The Cynic Gazette » spinal tap http://www.cynicgazette.com Web Design, Skepticism, Photography and Social Comment Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The BBC Rules, YouTube can suck it! http://www.cynicgazette.com/2008/04/02/the-bbc-rules-youtube-can-suck-it/ http://www.cynicgazette.com/2008/04/02/the-bbc-rules-youtube-can-suck-it/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:40:13 +0000 Joisey Mike http://www.cynicgazette.com/?p=5 I’m not a man who’s easily impressed. Well, I am a man who is easily impressed, but not “Wow! A blue car!” easily impressed. But today, the secondteenth day of the fourth month of the 1,208th year since the Europeans decided to start a calendar 800 years in the past (makes sense; think about it), the British have impressed me.

Flip on any video on YouTube. Turn up the volume. Note that YouTube’s volume slider isn’t numeric.

The BBC’s is. And their amps go to eleven. Check out Robin Williams taking over a BBC America chat show when they were having technical difficulties, and turn the volume up. To eleven. Sweet sweet eleven.

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