February YouTube digest

19 videos for the month, totalling nearly an hour and a half. As usual, the best ones are in bold. If you watch any of them, I highly recommend the information theory series—it's the same kind of informative, educational content that I used to post thousands of words about here. And if you find my voice unbearably annoying, I'll also be posting transcripts.

• Information theory series
  • Introduction: Uncertainty and self-information
  • Entropy
  • Clarifications on entropy and numeric bases
  • Huffman coding
  • Prefix-free codes
• It's all about practicality
• God: a terrible source for morality
  • Yelling at that guy
  • Absolute morality
• Request: Wicca — First appearance of the backdrop.
• An incident at Wal-Mart
• North Dakota says single cells are people — If you think anencephaly is gross, don't watch this one. If you don't know what anencephaly is, watch this one!
  • Email a politician. They email back. — This spawned another one of those reddit threads where everyone guesses about my gender.
    • Gender ambiguity: Do's and don't's
• Threat o' the day
• Coming out to my family
• Scott Renfroe: Creationist, theocrat, idiot
  • Representation
• Rubik's Cube

Right now, there are 428 subscribers, which is pretty great. It's getting to the point where I'm aggregating many "regulars" who are interested in actually discussing the myriad subjects I cover; it's the same sort of phenomenon that spawned EMPTV back in 2004. Unfortunately, YouTube is possibly the worst place to hold discussions — 500 characters is hardly enough space for a conversation — so I'll be making a forum to facilitate this.

It will be nothing like 17chan, considering how well that ended.