Drat it all! I was seriously hoping for "Share and enjoy".

Anything that's a mixture of a liquid and a solid where the solid melts at a higher temperature than the liquid evaporates would qualify.

For instance, cane juice, if you boil it long enough, will turn into cane sugar and water vapor.

The first concern is survival, of course. But this is a member of the Outquisition we're talking about: they survive already. They're provisioned for a journey, probably with a pack animal or two each.

No item short of a cornucopia device will be incredibly useful. An Outquisitor must, however, have and provide sufficient knowledge to raise the standard of living in any edge town she is likely to visit.

This involves:
- creating sturdier shelters
- basic and intermediate crafting: blacksmithing, coopering, the making of small boats such as canoes, knitting, animal husbandry, carding and knitting and weaving....
- how to create the tools for any of the aforementioned purposes, with an emphasis on simplicity of design and required materials
- how to gather supplies needed for these crafts
- basic sanitation
- basic health care (including local sources for medicinal supplies -- no rare herbs from 2000km to the south)
- how to prepare food for extended storage
- how to gather sufficient food to have a surplus to put in to storage
Most importantly:
- how to duplicate a repository of the Outquisition's knowledge

Each village could be a half decade's work for a few Outquisitors. Most of that would be spent training apprentices to the point that the reference materials left behind would be useful. An Outquisitor who visited even ten villages would be remarkable.

Of course, after the essential Outquisition, the Outquisitors would serve as a news source, as wandering tutors and doctors, as a source for the latest innovations. A core of Outquisitors would have to guard (from destruction, by duplication and dissemination) knowledge of technology that isn't ready for implementation (due to a lack of resources or prerequisite technologies), of course.

Typo: It's "whither", not "wither", for the first.

Most flash video players end up dumping the .flv in a tempfile (/tmp/FlashXXXXXX, at least for youtube vids; that might be a Firefox or Flash naming convention) and just play that.

Once the video's completely downloaded, you can just grab that flv and play it in mplayer, totem, whatever, and transcode it as easily. Then you can upload it to another, more accessible service, probably lossily.

Reposting is likely illegal unless the video's license explicitly allows it.

For comparison, what's the average cost and speed in NYC?

Well, the fastest common connection seems to be with FiOS from Verizon; you can get 30Mbps for $140 a month. I'm not sure how you could get an equivalent residential connection here.