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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Tasty Treat (flash)

Fun senseless violence (rated R).

Friday, August 29, 2008

YouTube in 1985 - collab (flash)

'Flash back' to how YouTube was in 1985 (rated PG).

Eagle Squadron Plane

Plane from an 'Eagle' Squadron near LAX. American and British pilots
flew these 1940-1942 for Britian in World War II.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Family Guy Chicken Fight (flash)

Peter fights the chicken again. Season 5: Episode 16 (rated R).

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

WB Water Tower

Warner Brothers water tower on the Warner lot in Burbank, CA.

Twitter With Full URLs

When twittering, or otherwise posting a URL online, putting the http://www prefix on the web address will automatically be recognized as a URL and be made a link by various systems (e.g., Google's spiders, twitter's web interface, tweetie, etc.).

Facebook, for instance, automatically recognizes a full URL and makes it a link almost everywhere, and includes the page description and image in messages and wall posts. You can customize the default image, title and description that Facebook sharing uses too.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Do Not Autoplay Video and Audio

Let the user start the video or audio on a page, or risk losing visitors. A notable exception is if the page in question exists solely to let people watch the video, like YouTube's pages for individual videos. The are other places to use autoplay well, but use it carefully. Taumata's twitter sums up the why:

If your site has music or video that autoplays (especially when it's way at the bottom or otherwise hidden) I will never come back.