Via Miia Ranta’s Blog I discovered that Adobe launched a Flash Linux plugin for the x64 architecture. The fastest way to install it on a Ubuntu 8.10 system is to download the package flashplugin-nonfree – 10.0.12.36ubuntu2~ppa1 from Kees Cook’s PPA. But if installing it, be warned that there is no guarantee that the plugin works. Also, before installing the package, remove the package nspluginwrapper by doing
sudo apt-get remove nspluginwrapper
Though there is no guarantee that the plugin works as expected (it is an alpha prerelease version afterall), it seems to work perfect for me. It has made it possible for me to watch the full episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Yay!