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YouTube Now in Widescreen with 720p Support!

YouTube is finally getting more widescreen friendly, and thus, more HD friendly.

About a year ago, they added 16:9 support, meaning if your video was widescreen, it would automatically add black bars into its then native 4:3 standard screen. Now they’ve made YouTube videos play in a native, wider 16:9 frame altogether.

 

Also, the new resolution is wider.  It used to be 425×320, and now it’s at 640×360, which YouTube says is supposed to reflect the higher quality videos that have now surfaced.

This is great, as it was long overdue. Many of the other providers, like Google Video, Vimeo (which has HD support, btw), and blip.tv were all in native 16:9 and YouTube was still stuck in 4:3. I think it’s because YouTube had such a huge amount of old school users that “broadcasted” themselves in 4:3 that the transition to widescreen had to be a bit gradual.

It gets better, though. To top it off, Belal gave me the heads up that YouTube now supports 720p! For those of you wondering what 720p is Read more »

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IN URDU!!!

AMAZING!!!! THANK YOU NAVEED HUSAIN!!!1

Real Life Version of Photoshop

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MuBarack! My Thoughts On The Election of Obama

Barack Mubarack! Yes we did! BarackAllahu feekum! He took it! Congratulations Hussein Bhai! As the Gmail status messages ring in the cheers, here’s some thoughts on what the Obama victory means to me.

 

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Standard Operating Procedure – New Documentary on Abu Ghraib

Did you know that if you search the top rated documentaries of all time at the Internet Movie Database, you’ll find that the majority of those listed in the past five or six years are about the Iraq war or the blunders of the US and its foreign activities? That’s something of interest, that there’s so much push from this subset of filmmakers, the documentary makers, to inform the masses about the mistakes our country has made. Since these mistakes directly affects us Muslims, particularly those in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and (indirectly) here in the US, it would bring us benefit for us to get informed on the topics that have made it to the top rated lists.

So with that in mind, has anybody seen or know anything about this film on the Abu Ghuraib scandals, Standard Operating Procedure? It looks interesting, and reminds me of the excellent must see documentary, Road To Guantanamo.It’s gotten pretty good reviews, like the 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and four starts from Roger Ebert. People who gave positive reviews said director Errol Morris did a good job of taking the scandal and turning it into an emotional documentary, focusing on the story through the accounts of former soldiers by way of interviews. However there’s some interesting rebuttal against the documentary I found on amazon.com’s DVD listing for the film written by a former US solider.

The self-proclaimed soldier criticized Morris because the film only gives the “tip of the iceberg” on this issue, namely because the soldiers are given the most attention and, thus, the most scrutiny. The soldier argues, instead, that Read more »