1. The Challenge of the New Creationism

Comment #188705 by spoox on June 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Oh for the love of (whatever), can someone provide a way for downloading these videos for offline viewing?

I've tried saving the streams with VLC, but it won't record anything sensible unless I use transcoding, and even then I can only record the audio. (If you choose "raw" as output format, it does save something, although there's no way of playing it back)

I've tried "HiDownload" alsoo, but it didn't correctly re-assemble the file after download so you end up with a useless temporary file.

In lolcat spirit: HALP!

2. Discussion between Richard Dawkins and Paula Kirby

Comment #157157 by spoox on April 8, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Direct links to the .FLV video files since I saw people mentioning problems with the embedded/Flash player. Can be downloaded and played locally using a Flash player or using any random player if you have the FLV directshow filter installed (Windows):

http://www.library.uhi.ac.uk/dawkins/dawkins intro.flv
http://www.library.uhi.ac.uk/dawkins/dawkins talk.flv
http://www.library.uhi.ac.uk/dawkins/discussion_part1.flv
http://www.library.uhi.ac.uk/dawkins/discussion_part2.flv

Files are appx 25MB, 185MB, 82MB, 161MB.

3. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152381 by spoox on March 30, 2008 at 9:59 pm

I hope you all (#38, #40, #42, #50) are very aware of that Geert Wilders DID in the past suggest banning the Quran in the Netherlands.

E.g.:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FAEC4703-83E2-44DA-9DA4-1A7702C354C1.htm

"A Dutch member of parliament has called for the Quran to be banned in the Netherlands, describing it as a "fascist book" which calls on people to kill non-believers and rape women."

Simply do a Google search for "wilders ban quran"..