YouTube:
Most cool, lots of "stuff" from cartoons to military machine guns to movie scenes. What is not to love about it??
As a parent of two great kids, how could I not already know about YouTube. I have watched movie clips (the trailer for the Nick Nolte/Eddie Murphy film "48 Hours" most recently), endless Joe Pesci scenes and "edited" creations of people with lots of talent or sophisticated video equipment. I can explore for hours as I've always been a "visual" consumer. But beyond the pop culture and Gen X stunt clips, there are some jewels. I found one...
Below is some footage of the Royal Navy's World War II carrier borne torpedo bomber, the Fairey Swordfish. It doesn't look especially impressive I suppose. But consider these were the aircraft that attacked the powerful German battleship Bismarck in 1941, hitting its single rudder, jamming it so that she could only steam in circles. That hit allowed HMS King George V and HMS Rodney to catch and sank Bismarck. Hitler lost confidence in the German surface fleet and used it conservatively. So in a sense, this was an aircraft that had a direct and indirect influence on history....And I think that is cool. And without YouTube, I'd have never seen this footage. I "marked" my territory at YouTube by posting a favorable comment on a longer Swordfish clip too.
YouTube is easy to search by keyword. I also searched at Google video but interestingly, most of my results were from YT. I already had an account before "23 Things" so I added a couple videos to my "Favorites" and wrote descriptive information.
Now, I will shortly add the books about the Fairey Swordfish (Ha--you are laughing but yes, there are a number of books!!) to my Library Thing account. Now if there were only some way to link the video to them....
Enough already--
Here's the best opening song, or is it a commercial... from any TV show...hit the gas...!
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