Every now and then you find something that just has to be shared…
“I am a sassy and opinionated person who is a hopeless romantic @ heart. I am 90 percent optimist 10 percent realist. I would do anything for my friends or family. I am looking for some that is caring and that kikes to have fun but knows when to be serious.”
Hoo boy.
I did it for the lulz.
Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do, no where to go, oh, I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my brain
Oh no, oh, oh, oh, oh
Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do, no where to go, oh, I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me on a plane
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my brain
Oh no, oh, oh, oh, oh
Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do, no where to go, oh, I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair, get me to the show
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go loco
I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my toes
Oh no, oh, oh, oh, oh
Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do, no where to go, oh I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair, get me to the show
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go loco
I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my toes
Oh no, oh, oh, oh, oh
Bamp bamp, ba bamp, ba bamp bamp, ba bamp, I wanna be sedated
Bamp bamp, ba bamp, ba bamp bamp, ba bamp, I wanna be sedated
Bamp bamp, ba bamp, ba bamp bamp, ba bamp, I wanna be sedated
Bamp bamp, ba bamp, ba bamp bamp, ba bamp, I wanna be sedated
So… XKCD posted this comic a few days ago:
And today, when I tried replying to a comment on YouTube, I couldn’t. Nothing happened. I checked Firefox’s javascript errors and saw this:
Error: commentPreviewEnabled is not defined
Source File: http://s.ytimg.com/yt/js/base_all_with_bidi-vfl58055.js
Line: 1244
So I just typed, in my address bar:
javascript:commentPreviewEnabled=true;void(0);
and lo and behold, this appears when I click “reply”!
Notice “Audio Preview”? Yeah, that’s a new one… Now, this made me want to investigate that Javascript file mentioned in the error I got. I saw it mentioned the file http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/textreader-vfl58051.swf, so I downloaded it and ran it through an SWF decompiler to get a look at the code. I saw this, in a function package named “com.google.youtube.texttospeech.TextToSpeech”:
flash.external.ExternalInterface.addCallback(”speakText”, _loc2, _loc2.speakText);
I know it doesn’t look like much to the untrained eye, but basically it’s making a function called “speakText” available to Javascript.
In other words… YouTube read the XKCD comic about audio previews of comments… and actually decided to implement that feature.
Maybe it’s a joke. Maybe I caught something I wasn’t supposed to see. But it’s funny as hell 
of course I had to make a YouTube video about it…
*update*
Yep, they implemented it!
I received this e-mail from the woman who runs this batshit insane website:
Subject: [XXXXXX] Sarah Palin To Be Dropped From McCain Ticket
From: Ruth Calabria <ruthcalabria2@matrix-evolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:01:18 -0400
To: XXXXXXDear Friends,
The guns on the conviction of the sinner, Senator Barack Obama, are about to be silenced. Sarah Palin has done her job of connecting with the everyday people who will make the difference in the election. She has managed to make the Republicans, the party of, by and for the ruling class, the hope of the people in the margin, the smarter evangelicals who might have voted for Obama, the moms who struggle so hard to raise their kids in this mom unfriendly environment, the moose hunters and those Hillary women who can’t distinguish their bras from their pocketbooks.
Palin has also managed to distract us all from the consequences of the hundred billion dollar bank bailout necessitated by the blind greed of Republican mortgage scammers, a grand heist on all who work for a living whose paychecks will be cut in half by the stupendous inflation this will bring about. Stocks, mostly owned by the rich, go up; and the real income of the workers and middle class goes down. This effective transfer of wealth from worker to ruling class is a continuation of the broader capitalist Republican manipulations that have caused worker incomes to drop by 2% in the last decade while those in the top tier went up by 200%.
