Here at The Lake I don't get enough intertubules to watch a video reliably. So I can't separate the DJ effect from the Slow Connection effect in this video, but it looks good:
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Sagan and Hawking's new music video
Posted on: September 29, 2009 8:53 AM, by Greg Laden
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Man, this is one fast-moving meme. I've seen this thing everywhere over the past week. It's a catchy song, though, and Carl Sagan is awesome, so I'm cool with that.
Posted by: Treppenwitz | September 29, 2009 9:02 AM
Yup, I watch it every its posted (and many times to boot!). Sagan was the reason I got into Science, so hearing him speak always makes me a little emotional. Plus, it’s amazing just how rhythmic his speech is and how it requires little editing to match that of a song.
Posted by: John | September 29, 2009 9:10 AM
Cool, but I still prefer MC Hawking
http://www.mchawking.com/mp3s/
Posted by: Rob | September 29, 2009 12:10 PM
That was awesome! :-)
Posted by: Stacy | September 29, 2009 12:37 PM
Since you are using Linux, here is a tip (that you may already know):
For (almost) any flash video that you are watching, look in the /tmp folder for a strangely named file. It is generally the last one (use ls -ltr). Once the video completes downloading, do not navigate away from the page (it will remove the tmp file). Instead copy that file in /tmp/ to somewhere else with another name and run it with mplayer. I use this method to keep flash videos for off-network play.
Note, the copy is not necessary to play it - you can play it directly, just don't rely on the Ubuntu tab completion as it expects certain extensions. The mplayer -identify will give you hints as to how to name the extension.
Posted by: Brent | September 29, 2009 3:50 PM