{"id":542,"date":"2010-07-24T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-07-24T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T02:16:08","slug":"the-breakdancing-ghost-of-narada-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"The Breakdancing Ghost of Narada Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gather around the campfire, boys and girls and everyone else.  It&#8217;s story time.<\/p>\n<p>(This is both an attempt to entertain AND a technical test &#8211; I&#8217;d be most appreciative if any or all of you left me a comment letting me know how this works for you.  I&#8217;ll put some technical information at the end of the post.)<\/p>\n<p>This story concerns a certain location in Mount Ranier National Park&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\" title=\"The Breakdancing Ghost of Narada Falls - oggcast\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/audio\/BreakdancingGhostOfNaradaFalls.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\" \/><source src=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/audio\/BreakdancingGhostOfNaradaFalls.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><source src=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/audio\/BreakdancingGhostOfNaradaFalls.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/><object type=\"application\/x-java-applet\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><param name=\"archive\" value=\"\/mediaplayers\/cortado-ovt-stripped-0.5.1.jar\"><param name=\"code\" value=\"com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class\"><param name=\"url\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/audio\/BreakdancingGhostOfNaradaFalls.ogg\"><p>Your browser neither supports HTML5 &#8220;Ogg Vorbis&#8221; or MP3 audio nor Java!  <a href=\"\/mediaplayers\/FlashMP3Player.php?section=audio&#038;mediafile=BreakdancingGhostOfNaradaFalls.mp3\" title=\"xspf_flash_player -  to play mp3 file (new window)\" target=\"_New\">Click here for an Adobe Flash-based mp3 player version of the audio&#8230;<\/p><\/object><\/audio> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/38235159\" title=\"Monument to the Breakdancing Ghost of Narada Falls\" target=\"_New\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/images\/GhostPicQR.png\" title=\"QRCode for ' http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/38235159 '\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/38235159\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/a>After you hear this harrowing tale, if you can&#8217;t make it out to Mount Ranier National Park to verify the story for yourself, you can see a picture of the monument online.  Click or scan the QRCode image to the right to see it after you&#8217;ve heard the story.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback is welcome and encouraged.  For those who are interested, here&#8217;s what this post is supposed to do, technically:<\/p>\n<p>If you are viewing this post in a modern (HTML5-supporting) browser, the &#8220;native&#8221; audio player in your browser should appear above, allowing you to press &#8220;play&#8221; and listen to the story.  All but one of the modern HTML5-supporting browsers support the high-quality (and legally free to use) &#8220;Ogg Vorbis&#8221; audio format and will play that version.  If you are in the minority of HTML5-browser-using population (Safari), an MP3 version should play instead.  (The problem with Safari is that Apple doesn&#8217;t include a Quicktime component for Ogg media formats out of the box.  Personally, I would recommend going ahead and installing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xiph.org\/quicktime\" title=\"Xiph Quicktime Components\" target=\"_New\">Free Quicktime Components<\/a>, which will enable Ogg media formats for Safari, iTunes, and all other Quicktime-using programs.)<\/p>\n<p>If you are NOT using a modern, HTML5-supporting browser at all (or are perhaps using one I&#8217;ve never heard of that supports neither higher-quality Ogg Vorbis nor MP3) &#8211; mainly Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Internet Explorer&#8221; browsers and really old versions of Firefox or Opera that may still be in use &#8211; if you have Java installed, a Java-based Ogg Vorbis player should appear instead, allowing you to play the higher-quality audio anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If your browser doesn&#8217;t support HTML5 AND doesn&#8217;t support Java, a link to an Adobe Flash-based MP3 player should appear.  Click on that, and you SHOULD have a window pop up that will play the lower-quality MP3 version of the audio.<\/p>\n<p>In short, nearly everyone <em>should<\/em> be able to play the audio if I&#8217;ve done all of this correctly.  Please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gather around the campfire, boys and girls and everyone else. It&#8217;s story time. (This is both an attempt to entertain AND a technical test &#8211; I&#8217;d be most appreciative if any or all of you left me a comment letting me know how this works for you. 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