Scott Yang's Playground

Via Simon, three videos every church website should have. It just makes so much sense. Which one do you prefer, if you are trying to decide whether you want to visit a church, if you are new to the region? Pages after pages of text trying to explain who we are, theological brief, what we [...]

Via Google Blog, The Domino Effect with lots of Diet Coke, Mentos and way too much time. Awesome video. The only annoying bit is that two guys in lab coat walking around making sure everything is smooth running.

YouTube: White & Nerdy (Weird Al) — this new video is just funny, and even got a Wikipedia entry for it. Here’s the lyrics. Well, I gotta say I am glad that I am not white nor nerdy :) My other favourite Weird Al MTV is Saga Begins. Saw it 6 years ago, and you [...]

Mark Pilgrim wrote a bash script to batch-encode videosto H264/AAC for iPod under Linux, utilising other open source applications like ffmpeg and mplayer. One thing I liked about the article is, after listing the prerequisites, Mark wrote “Please don.t ask me for help installing these prerequisites. Consider it a character-building exercise.” Maybe I’ll quote that [...]

Well. Not the kind of birds with two flipping wings. In fact it has a set of propellors, weight almost 5 tons, and made loud “woo woo woo” sound when they fly passed our office building at around 2:30pm in the afternoon. They were in fact UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, and I was fortunately enough to [...]

Last night I have posted my very first flash video on the web — and it was Anna sitting there watching, her own video for 2 minutes (which probably would only interest the parents and grand-parents). Anna’s video aside, I was also having fun figuring out getting that video online. There are many ways putting [...]

I love Google Video Search — great way to waste your evening and plenty of bandwidth. However, I hate to watch video on a Flash player embeded inside a web browser window. I also hate to download the same video again and again every time I want to watch it. So yesterday evening I hacked this [...]