Tag: YouTube
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The peculiarity of Beau of the Fifth Column
If you want to persuade someone, generally you have to look a lot like someone you are trying to persuade. You’d like to think that we’d be all Vulcan and clinically analyze the facts, but in general you need to be a scientist for this to work. Even a lot of scientists have their own…
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Virtual plane spotting
Are you a plane spotter? I’ll never be enough of one to park myself just outside the fence of a local airport to watch them takeoff and land. But watching these metal behemoths landing and taking off with such regularity virtually is a bit mesmerizing, and enough to keep me watching various plane spotting channels…
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Is Google trying to kill YouTube?
If you watch YouTube (as I do regularly) you’ve likely noticed a few changes. Specifically, you should be noticing a lot more ads. To me, the limited ads were one of its attractions, aside from the breadth of information you can find on the site. Like many YouTubers I think, I have a short attention…
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So bad, it’s good … and mesmerizing
YouTube: a treasure trove of the good, the bad, the indifferent, the mediocre and the ugly. Actually, I rarely visit the place. The few videos I do watch on YouTube come as recommendations. This one appeared in my wife’s LiveJournal, posted by a friend of hers. I happened to peer over her shoulder and asked…
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