How about another test of the embedded Flash Player? This time in stereo. Here is a video clip from Almost Famous. The mythical band Stillwater sings along to a chopped-up recording of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer,” which is fitting because the video is tiny, too!
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Embed Back From the Dead
How’s this? My first Flash-style embedded video, with a preview frame, without the jumpiness seen with the Media Player box when scrolling. And without resorting to YouTube™.
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The results have their own technical drawbacks and advantages. This wasn’t easy to do!
This clip shows, as promised previously, Moira Shearer about 10 years after she was in The Tales of Hoffmann. Here she is in 1960’s Peeping Tom, also directed by Michael Powell.
PD is not PC
The model for this blog is Mark Evanier’s News from ME. Ain’t no secret or shame in that. Swipe from your superiors, I say. Evanier is a successful writer of books, cartoons, comic-books and TV shows and, as Randy Newman sang, he loves L.A.
By clicking here you will see that Mark has mixed feelings about this TV ad being broadcast in Missouri, featuring Parkinson’s Disease sufferer Michael J. Fox.
If the area above is blank, blame YouTube™!
MJ Fox isn’t asking for money here, he’s asking for votes. And he’s right — sometimes the late Tip O’Neill’s maxim that "all politics is local" is only partly true.
Feed Me My Strips
A blogger named Ian “iSnoop” Anthony has come up with a nifty and free service that lets you pick comic strips for delivery via e-mail. He calls it the Comic Strip Snagger. It was offline for a while, but it’s working again, so give it a try. Not every syndicate makes its comics available for this sort of access (RSS feed), but there’s still a nice collection to choose from.
History, Westfield Style
Westfield State College is sponsoring an off-campus seminar this weekend for history teachers. I missed the notice about this, but Conan the Historian caught it. I make mention of this for the benefit of my best buddy Dennis F. Rogers, who has his BA in History from WSC.
New York Radio ‘Box Set’
Here are links to all five parts of the previously-posted video history of New York Top 40 radio, along with some extras. Don’t miss the jingles, taken from the original master tapes.
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