McCain’s conservative handlers have planned from the beginning to have Sarah leave the scene, once her job was finished, along with the baggage of her Trooper-gate conniving and her obvious lack of qualifications for the presidency. We suspect her coming exit to have been intelligently designed from the start in its reeking of our situation down here in Texas where my fundamentalist mother still tries to control me, a 67 year old woman, from the grave by having left me an inheritance totally controlled by my castrated conservative brother, a lawyer who made it clear immediately after my mother’s death that there’s no way I would ever see a penny of the money left me unless I left my evolutionist professor husband of 35 years who rescued me from this moron, child abusing, family I had the misfortune to be born into. And if I know these scheming conservative game players correctly, Palin’s exit will be blamed on something Michelle Obama said about Christmas or some equally absurd and vicious zinger.
The communists used to say that the capitalists would sell them the rope they needed to hang them. This has proved to be unnecessary. Instead we have seen our greedy pig ruling class hang themselves with their mortgage scam that backfired, and hang all of us in the process. To highlight their lunatic decadence and stupidity, we note the dribbling remarks of an upper class jerk by the name of Wayne Angel, a retired Fed Board member who owns his own seven homes and blames the economic meltdown on unions demanding more money for the workers! Did we really hear him say that!? Such callousness and the fact that he truly believes it (!) borders on a criminality that calls for the forced feeding of cake to Marie Antoinette’s severed head. This bailout grand theft, soft peddled and hidden by media shills whose employment is at the discretion of said ruling class, the same crew of peppy liars who helped sell the War in Iraq that has been used as an excuse for the taking away of o ur freedom, fairness and justice in America, must be reversed. The upper class must go!
But rather than have the rerun of the French Revolution that these rich pigs so richly deserve, it is much easier to throw them out of power by electing Barack Obama, who, whatever his shortcomings, is a hell of a lot smarter and a hell of a lot more caring than these ruling class wolves and their loathsome surrogate in sheep’s clothing, the truly dippy, smiling lunatic, John McCain, who however he may come off in well edited sound bites on TV, looks in person like he would have trouble finding his way to the men’s room.
Don’t be fooled by kindly Uncle John. Be scared on Election Day, scared enough to make sure you go out and vote. Hidden in briefly appearing stories on the net are the new rules for domestic spying and for FBI surveillance and harassment without due cause, also known as, welcome to the police state. The Republicans are as treacherous in their plans for the coming Inquisition as they are in consistently making black out to be white in presidential campaigning.
And while we are at it, let’s put the blame for the personal unhappiness and heartache of young people where it belongs to make sure they get out and vote. It’s not hard to understand. First turn off Dr. Phil, a castrated propagandist who has enough money to buy a trophy wife to cover up the fact that his fast talking is as cross wired as his face is goofy. The problem of the breakdown of love and happiness in America is not a mental problem.
Rule #1: The ruling class has the power to do whatever they want to do.
Rule #2: What they and their managers want to do is screw all the women, which they do in the workplace and in the schools in various ways.
Rule #3: If you want to keep your job or get an A on that term paper, honey, pull up your skirt, as happens as often as folks drink coffee in the morning.
Rule #4: Every woman comes to know these rules.
Rule #5: No woman talks about them.
Today’s women are a harem for the ruling class. The owners and bosses and the worst teachers and priests get to toy with the women (and with the kids) while the men who fall in love with the women are DENIED ACCESS, crowded out by the creepy lechers whose taking advantage insults the women and destroys the self respect and emotional integrity necessary for successful courtship and love, with the problem made all the worse with the cockeyed morality spouted on corporate run TV. And men being made obedient fools out of by bosses, also as common as morning coffee, doesn’t improve their attractiveness to women. It’s time for a revolution and electing Obama is the first step. We make the case for what we say, as taboo as these truths are in an America where lies rule by swift condemnation of truth tellers as evil or crazy, on www.matrix-evolutions.com where we use a compelling scientific argument based on a mathemat ical understanding of evolution and information.
Mrs. Ruth and Dr. Peter V. Calabria
Figured I’d leave the name/email in since it’s on their site.
