Manchester Pride exaggerates Parade crowd figures by 500%
250,000 do not watch the Parade as the organisers claim. The true figure is ‘tens of thousands’ and here is the proof.
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Flowplayer: a completely free Flash Video player for web pages
I think Flowplayer is the first decent Flash Video player that you can use on your website completely free of charge. Flash Video Player is also nice, but free only for non-commercial use. One issue I did have with Flowplayer, when I used the basic code for embedding, was that it seemed to ignore the … Flowplayer: a completely free Flash Video player for web pages
Dealing with email spam
It surprises me the number of friends who tell me that they get 200 spam emails a day or something similar. I get very few.
The Power of Nightmares
If you haven’t seen this fascinating three-part BBC documentary series, you can download it from the Internet Archive:
It explores ‘the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today.’ And it shows how politicians have used the terror threat to restore their power and authority in a disillusioned age.
It’s a brilliant use of archive film of all kinds, combined with interviews. Give it a look even if you don’t usually watch this kind of subject, because it’s interesting to see how Adam Curtis the producer combines such diverse visual material.
If you have problems playing MP4 files, just grab the free VideoLan player.
How submitting your video content to the BBC could cost you money
Quality content and creativity are valuable things. If you need proof, just look at the millions of pounds that businesses earn from back catalogues of music, films, TV shows and news footage.
Noah’s Arc
My American friend Bill told me about Noah’s Arc, a series that is on the Logo network over there. It’s about four black gay friends. We’d watched a couple of episodes and clips on the Logo website, but Bill doesn’t have the channel and I doubted the series would ever get a showing over here. … Noah’s Arc
Free Download Manager
I’m using Free Download Manager with RSS Bandit. Life is good. It’s the most painless method I’ve found for grabbing file enclosures from my favourite vlogs… RSS Bandit presents the enclosure link nice and clearly. Just right-click > copy link location (shortcut), Free Download Manager pops up, hit OK and the file is saved in … Free Download Manager
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