Now that they’re free
The LA Times website posted a clever short video poking fun at the new hands free cellphone law. In typical online video style, they provide an object/embed tag that you can use to stick this video on your own site. As seems typical of online versions of dead tree style publications, they just don’t get it. I first thought it was odd that their embed tag is about a kilobyte, and the UI for copying it makes it difficult to actually select the whole body, and they show an add before the video. What really gets me, though, is that the thing fucking auto starts. I had to move the think behind a link so you don’t see a fucking Lexus ad when you hit my homepage.
Video (and ad) after the jump:
Update: Through the miracle of modern technology, i was able to find the auto start flag in the giant heap of embed code and disable it.
From the LA Times video section: