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Warning: contains awesome shots of basset jowls flapping in the breeze.

YouTube implements a feature that featured in an xkcd comic last week. In response, current.com is looking into including velociraptor protection in our next patch release.

*FOUR* times the resolution of a regular YouTube video.

Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with!

Firefox extensions which hides the most blatantly idiotic YouTube comments. Favourite filter: Uses Firefox’s in-built dictionary to hide comments with too many spelling mistakes.

Google has a first stab at making video content searchable, across a selection of political speeches. Will be interesting to see how well this works.

The YouTubiest video ever, with helpful links to the original videos.

YouTube have launched their advertising model, and it doesn’t look too bad at all. Fifteen seconds into a clip, a little transparent-ish message pops up at the bottom of the video, which you can click on for more information (pausing your video), or close if you like. Ten seconds later, it fades away again.

Apple continue throwing out tasty morsels of iPhone announcements in the run-up to the launch next Friday — This time, a built-in YouTube browser. (Random thought: If Steve Jobs is trying to tell the developer community that Web Apps are a perfectly good way to develop for the iPhone, how come Apple have taken the perfectly good website that is YouTube and created a custom app for it?)

Greasemonkey script to remove all the crap from YouTube pages that isn’t the video.

Um… The BBC is going to put promotional clips on YouTube. Explain to me why this is “news”?

What videos on YouTube and Google Video are getting the most links from blogs. Alternatively, your guide to what the hell those strange noises are you’re hearing from neighbouring cubicles at work.

OSX app which downloads YouTube flash videos, converts them to MPEG4, and loads them onto your iPod Video.

Splendid-looking 6 minute preview of Aaron Sorkin’s new show “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”. This clip was pulled from YouTube by NBC lawyers last week, but someone kindly re-upped it. Hurry up and enjoy before it gets yanked again.

The Pointer Sisters’ greatest hit? Classic Sesame Street animation.