Dude Arrested For Bad YouTube Video

You have to hand it to police messageboard Domelights. They went and got a guy arrested for his YouTube video where he celebrated the deaths of cops.

One may wonder how Andre Moore could be charged with aggravated assault for a YouTube video, but no matter. Imagine a world where the police lock up people for making stupid YouTube videos. God, it would be a wonderful place.

As I’ve said before, we should look to look into all possible penalties — arrest, civil forfeiture, waterboarding — for making bad YouTube videos.

Update: The Inquirer has more.

Man arrested for anti-cop YouTube clip [Daily News]

Ladies And Gentlemen, Your 2007 Philadelphia Phillies Fans

Apparently this is the “Owens” family celebrating Aaron Rowand’s game-winning homer in the eighth inning last night. Truly, we are the best fans in sports.

The Owens kids at the Phillies game (7/24/07) [YouTube]
Rowand’s homer lifts Phils to win [Inquirer]
Thanks, RJ

Yeah, I Have No Idea

Philaedlphia [YouTube]
Thanks, Brad

Hello. Salut. I’m Running For City Council.

I don’t really know if any of these young City Council upstarts have a shot to defeat any of the incumbents, but they sure are making entertaining YouTube ads.

Oddly enough, there used to be quality constituent services at 714 South Street, but then they went out and shut down Club Kama Sutra!

There’s also this ad from Damon Roberts, where his wife says he’s running for Council “because the children need something to do.” Now all we need to do is get a candidate to do the Numa Numa dance.

Update, 2:06 p.m.: Comment from charlesdog12 on Young Philly Politics:

Who filmed these clips on Youtube? They are really good. You can see that someone is a fan of the French New Wave, with jump cuts and the whole nine yards.

French New Wave! It’s that good.

The Anastasio Team [YouTube]

Piano-Playing Kitty Wows YouTubers, Journalists

When the Inquirer laid off workers last year, many wondered if the paper would still have the resources to cover the stories that you, Joe Average Reader, need to know about the area.

The answer, of course, is a resounding yes. Today’s Inquirer contains a (freelance) column about Nora, the Philadelphia cat who plays the piano. The kitty has been viewed more than 600,000 times in three weeks, has spawned countless imitators and has “received 21 YouTube honors, including February’s third-most-viewed pets and animals video.”

And, uh, she’s a prodigy or something:

“She really has the personality of a great composer,” Alexander said of Nora. “Maybe she’s Beethoven. She puts her ear towards the piano, doesn’t get along with the other cats, and definitely likes to be in the spotlight.”

Don’t believe the hype? See for yourself.

Fortunately, the local TV stations have smelled soft news and — like a shark going for blood — have moved into the water, as I’ve already seen promos for a story on Nora on at least one local TV station so far.

Yep. Covering the city, indeed.

Piano-playing cat is YouTube star [Inquirer]

And So It Begins…

Sometime over the weekend, YouTube unleashed a bunch of content-deleting zombies onto the website and began deleting perfectly normal fair usages of video clips. Mainly, content from Comedy Central and the NFL seems to have been deleted, with clips of other sports probably on the way next.

So, weep, Internet public, as you can no longer view this kick by David Akers’ hit the post loudly and go in, and you will have to get that moment squarely from memory.

For now, all we can do is look to the future and find a new video sharing site with owners without such deep pockets.

Derailing The Gravy Train [Blinq]
Sept. 11: Eagles Doink Their Way To Victory

Leftovers: Then Again, It Was Only Tampa

• You’ll be happy to know that, after his 62-yard game winner yesterday, Tampa’s mayor proclaimed yesterday Matt Bryant Day in honor of the Bucs kicker. Just wait. If an Eagles kicker ever hits a 65-yarder, I bet he’ll get a whole week in his honor. [Bucs Report]

• New Temple (and ex-Penn) coach Fran Dunphy has his players doing yoga in preseason, in addition to joining in himself in the stretching. Oh, now that’s a scene we all need to see. [CSTV Slog]

• Here’s some kickass YouTube footage of ‘XPN’s Top 10 artists of all time. The list, unfortunately, is about as predictable as you expected it to be. [All About The Music via Phillyist]

• Our city: A paucity of green roofs. Oh, come on, you’re not surprised. [The Illadelph]

This Is So Meta It Hurts

So here’s NBC 10’s report on the sale of YouTube… that they posted to YouTube! Whoa. Meta. So meta. I just can’t wait for their report on the eventual sale of Facebook done on a Facebook profile.

Chad Hurley’s Mom Talks About YouTube Buy Out [YouTube]

‘Inquirer’ Gets To Heart Of YouTube Purchase

If you hadn’t heard, yesterday Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars. (And they said you couldn’t base a business on copyright infringement.) Blinq’s Dan Rubin looks into the deal, and brings up the most important part of the whole deal, in fact, the aspect of the deal that has Wall Street buzzing today:

Will Philadelphia Will Do and the 700 Level Get to post clips of stupid local TV news tricks and Lito Sheppard’s great return?

Yeah, I was wondering what this deal meant for me, too. (Not really.) Fortunately, he then leaves it to Mark Cuban to sift though rest of the complexity of the deal. Glad to see that’s all settled.

GooTube & Yougle [Blinq]

It’s Gotta Be The Glasses

Aww, our little Liz Spikol is hitting the big time! And by “big time,” I mean “YouTube.” (Which is pretty much the big time nowadays.) Her new YouTube video, From depression to desperation, was briefly on the first page of the top-rated section today.

And, aside from the video, what do the people heart about Liz? Why, I can’t put my finger on it…

“hip glasses are my choice (but you can’t look bad)” — DaleATL2

“A brave woman who looks lovely both in all her glasses (the smart ones line up with your eyebrows in a nice way)” — Freshette

“i like the hip glasses :)” — itsatiffanything

“and both of the glasses are fantastic too!” — LilySina

“I like the glasses in your Director icon pic.” — Latinlabel

“Lastly Hip or smart they [the glasses] both = Sexy” — ctitchen

For the record… The boring glasses: Jill Stewart. The more exciting ones: Candies.

New video: From depression to desperation [The Trouble With Spikol]