404 video effect?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Saw a mention of another of those amusing 404 pages.  The write-up ( 
http://techland.time.com/2011/08/02/please-witness-the-best-404-error-page-in-
internet-history/ ) said something about just embedding the video would loose the 
effect, and "effect is everything, right?"

So I had a look at http://www.nosh.me/404  (The video seems to be from Vimeo: 
http://vimeo.com/26858445 )

And it crashed my computer.  (Firefox 5.0.1 browser, Win7 with as many of the 
updates as I've been able to get installed in five days and six reboots.)

No shutdown dialogue, no shutdown sequence.  Black screen, and eventually the 
Windows "your system did not shutdown gracefully, do you want to try safe mode" 
screen.  *Very* slow startup, although eventually everything did seem to come 
back.

Using IE9 under Win7 or IE8 under XP the video just shows an inactive black 
rectangle and does not play.  Using FF 3.6.18 under XP the video plays all the way 
through: no crash.  Using Safari under Mac OS X Snow Leopard the video plays all 
the way through, although it stutters several times, particularly near the beginning.

Given the latter tests, I suspect it isn't overtly dangerous (although I'm running a 
full scan with MSE right now, and will do some others later).  But I'm still not 
quite willing to have another run at it on the Win7 machine yet ...

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himself and says, `Ah!  I am warm; I see the fire.'  From the
rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships.
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