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Andy Baio [PersonRank 2]

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
15 years ago3,869 views

If you like that, you'd probably like my YouTube Favorites [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=waxpancake&view=favorites] and Subscriptions [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?YouTubeUsername=waxpancake&_id=58e4f59f9e5e3282aaffdcbaf05ba68d&_render=rss&itemLimit=50].

[Link formatting updated since HTML isn't supported – Tony]

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I really seem to miss the point of this post... I assume I am missing something really obvious...

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

How long it did to make that post and those links.. Huh!

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

David, I figured this compilation might be of interest if you want to watch some noteworthy videos. Currently I'm working on some project where we need a lot of fun videos, so this link compilation is one of the side-effects of that project, and I'd figured maybe others could enjoy this too.

Juha-Matti, I wrote a small script to pull these, so it was all automated. Right now though I'm going through every video manually to check which have been removed by now... I'm marking those with a strike-through in the post. (That part could be automated as well but I need to watch each video once anyway.)

J. McNair [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

TL;DR

But seriously, I'm curious about "some project where we need a lot of fun videos". Many of your little projects are a source of fun or niche utility, so I wonder when and what you can say about your newest one?

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Nice that it can be automated (even getting the title fields from videos?)

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Yes, that's right. Here's the PHP5 routine I used, which uses XPath:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/grab-waxy.txt

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Thnks for the link to the routine!

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

> But seriously, I'm curious about "some project where we
> need a lot of fun videos". Many of your little projects are
> a source of fun or niche utility, so I wonder when and what
> you can say about your newest one?

Oh, and to answer that question: the videos are for the interstitials for the waiting times at http://captionx.com . My friend also spun off a separate site where they're hosted: http://funny15.com ... with all videos being 15 seconds long.

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