start an instance on AWS. I am using the Ubuntu image.
SSH into the instance and install supporting packages via apt-get or aptitude. Make sure you change the IP (xx.xx.xx.xx) and the key (AWS_Ireland.pem) to match your files.
$ ssh -o IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/AWS_Ireland.pem ubuntu@xx.xx.xx.xx $ sudo apt-get install python-gdata python-support rsync
Then download the latest googlecl deb file from https://code.google.com/p/googlecl/downloads/list
$ wget [googlecl.googlecode.com/files/goo...](https://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/googlecl_0.9.14-2_all.deb)
Now, install the deb file using dpkg
$ sudo dpkg -i googlecl_0.9.14-2_all.deb
We can now start using the Google services, but first we need to authenticate. This is normally done via a browser, but since we are in a terminal, we skip this.
$ google youtube list Please specify user: [enter your email address here]
You will see a text-version of the login page. Don’t bother entering your values. Just press ‘q’ to quit and confirm exit. Then, you’ll see in the terminal window, a url along the lines of this:
Please log in and/or grant access via your browser at:
[www.google.com/accounts/...](https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthAuthorizeToken?oauth_token=){hidden}&hd=default
Go to that url and sign in. Then, come back to the console and press enter. If all goes well, you should see your video uploads in the console window.
Now, to upload a video to the AWS instance. You can use rsync for that, and the command to enter into your local terminal is as follows (change the key file to match yours and the IP address field to match your instance’s IP):
rsync -vhPz --compress-level=9 -e "ssh -o IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/AWS_Ireland.pem" source ubuntu@{EC2_IP}:.
This uploads the video called “source” onto your EC2 instance at the home folder of the default user (if you have another location in your instance, use that here). Rsync will allow you to resume uploads via the P switch. When the rsync command successfully completes, you can then SSH back onto the instance, and use the “google youtube post” command to upload your video onto YouTube.
NOTE: On some large files, rsync breaks on resuming with the error message “broken pipe”, if this happens to you, see this page (specifically, Q3).
Once your video is uploaded to your EC2 instance, you can then upload that video to YouTube by using this:
$ google youtube post path/to/video
Christmas Surprise Traffic Stop with Lowell Police
#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnxajQrL8w
Christmas Surprise Traffic Stop with Lowell Police - YouTube.
Wizards of Winter
#(Best with headphones)
Gangnam Style Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Broke YouTube’s Code | TechCrunch
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Gangnam Style Has Been Viewed So Many Times It Broke YouTube’s Code | TechCrunch.
Can Daigo do the full parry again? vs. Justin Wong *2014 - YouTube
#Deja Vu (this link)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nC2D6sOrbg
via Can Daigo do the full parry again? vs. Justin Wong *2014 - YouTube.
Music Advances
#Ludovico Einaudi using two iPads to play I Giorni. www.youtube.com/watch
Hello Bank advert, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra play the Overture from Carmen using only mobile phones and tablets. www.youtube.com/watch
Kitten Therapy
#Let me in there!
Text Me Merry Christmas
#Father Chris Picco's rendition of Blackbird by the Beatles to his newborn son hours before he passes away and after his wife Ashley Picco died in childbirth is heartbreaking | Metro News
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This might be one of the most difficult videos to get through without crying ever.Musician Chris Picco was recently filmed gently singing the Beatles song Blackbird to his three-day-old baby, the aptly named Lennon.
Lennon’s birth just 72 hours before was a complicated one, and his mother Ashley sadly died after giving birth to him.
You can donate to the Ashley Picco Memorial Fund here.
Hours after Chris serenaded his son, baby Lennon also passed away.
The video of one of the last intimate moments between the father and son was uploaded to Youtube by a friend where it instantly went viral.
Wushu Asians Are The BEST At Choreography
#Go the F**K to sleep
#Warning, video contains swearing.
OUVRE-MOI
#Ouvrez la porte!
Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace
#TED videos are always inspirational. With all the fighting going on in and around, it is nice to know that there are some who refuse to follow in the footsteps of their extremist forefathers.
Bride shares final dance with her dying father and it will break your heart
#If this doesn’t make you at least slightly tear up, you must have a heart of stone. Knowing what its like to have your own father in hospital, I can feel for Lisa.
