I am not a YouTube junkie. In general I find
it full of children trying to embarrass themselves with a video camera. Like
most of the “social networking” craze on the net, it proves to me again and again
the lower depths that man kind can fall to. That said, there are occasional
moments of brilliance that YouTube is used to distribute.
One such moment of brilliance is CodeMonkey by Jonathan
Coulton, with video by “spiffworld”. This is a mechanimation done using
World of Warcraft, of which I am thoroughly addicted, and the song is absolutely brilliant!
I was thrilled the other day when my friend Jay
“The Wall” Leask of DallasStarsPodcast.com sent me this link. I was hooked
instantly and wanted to download the video to my iPod in order to take it to work
and share with co-workers.
SCREECH!
That’s when I realized that YouTube provides no ability for you to download their
videos! How can this be? The iPod is taking over the world, I could not
be the first person to have this problem. So, time to check with the mighty
oracle Google. Sure enough, one of the top links was from LifeHacker.com
(great blog, go subscribe) and they had a GreaseMonkey script (for Firefox) but
I’m an IE7 guy. Did another search and there was my answer : Vixy.net
Vixy is the solution to exactly this problem. It takes a YouTube
watch URL and then downloads, transcodes and offers you an iPod (or PSP, Zune, AVI,
etc) download. Perfect!
I promise, this is a rare intermission from my normally technical content, but this
song deserves sharing.
And so without further ado, here is CodeMonkey :
Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud