Added a youtube playlist to the sidebar. It just has one video in it right now: Evelyn Glennie’s TED talk which I used to have embedded in there direct from the TED site. It never really embedded right, but I kinda liked how it looked in there provided the screen resolution was set to whatever. The youtube embed adjusts along with the resolution:

Here the TED version is an obvious win, but it’s pretty zoomed in. What happens the smaller you make it:

I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out. I needed the module to be 300 px across to match the width of the album covers and that mattered more than getting all the frame in there. Everything else distorted the video itself withing the frame. (I didn’t think of screencapping my attempts when I was originally working on this, here is the page with the original code; here is one with my code.) I kept it like that for so long cause I was proud of my half-solution to the resizing problem, because it really seemed like that thing did not want to be resized. If anyone can figure it out I’m still curious. This started as a design issue, but I should really learn more about code in general.

Now that I’ve changed it, I kinda like that the TED slogan isn’t there anymore. But the slight border was nice and I’d like to change the thumbnail. I think there might be a way to change this within the youtube code. I’m going to keep messing with it. And I keep messing with the links, I dunno. Some links I took off if I’m following them through blogger, or twitter. It’s the ones I’ve subscribed directly to the RSS or sites I don’t want to forget. Every time I try to split up the links into more categories it causes a glitch that erases the underlining on the category name, which is awful, just awful! I know. This is all ridiculous. Also I’m keeping the Japan Society donation thing, which is not ridiculous, even though donating to the Red Cross at this point may accidentally be helping Americans hit by tornadoes and such, which you would never do otherwise, obviously. Man, I joke about my record collection and what not being a disaster, but at least it’s only scattered around this room and not over several square miles and/or the bottom of the ocean. Maybe it would be a huge relief losing the ability to obsess endlessly about it. Hopefully it never comes to that.

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