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James Roe
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Real Name: James Roe • View Member's Blog Listing
Channel: Kid Sift
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I help run VideoSift, break out some googlefu if you want to know more.
Member Since: 2006-02-20
Charter Subdomain: http://jamesroe.videosift.com
Email: James dot Roe at gmail dot com
Homepage: http://itineratesurfer.com
Favorite Sift: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=1401
Favorite Tags: politics, bush, music video, funny, global warming, japanese
AIM: sourbrew
Last Power Points used: 2008-03-28 • Available: now
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While we're on the subject, how does the thumbnail work? It seems like it's usually the image from the dead center of the vid. Is it possible to change the thumbnail? Why doesn't * findthumb ever work? How is findthumb suppoesed to work?

It would be nice if you could pause a video at the image you want to use and then invoke * findthumb to capture it. Is That possible?

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I dislike the image they put just for the youtube thumbnails, shameless.


written by dystopianfuturetoday  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Hey, is your channel 'for' kids or 'about' kids or both? Ant doesn't think my cat vid belongs on this channel. Your opinion?


written by dystopianfuturetoday  | 3 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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I wonder if you could fix this vid:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Intro-to-Idiocracy-From-the-Director-of-Office-Space
The russian audio makes it unwatchable.


written by fissionchips  | 4 months ago | CH
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JR,

I recommend you swap out this: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.videosift.com/video/Voltron-Gets-Served">http://www.videosift.com/video/Voltron-Gets-Served</a>

With a legit AdultSwim embed.

<embed src="http://www.adultswim.com/video/vplayer/index.html" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" FlashVars="id=e07619050348e71ef4a100161db28f04" allowFullScreen="true" width="425" height="350"></embed>


written by joedirt  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Good call. I'll have a chat with James Roe, who submitted the original post.


written by lucky760  | 4 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Thanks a lot James! And thanks for the advice!

In reply to this comment by James Roe:
Well, I just voted your first video out of the queue, so no more P. Beyond that really the best suggestion I have is to just stick with it. There is a certain 6th sense to sifting and if you stick around you will start to get a feeling for what the community craves.

Welcome to the sift you full fledged member you.



written by Bleedingsnowman  | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Yeah. That is right. Mycroft is Sherlock's older brother. Marked by his keen intellect and hampered by his extreme laziness.

He is one of my favorite characters.


written by MycroftHomlz  | 5 months 1 week ago | CH
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Would we be allowed to embed the video directly from their web site? Or is it no linking period?

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*discard

removed due to notice of copyright infringement.



written by twiddles  | 6 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Thanks James Lighten the browns eh? It's hard to get a true sepia look w/ something that's not a photograph
I want the color to look aged or true sepia as if all the colors were equally altered into sepia. Does that make sense?
I appreciate it James


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Lighten all the browns by 2 - 3 shades, swampy if you email me a higher quality version of that watch, i'll clean up the edges and make it a transparent png so it blends seemlessly with the background on the header.


written by swampgirl  | 8 months ago | CH
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This looks like a replacement for your dead video, but I wasn't sure - same run time, but different still images.


written by jonny  | 8 months ago | CH
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Can you please reinstate this video? Theres over 15 copies on YouTube.

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*discard

sorry but it appears to check out at least based on dates, gone



written by eric3579  | 8 months 1 week ago | CH
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I would e-mail you Mr.Roe, concerning any grievances I have with theo47, if I had any that I thought should be discussed au privae. I don't. I will continue to respond, as I see fit, to his observations and opinions, as he does to mine. His actions were an editorial without words. Like I have said before, passive-aggression is a coward's wallow.

You did get the gyst of my post? I posted a rant using some expletives, which was a simple bit of scathing commentary towards a couple of public figures, and theo47, wholesale censored it, with a discard. He did this as a response to the comments I made on one of his, sift talk posts, about teh dailyshow. Give me a reason, please, why I should not post it again, exactly as it was? (I already went and shit all over his post)I am simply doing as he his, which is exercising through votes and words, my pleasure or distaste. He does not seem to be up to the rules of dacor, or courtesy. You have read some of his retrograde streams? He acts as if a dissenting opinion is absurd and unwarranted, and ends up shitting his pants when called on his bullshit.

I suppose my action on his sift talk post, was a bit of his own medicine, and appears to outsiders as some kind of conflict.....GOOD! So....what have you decided about a resolution to this...situation? It is not anyone's way to ignore, though they may say it, it is seldom so. I say forget it, and let me do as I will, when ever he shows his ass, and I would hope that he, and all here, would continue to do the same for me as well...
choggie



In reply to this comment by James Roe:
Hey guys, we know that things can get animated in social sites, but we think this is more of an interpersonal issue than a site wide problem. Please email us your grievances at videosift@gmail.com concerning the thread located at: http://www.videosift.com/talk/Choggie-Has-Problems and we will try to reach some sort of mutually acceptable agreement / calming of tensions.

thanks,

your friendly Siftagement.



written by choggie  | 8 months 1 week ago | CH
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This is a serious necro-post/reply, but I had to do it.

It would be cheaper to move everyone away from the areas that will eventually be underwater than to reverse the inevitable change in sea level. Trying to stop global warming is like trying to stop the sun from shining. It's already happening, and is well on its way. The question is, how do we allocate our global resources to benefit as many people as possible. Pouring billions of dollars into fuel cell research will probably allow the U.S. to be driving mostly hydrogen powered cars by 2040. What could that same amount of money due towards eradicating AIDS. or providing world-wide micro-loans? or subsidizing local african and asian farmers as much as their US corporate counterparts. or 1/10000 as much in removing all deployed land mines from the planet. It's all about resource allocation, and if we don't figure that out, we're hosed no matter what we do in the long run.

BTW, I wouldn't rely on that map. I just zoomed into the area I grew up in - it's got the flood zones completely wrong.

Oh yeah - VS 3.0 rocks.


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"Is change automatically bad?"

well when it leads to the flooding expressed in this flood map yes. Play around with the change in water height up at the top.



written by jonny  | 8 months 1 week ago | CH
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This video died.

I found this one and I suppose it's the same, but I'm not sure because middle frame is different and I've not seen the original.

Is it?

In reply to this comment by James Roe:
via: http://www.chrisabraham.com/2006/04/playing_dominoe.php


written by looris  | 8 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hmmm, Im not sure why you cant see them. These are the 2 vids.

http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/197639
http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/198686

In reply to your comment:
?


written by eric3579  | 9 months ago | CH
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