Searchles - Video Feed Widget

Testing out a widget from the community news/video aggregator site Searchles.com - with an embedded video player that handles a video playlist. I think the best feature here is the ability to edit the items in the playlist, turning the whole thing into something of a video feed widget. For example - copy this embed code snippet and paste it into your site or blog - boom, you're hosting the same video playlist.

<embed src="http://tv.searchles.com/misc/video_player/main.swf" flashvars="xmlfile=http://www.searchles.com/channels/get_xml/1290" quality="high" bgcolor="#869ca7" width="'450'" height="'366'" name="main" align="middle" play="true" loop="false" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

Now the cool part - next time BarelyPolitical.com debuts a political music video (Romney Girls, any day now?) I update the playlist and you're the first blog on the block with the latest from the folks who brought you "Crush On Obama."

APEC Presents: Aussie TV Comedy Group "The Chaser"

Comedians are now jumping onto the bandwagon of hilarity that was formerly the province of top Western government officials (Bush referring to APEC as OPEC, calling the Australians Austrians, and almost walking off the stage, literally). This year an Aussie comedy group got through two checkpoints dressed as Osama Bin Laden, bearing ID cards clearly labelled with the word "JOKE" - catapulting them from "a bunch of comedians known only to their Australian viewers and the many politicians they've left red-faced (link)" to a comedy stunt team known around the world.

"A prank by a TV comedy crew has turned into an international incident and it could end up making a laughing stock of the entire [APEC] security machine," was part of the ABC News commentary, just one of the innumerable broadcasts relaying the stunt over the last several days on all manner of media. "$160 million was spent to keep dignitaries safe, and a convoy of actors got within yards of President Bush's hotel."

The story was the fourth-most read article on the BBC website, which carried the headline, "Sydney 'ring of steel' breached."

and this additional high security comedy: Too funny...