...now there's something you can do while waiting for that slow buffering!
http://www.pokertime.eu/blog/YouTube-Snake-Game/
Just found this out today...
normal, "busy" interface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6RgTQyzZA
almost full screen, allowing you to enjoy a "full monitor" viewing of a video, while your clicks on the other monitor won't make the YT video shrink:
http://www.youtube.com/v/zr6RgTQyzZA
(hitting F11 in your browser might make it even better)
same result as clicking the diagonal up arrow (top right corner) -- but sometimes that arrow isn't there. geeky/manual URL change ftw.
YouTube (or Flash in general) is starting to piss me off. I'm running 64bit Windows 7 and Flash has this annoying habit of getting stuck. So as annoying as slow 'Tube is it's WAY more annoying when it just stops for no good reason mid-playback.
Lots of others have this problem and I've yet to hear a satisfactory cause or solution.