World Cups 2018 and 2022 Just Awarded

[Josey Wales]

Wow, a lot of money being thrown around, that's for sure.

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

The world cup of what? Table tennis?

[chren21]

For those who care....

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2010/12/did-concacaf-betray-the-usa-2022-bid.html

[Cooby Snacks]

Renderings of the planned stadiums:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/soccer.2022.world.cup.stadiums.qatar/content.1.html

#10 looks like an Excitebike course.
#7 appears to be some sort of monument to female castration.

[mu03eng]

How did Qatar get a preview of Tron Legacy to steal these stadium designs????

[chren21]

Good stuff...

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2010/12/special-1-tv-christmas-special.html

[chren21]

If you follow the game at all this is again halarious.  Reinko, I think you will enjoy.

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2011/01/special1-tv-mid-table-madness.html

[chren21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxmswGOjjc&feature=player_embedded


seeing if I can figure out how to embed a video...

answer is no.  How do you get a video on a post?  And not the link, but the actual video?

<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object>

[Skatastrophy]

So you start out with your youtube url:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxmswGOjjc&feature=player_embedded

You need to change the url to look like this, I'm not sure why but that's the way it is:  http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc

Notice that it's youtube.com /v/ whatever code comes after the "v=" in the original url.

At that point you can put your new url inside of some [.flash][./flash] bb tags.  It's easiest to get these by hitting the icon that looks like above the text box you reply in.  If you don't see that icon you may be using the quick-reply box, just hit the preview button and you'll be on the right page.  If you still don't see the icon, then look more closely

So, hitting that icon gives you [.flash=200,200][./flash].  You can put the URL in there so it looks like [.flash=200,200] http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc[./flash], but the 200,200 in the tags means that the video will be 200 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall... which sucks and looks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc

Psh, no video is square and tiny.  I usually play around with the height and width by using the preview button so that the video is a bit bigger and not square.  I noticed this vid is widescreen, so I'd start with 800,450 (width,height) and that will probably get us real close to the native aspect ratio (because that's taking 16:9 and halving it to 8:4.5).

http://www.youtube.com/v/JSxmswGOjjc

If you quote my post you can see everything as I typed it and compare it to what showed up on the screen when I hit the post button.  Cheers.

[chren21]

your the best.  since your on a roll is there any way to download and save the video to my hard drive?

[Skatastrophy]

your the best.  since your on a roll is there any way to download and save the video to my hard drive?

That's a little easier.  

Go to http://www.downloader9.com/
Paste the url of a youtube video into the search bar thing and hit Download
There will be multiple versions of the video you can choose to download.  Choose the MP4 version.
When you get a pop-up, click Run

Ta-da!  Video will be in your downloads directory shortly!