I mentioned in an older blog post how my cats sleep in the weirdest positions. Here's another example

They used to be lab cats and have never seen a male cat. Might explain their behavior. Like Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park: "Nature always finds a way"... or tries to anyways.

I just wanted to say that working on 4.0 has been a wonderful experience for me. I have to thank Lucky and Dag for everything they've done and for presenting me with such a great opportunity. I really enjoy being part of such a great team and I think we've done a pretty good job on 4.0.

Working for the benefit of such a great community was a big motivation as well. If it wasn't for all the wonderful people and their great contributions to this site, I might not have stuck around when I first discovered this site and wouldn't have gotten to this point.

I hope you all enjoy the changes that have been introduced and I'm sure you will continue to make this site the very special place it is on the web.

We've already got some great ideas for 4.1, so don't think that we're gonna take it slow after the launch of 4.0

My cats sleep in the weirdest positions. I think the lil one might still miss her mommy or something, always trying to snuggle with the other kitteh. Sure she's trying to suck up to the white Kitteh, but I think she's starting to take the whole "brown nose" idea too literal!

That, plus Ms. Piggy (the white one) is really into all kinds of dairy products...

This script minimizes Sift Talk posts in the Talk section listing and inserts an arrow next to the title that will expand/collapse the post on click.

Download it here.

Since some users don't feel the need to use snip or collapse tags when posting the phone book on the front page of the talk section, it has become something of a nuisance to navigate it. Other things, like long lists of neat things, can also clutter the talk listing a bit.

You can modify the minHeight variable at the top of the script to change the minimum height (in pixel) a sift talk post has to have in order to be minimized on load (default is 110).

As with all my GM Scripts you will need FireFox and the AddOn GreaseMonkey for this to work.

The image is pretty large, so you'll have to expand the post to see it...

My YouSift GM Script which fills in all relevant sift submission information at the click of a button has been updated to support DailyMotion.com and Break.com (again).

Read more about the script here or directly download it here.

That's all, now go donate some money and help keep VideoSift.com alive! 

Update: Fixed a bug where vote options that only have one vote wouldn't be processed.

Made this one when the polls were introduced. Given the recent influx of siftquisitions/polls I thought it might be worth sharing.

Adds colored bars to the polls. Will result in the vote count being visible all the time (not just after clicking "show votes"). Due to rounding it might end up showing a total of 99 or 101%.

Edit: As with all my GM Scripts you will need FireFox and the AddOn GreaseMonkey for this to work.

Get it here.

A while back when the black theme was introduced to VideoSift some of us noticed how the star icons and such weren't really designed to work on both bright and dark backgrounds. xxovercastxx was nice enogh to make an alternative icon set, but the originals were modified to (somewhat) work with the dark color theme and xxovercastxx icons probably ended up mostly unnoticed...

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For completion's sake, here's my blog entry covering my GreaseMonkey script "YouSift".

YouSift puts a link on YouTube(screenshot) and CollegeHumor(screenshot) video pages. When clicked, you will be redirected to VideoSift's submission page and all the relevant information (embed code, title, tags, description), if available, will be filled in automatically.

Happy Holidays to all my fellow sifters!

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Update 12/03/08: Had to update the script because it was creating problems with non-youtube embeds. Please redownload it. Sorry for the mistake.

This script darkens the background of the page when a (YouTube) video is being played.

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Quick and simple: This script removes the synergy bar that's located at the very top of the page, but preserves the chat link and status by putting it just above the profile | account | log out links.

Hey, don't cry Synergy Bar, it's not you, it's me! We had some good times didn't we? You introduced me to escalopting, we both laughed. But now it's time to go our separate ways.

Get the script here.

Using FireFox and the Addon Stylish or GreaseMonkey gives you the possibility of replacing a site's CSS with your custom StyleSheet. In short, you can restyle any given site to a certain degree. I played around with it a little bit, creating a custom style based on my charter css. Here's the result:

If you want you're Sift to look like this,  download this style here.

Yet another update (03/17): Now works with reclaimvote and brief invocations.

Update: Worked out a few issues and included dupeof, doublepromote and notdead invocations.

While browsing through the Sift Talk section I saw something gorillaman said:

"I'd ignore siftbot if it would actually make the comment disappear entirely, rather than just the text."

Since the siftbot comments don't count towards the total number of comments anymore and the affirmation messages siftbot posts after each invocation can really clutter up the comments section of a thread I wrote this script. It merges the invocating comment with the affirmation message from siftbot, making it look a little more organized. You'll have to disable the script if you want to upvote the merged siftbot messages or see the corresponding links for siftbot (profile, timestamp, etc.).

You need FireFox and the GreaseMonkey extension for this to work. If you don't like the colors you can easily change them by modifying the color and image variables at lines 10 to 12 in the script. 

Link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36670

After going on a killing spree in my personal queue I decided to make this script, because typing (or copy/pasting) the invocation everytime was really annoying. So yeah it's pretty self-explanatory. Press a button and the corresponding invocation will be invoked. There's a confirmation request for the more serious invocations so you don't accidentially kill someone's video.

You need FireFox and the GreaseMonkey extension for this to work. If you don't like the colors you can easily change them by modifying the color variables at lines 9 to 12 in the script.

Enjoy.

Link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36607

Since this is a custom embed it will only work for gold star members and above.

Just go to the video you want to sift and get the embed code. There should be an URL in the embed code which is the src property of the iframe (src=...). Copy that URL and navigate to it in your browser. You should now see a page with only the MSNBC player on it. Assuming you use FireFox (I do, so I don't know the exact way to do this with a different browser) go to Edit -> Select All in the toolbar (or press CTRL+A) and then right click somewhere on that page and click View Selection Source from the popup menu. You should now see the source of the page including the embed object code (<embed ...>). Copy the embed code and delete the following parts:

swliveconnect="TRUE" play="true" loop="true" bgcolor="#000000"
scale="noborder" salign="tl" mayscript=""

Then take what's left of the embed code and submit it, voilà!

The "select all" is neccessary because just viewing the source would only get you the javascript that eventually produces the embed code.

Alternatively you could use the FireFox plugin Firebug to examine the video player on the blank "player only" page to retrieve the embed code, but that would take just as much time and work.