YouTube has recently added new sections of which you may not be aware, here they are in case you’d like to waste more time than you probably already do there. There is a LOT of stuff available.
EDU: if you’re feeling cerebral. Boatloads of vids from various universities. Click Directory once there to see. There are entire courses available to view (e.g. @MIT)
TV Shows: impressive mix of classics and newer stuff.
Movies: ditto.
Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 classic Super Size Me is up on Hulu for free right now. In it he eats McDonalds three meals a day for 30 days. The experiment is interspersed with tons of shocking documentary bits highlighting the growing obesity epidemic in America. It’s a must watch if you haven’t, and probably worth a re-watch if you have. Click here to go to the Hulu page, where it’s a little bigger, you can click HD, lower the lights, pop out, whatever. Love you, Hulu!
edit: it’s now up on YouTube as well:
I haven’t seen anything written on the net about this, but I’m noticing that all my YouTube videos (IE or Firefox) are loading in a 640×360 resolution, or a 16:9 ratio. This is very cool. Welcome to the 21st century, YouTube!
edit: Ah, found it
I haven’t been able to get the stop time to work with embedding though. But if you use the Share link on the splicd site, the start/stop works (like this). But you can’t embed that. Also, getting at the exact second you wish to link to seems quirky, but this is a nice service if you want to link a specific point in a long video without asking the viewer to seek it themselves. Another nice aspect of this is it seems YouTube doesn’t bother to load the portion before which you linked to. This is all possible because YouTube recently enabled deep linking to its videos.
Example: