In With The New

It seems that there's a tradition of the Queen of England making Christmas broadcasts. And, now, those broadcasts are available on YouTube via The Royal Channel. It's interesting stuff, but apparently embedded video is too revolutionary for the monarchy so you'll have to click the link to see it.

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Sorta backwards. By default, embedding is enabled. The monarchy is hip enough to know to -- and how to -- disable embedding (and comments). Don't want the Queen to show up on a page with other, not-so-queen-like content. Know what I mean?

Posted by Sean | December 26, 2007 4:06 PM

Actually, several people have re-uploaded it so it can be embedded. And, some people have even downloaded it and made admittedly stupid jokes out of it.

(If you don't understand what that's a take off on, there are several videos from those who are serious, such as youtube.com/watch?v=nIUJ0Fh5ogk ).

Posted by TLB | December 26, 2007 4:28 PM

I'm surprised you weren't aware of the Christmas message from the Queen, Yglesias -- it's even in _movies_ and stuff.

Posted by Eli Parsons | December 26, 2007 6:30 PM

Thanks to Eli Parsons for pointing out the first sentence, which I didn't process the first time. Now that I have, wow. It's not only in movies and the History Channel, it even made it here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Christmas_Message

Posted by TLB | December 26, 2007 8:53 PM