Welcome our newest gold star, notarobot!

He IS Canadian!

If you check his sifts you will find a variety of provocative subjects.

And don't forget to visit his PQ . . .

Some requests to those who post content from Comedy Central - especially 'popular' clips like those featured on The Daily Show & The Colbert Report:

1) Comedy Central is *blocked. Until vids submitted from Comedy Central are automatically tagged with the *blocked invocation, please take the 0.5 seconds and do it yourself.

2) Please post the original date of broadcast in the description. This makes it easier for Canucks to search and find content for The Daily Show (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes) or The Colbert Report (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/full-episodes/)

3) If a fellow Canadian does seek out and watch the clip in question, take an additional 3 seconds and post the link in a comment so others can bask in its visual glory.

Thanks =)

Check out http://www.tusaalanga.ca/

Now even YOU can learn Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit ) online - complete with soundfiles teaching you how to pronounce words. Give it a try, and let me know what you think.

Throbbin's been with the sift almost 2 years now and finally got his gold star (well, his second gold star really, but that's not important). When he's not starting polls on which fabric softener is the best, this urban inuk posts some damn fine videos and writes great comments. His pqueue igloo has gotten quite full, so head on over there and free some of them!

Congrats to this quality Canadian sifter!
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Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks! There's no country I'd rather call home

Show love to KimzSendai! http://www.videosift.com/video/Happy-Canada-Day-1

"It is pretty much exactly what law enforcement has been demanding and privacy groups have been fearing. It represents a reneging of a commitment from the previous Public Safety Minister on court oversight and will embed broad new surveillance capabilities in the Canadian Internet." Law Professor Michael Geist

Michael Geist's blog with some context and a good history of this legislation's progression

The CBC's take on it

The Globe and Mail's view

I just figured we could nail down the names of some much needed channels. I think it would be interesting if we all named our wants. Everyone is so different and we all post diverse stuff.

What have you noticed missing?

Len has reached gold right after me, showing what a good example I´ve set.
Len likes Toys and Star Wars, and Star Wars Toys.
Len has never seen the 2G1C video, which we should not allow to continue, rickrolling him into watching it asap.
Len is much worried about the Texas Flunking Garbage Patch.

Now you may all go to his pqueue and be merry with it!

(also check out his site, he has been busy painting AND poeting:
http://www3.telus.net/Nickel/ )

Or does the sift community completely lack a sense of humour?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Phil-the-Alien-Trailer

The National Film Board of Canada just released its entire archive of 700+ films online for free:

http://www.nfb.ca/explore-by/title/

And they're embeddable!

Some of my favourites are already sifted:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Cat-Came-Back-1
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Big-Snit-classic-Canadian-animation

...but there are many many more that are worthy of adding.

Happy Boxing Day, British sifters. C'mon, what is it really? Out with it!

That is all.

So, hey. Anyone up for venting a little on the current situation in parliament?

Personally, I'd have preferred that it would not have come to a coalition, but I can respect the reasons for it having come to pass. And, given Harper's reaction, completely warrented.

We do not vote for Prime Minister in Canada. We do not vote directly for the ruling party. We vote for the person we think is going to do best in our riding. The CPC won a minority government because they constituted 38%(?) of those votes, out of four major parties. If the liberals and NDP wish to form a coalition government with the help of the Bloc, they are in their right to do so as they have ALSO been voted in, and together represent a majority over that 38%. They represent a broader fraction of the Canadian vote than the CPC, together. Harper knows all this, he knows that the message he's trying to sell Canadians about this being 'un-democratic' is completely false, and yet that, out of all the other arguments he could use to defend his government, is what he is going with.

The scripted narrative coming out of the CPC is, in my opinion, inexcusibly divisive. Demonizing Quebec to try to rally the rest of their party behind them is incredibly scummy - and what about the conservatives that finally managed to make gains in Quebec? What are they thinking?

I think the Bloc-Liberal-NDP should have backed down on no-confidence after the antagonizing funding cuts were rescinded, with the promimse to hold CPC's feet to the fire should their petulant behaviour have continued. But here we are.


What do you think?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/03/harper-address.html

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-ca&tab=&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:d8df0a9b-8864-46ca-9008-34d11e47d098&showPlaylist=&from=inline&fg=gtlv2

We're doomed. Retardation of the younger members of our society is complete.

No longer can we complain of stupid Americans, as our youth have now brought us low.

I'd just like to remind everyone that today is the 90th anniversary of signing of the armistice that ended World War I.

Please, take two minutes of silence today, to remember and honour those who have sacrificed for that which we all enjoy.

Lest we forget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_day

http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados


Do you know Calvados? You probably do, because he's been here since the start, and has sifted the hard road all the way to diamond as witnessed by...

http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados/pqueued

We all like to brag about the quality of videos on VideoSift, but if you've ever tried sticking to videos that didn't have the dubious appeal of nutshots, pop comedy, or inflammatory grenades of political rhetoric, you'd quickly discover that you'd have a bloated PQ, too.

So thank you Calvados for bearing that cross for us!

From his profile page...

Single white male, straight, 30; Canadian, Quebecker, Montrealer; reservist infantryman, civilian air pilot, university student. Likes: motorcycle riding, pints at the pub, being late to school. Dislikes: climate change, peak oil, running out of milk.

For great justice! I was kind of there, but I was also kind of cooking. As mentioned earlier, tonight was the great Vancouver Siftup. I got to show off why I am the moderator of *cooking around these parts. I'll snip the rest of the pics, but... I really want to show everybody this one:

“Scallop Wrapped Bacon”
Nova Scotia Scallops, Artisanal Oyama Dry Cured Bacon, Grilled BC Matsutake Mushroom, Oven Cured Butternut Squash Chip

Yes, it may not look like much, but it was but one of twelve courses that I created for the Vancouver sift up.


That was a lot of work, let me tell you. Definitely the most elaborate tasting menu I've ever put together. Not everything turned out exactly according to plan, but lots of things did. I feel like I need to sleep for 3 days now.

It was great to meet Lucky, Charms, Zifnab and Fissionchips. It was dissapointing that Fedquip didn't make it, but maybe next time.

I want to go on at length about what worked, what didn't work, why I made some of the choices that I did for the menu, what I was happy with, what I felt needed improvement, etc etc etc.... but I'm too tired right now.

I will have to post more later.

Thanks for coming out!

When you download music or text from the web, you may be innocently breaking the law. Jim Lebans, a producer with CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, looks at the tangled world of intellectual property and how the digital age is challenging ideas about who owns our culture.

Source, including a link to the podcast itself.

Do you ever feel like you've been cheated?

The Dark Lord of the Sift, the one and only Darth Zifnab, just got his Bronze Crown, so now the tale can at last be told.

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Another long-time member hit a milestone today, my sifting comrades. It's atara, and she's been here for just about two years, her date of membership being Oct 18, 2006. Yet just like Brother BoneyD, I know very little about her, beyond the fact that she's Canadian a dual-citizenship American/Canadian (I hope she's on every one of our "watch" lists), and that she votes for many of my videos. Therefore I've created several possible identities for her, just because I have nothing better to do.

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