Video

While I hate Real as much as just about everybody else, I inadvertently downloaded an RMVB file today and was pleasantly surprised at the quality vs. file size ratio. At about 70MB for a 25 minute episode, the quality was - relatively speaking - extremely good.

To quote WP:

This is legendary conductor André Previn (very unprepared apparently) appearing as himself in a 1971 episode of Morecambe and Wise. I haven't laughed this much in a long while :P

Here's a little sample for those of you who aren't familiar with QI - a BBC show - which is like a no-holds-barred trivia show with comedians (and comediennes I suppose).

Part 1:

Part 2:

This site is fast dwindling into a Linux help site :S

Anyway, today's issue relates to a rather odd video issue I've been facing on an infrequent basis. Every now and then all video on my Gutsy box just goes out of whack. Playing any file which would have played fine 10 minutes earlier would display a screen full of garbled lines. The audio is always fine.

A hilarious piece on Pachelbel's Canon in D.

Fairly accurate portrayal of idiot comments in pick-your-favourite-community-site, I'd say :P

This is NSFW.

(yes, the title was totally made up :P)

If this isn't way cool, I don't know what is.

A pseudo-music-video montage based on the topics alluded to in Arundathi Roy's excellent speech (well, reading would be a more accurate description, I suppose) in Sydney. More information can be found at weroy.org.

Due to the fact that I am learning Spanish in earnest, I am quite frequently on the look out for Spanish subtitles for the movies I watch. However, finding them has generally been a chore until I came across a great site named open subtitles a while back. Besides having a large database of subtitles (in various languages), its biggest plus point is, as the title suggests, its openness, transparency and its foundation on "community". Other points of note:

• is generally ad-free.
• does not require registration.