Embedded video frustration

These days, my Freinds post many youtube videos. They embed them within their posts, without a direct link to the youtube site. I cannot see any of these videos! I see only a black rectangle!

To see them, I go to 'view source', and look at the hard html code of their post and copy the video url, and then open a new window and paste the url in, and then go to youtube and click 'play'. Needless to say, I do this only in 1 case out of 20.

How can I get to see embedded youtube videos???

I have Safari 3.1.1., and an Apple Mac OS X.

Rodney/John

Now, I have read many lovely and yummy and sexy and angsty John Sheppard/Rodney McKay fics, some by my very favouritest authoresses in all fandommes. But: too much of a good thing!!

Just now I learned of a thing called SGA Big Bang (how had I not known of this before? perhaps I had but just forgotten. Is the onset of "second childhood"? Argh. And they have one for Harry/Draco, too! *digresses)

It seems to me that when I entered this fandom way back when in the days of series 2, there used to be a lot more variety in the pairings within SGA fics. In the Big Bang, it's John/Rodney, Rodney/John, McKay/Sheppard, Sheppard/McKay all the bloody way.

What is with that? Is it just that Big Bang has prompts and rules wot i know nothing about so that, of course, it's a McShepShip? Or has the fandom, by increments, veered from its former glorious ensemble-cast slashfest into mono-pairing, à la Sentinel or, um, Hetty Wainthropp?

My very first lovelust fic in this fandom was McKay/Zelenka. I just can't fathom the exclusivity of the McShep-bug.

P.S. Any good new wraith fic out there?? (Not crack!)