Speaking of which, blip.tv, on which most Clojure videos[1] are hosted, is one of the most frustrating websites that I have come across.

It's a pity those videos are not found elsewhere.

Try to start from the oldest videos on the channel.

[1]http://blip.tv/clojure

At a glance, it seems like some of those are available on infoq.com. infoq still has some problems but all in all it's a lot better. And it even offers MP3 downloads of some talks, which I've made extensive use of.

iTunes has some of those: "Clojure By Rich Hickey"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/clojure/id275488598

I'm not letting Vimeo off the hook either: I wanted to see the videos bigger, but not full screen. Clicking their logo said "sorry there was a problem loading this video". So I clicked "Watch later" and both videos were added to my Vimeo profile with title, screencap, etc. Clicking either video there tells me that I don't have permission to watch the private videos. Argh.

EDIT: Now I can't even watch the videos on the Skills Matter page. I get this message: "You have been temporarily blocked from Vimeo - The connection you are using has been automatically prevented from communicating with Vimeo's servers. This ban will be lifted automatically after an appropriate period of time." WTF?

I often set my user agent to iPad so that I'm served <video> elements whose src attribute is a direct (cURLable) link.

agreed, it has to the the worst looking site I've seen in awhile.

I think the content makes up for the eye-injuring theme. There was some Scala talk recently with nice ideas.