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This weekend we saw Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at the Fox Bay Cinema Grill.

It was a great movie, I laughed and laughed and laughed… If you like Wallace & Gromit, you’ll love it. It’s got the two-levels of comedy thing going on, where kids can enjoy it, but there’s enough there for the adults as well.

I don’t think I liked the Fox Bay Cinema Grill as much as I liked the Rosebud, probably due to their not being any comfy couches, it was all sit-at-a-table style seating. My other complaint was that there were probably over 100 middle school aged kids there. I don’t know if it was a school thing or what. (It was a Saturday night 8:00 PM showing.) The early teens set made things just a bit loud an chaotic, but besides that, it was pretty nice…

I just mentioned the whole video iPod idea last week, right?

I mean, everyone is a talking about the video iPod, right?

There are nearly 1000 videoblogs listed in mefeedia’s directory…

The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group has over 1400 members…

We’ve got Ourmedia, blip.tv, and others… We’ve got vlogdir, vlogmap, and others…

So what does it all mean? Maybe nothing… Maybe something…. For all those people who keep asking me “What’s next?” I’d like to point out that this is probably it. (Time will tell!)

Oh yeah, one more thing… If you get a video iPod, please subscribe to tinkernet with iTunes, so the videoblog posts go to your iPod and you can watch it. I mean, since I can’t enjoy my own content on an iPod, someone else might as well… (That is, assuming it all works that way, same as with “audio” podcasts…)

Gah! Today is October 12th, 2005 and I just found out about the nomination, and the voting closes today…

Help me out, vote for tinkernet at mkeonline. This is a limited time offer. Expires today. Thank you, and Good Day Sir!

You remember last year don’t you? My costume idea was the iPod Photo. At least one person thought it was cool…

Well, this year I feel completely justified in suggesting you take last year’s costume, rip it in half to make it much smaller, and paint it black. When I say “last year’s costume” I am of course referring to the iPod Photo costume you made, just like Mr. deusx… You will then be teh cool with your iPod nano costume. How 2005 of you! (Failing that, make it look like my Rio 500 and you can party like it’s 1999!)

We need video playlists… Ok, to be more specific, we need video players that support playlists…

I first implemented XSPF on tinkernet because it was simple, and I like what XSPF is, and can do, and I needed to test the code mentioned here. Of course without a video player that can handle XSPF, what’s the point? Well, it looks like VLC will support XSPF soon, so that’s good… (Oh, drop by the forum and leave a post asking for support if you want. )

In the meantime, I’ve been playing with SMIL just a bit, really just using Michael Sullivan’s implementation as an example. So here is what I’ve got:

Over on tinkernet, in the sidebar, is a link to the SMIL file, which should cause your browser to download the SMIL file and open it using QuickTime Player. Of course you need to have QuickTime installed, and your browser configured, blah, blah, blah… But once that’s done, you should see what we see above. QuickTime Player all set to play all the videos in the ‘playlist’ with a little menu to jump between the videos. (I guess this is QuickTime-specific SMIL, but I’m a SMIL newbie, so I’m not 100% sure what the outcome of that really is…)

Anyway, I think this is exciting, and we should thank Lucas Gonze for the XSPF stuff, and hope that others (especially software developers) see the value in playlists…