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What works for me most of the time is taking everything between the
(=) signs.

YouTube=yX8yrOAjfKM&feature=share&list=PLA3D67612B92CD08B&index=11

It's the video ID part of the YouTube URL after the = sign:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM

Sometimes the URL has embedding or other additional information, which starts with the & sign. In this case the string in between the = and & signs is what you need:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM&feature=share&list=PLA3D67612B92CD08B&index=11

In these example cases it's the string yX8yrOAjfKM you need to add in YouTube tags:

• [YOUTUBE]yX8yrOAjfKM[/YOUTUBE]

Kari

EDIT: Seems I'm late as usual :).

Thanks again everyone :)

How true...

Stupid pointless math always being taught for no reason. Unless your in a field that needs it. But that's rare.

Well, what if you need it for something like this?

But in all seriousness, I agree. Unless you're entering a field that requires you to utilize a certain type of math, teaching it to everyone is pointless. I've heard a lot of complaints from fellow students, not only because they say they'll never use it, but it also brings their GPA down. How is an art major going to benefit from calculus? My last math class involved learning about probability & statistics, involving formulas that looked like they belonged on the side of a Pyramid. Questions like this that sometimes took 10 mins to figure out....

"Elizabeth bought a box of doughnuts. There are 24 doughnuts in the box, all identical in size, shape & color. Two are jelly filled, 8 are lemon filled & 14 are custard filled. You randomly select one, eat it, then select another. Find the probability of selecting a custard filled doughnut followed by a jelly filled doughnut"

Wow, I can't wait to us this in real life

I stand corrected. Thanks. That should also help me.

Speaking of asking what good was it. The problem being worked on was: graph some points, write a formula that describes those points into a line. Now, rotate the object around the line, to make it into a three dimensional object. Write a calculus formula that describes the 3D object.

So the professor said, trying for as close a quote as I can remember,

"One day a yound university math graduate went to work for Edison. Who handed the kid a glass bulb. Told him to figure out the volume. So kid takes that bulb and starts writing calculus forumlas to come up with the volume. Edison comes back to check on him. Says, No, like this. Takes the bulb. Fills it full of water from the faucet. Dumps the water into a measuring cup. There he says, that is the volume. The professor then said, So I don't know why we are doing this, other than its part of the course."

Now, share my nightmare from 20 years ago... just don't visualize.