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Youtube has started irking me lately -- as they add more HD-ish videos, when they offer an array of size choices for people to embded one on their site, they've made it so that the smallest option is about 560 pixels across. Many blogs (including this one) find 500 to be a more pleasant default column size, so the stupid things won't fit.

However, it's generally pretty easy to change the size of a Youtube video, but there's a little bit of annoying math and some fiddly search and replace you have to do to get it right. So I made a new simple gadget off of my tools page, a Youtube Resizer

youtube resizer
embed code:
target width:

You just copy and paste in the Youtube embed code, set it to what width you want, and then copy and paste the result. Extremely non-rocket-sciency but it makes my blogging life a bit better.

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i think of my nipples as an umlaut that makes my beer gut more sophisticated

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One of the things I like best about Al Jazeera English? No fucking comments section.

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I know my head isn't totally into CSS when I try to type foo="bar" type stuff as CSS attributes, not foo:bar;