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YouTube Deal Turns Copyright Videos Into Revenue - NYTimes.com
3 days ago"In the past, Lions Gate, which owns the rights to the “Mad Men” clip, might have requested that TomR35’s version be taken down. But it has decided to leave clips like this up, and in return, YouTube runs ads with the video and splits the revenue with Lions Gate."
Telltale Games times 'Back to the Future' project - Game Hunters: In search of video games and interactive awesomeness - USATODAY.com
6 days agoChristopher Lloyd will voice Doc Brown in the Back to the Future game series
Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
Aug 23, 10:48What if the death star briefing in Star Wars IV had Power Point?Video+html5+Popcorn.js=hyper-video - Standblog
Aug 22, 4:04Demo of marked-up video with the people and places shown in the video popping up along side in real time.Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
Aug 4, 2:29Using games for good! Foldit players are solving real biochemistry problems. "Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior, or simply used games to drum up excitement for the science. But this may be the first time that the gamers played an active role in producing the results, having solved problems in protein structure through the Foldit game."Make: Online : How-To: Personal Applause Sign
Jul 14, 10:24This would be perfect to hook up to my automated test system. Everytime new tests pass the applause sign flashes.The Curious History of Uniform Resource Names - IETF Journal
Jul 1, 10:51"Sometimes it’s hard to judge whether an engineering effort has been successful or not. It can take years for an idea to catch on, to go from being the butt of jokes to becoming an international imperative (IPv6). Uniform Resource Names (URNs), which are part of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) family, are conceptually at least as old as IPv6. While not figuring in international directives for deployment, they-and the technology engineered to resolve them-are still going concerns."TiMER
Jun 29, 1:24
An excellent movie I'd never heard of. An entertaining and humorous sci-fi indie romance comedy. It stars Emma Caulfield (who I recognize as Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) who obsesses over her timer, an implanted device that counts down to when she'll meet the love of her life. Thematically its similar to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which similarly adds a scifi device to society in order to examine the value of failed relationships on a persons life.
First Time Pulled Over
Jun 19, 5:09I was pulled over for the first time this past Thursday. I got a citation because the tabs on my car were out of date. Oops.
Senators call for end to anonymous, prepaid cell phones
May 27, 8:52Time to stock up on prepaid anonymous cell phones before its too late! Or just use the call encryption Android application...Mike Phirman
May 19, 7:17A creative-commons released comedy album. Heard him on the Nerdist podcast where he played live several of the songs you'd imagine someone having a tough time playing live. Humorous and is that Weird Al I hear in Street Meat?Members Of The Supreme Court As Human Beings
May 14, 9:37New York Times article from May 15th 1910 titled "MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT AS HUMAN BEINGS: When Not on the Bench They Are Pretty Much Like Other People — Characteristic Stores About Them". This is the NYT 1910's version of US Weekly's current "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!" feature.Shepard Fairey - Interview Magazine
May 10, 8:59Iggy Pop interviews Shepard Fairey, including his Obama HOPE poster and AP lawsuit:"... but the American public is generally pretty superficial, so an image like that just allows them to project whatever limited idea they have onto it. Obviously, not everyone is like that—I actually think there were a lot of people who were bummed by the image because they felt it was shallow propaganda."
"If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that’s not cool. But the way I make art—the way a lot of people make art—is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It’s about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn’t in any way take away from the original—and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience."
CMAP #9: Ebooks
May 10, 8:43Charles Stross on the intersection of ebooks and the publishing industry. Includes the answer to the misinformed question "why are you charging so much for access to the file your authors emailed you?" Also includes this quote on Cory Doctorow "... Cory is a Special Snowflake with EFF superpowers and New York Times Bestseller mojo which make him immune to the normal laws of man and nature."FBJS - Facebook Developer Wiki
May 6, 7:25Another subset of javascript and DOM access to make a sandbox: "FBJS is Facebook's solution for developers who want to use JavaScript in their Facebook applications. We built FBJS to empower developers with all the functionality they need, and to protect our users' privacy at the same time."Amazon Kindle: Most Highlighted Passages of All Time
May 3, 7:27Amazon has the most highlighted passages of Kindle users. Of course Dan Brown is all over that. But in 94th place of most highlighted is a passage from the 'Kindle Shortcuts' book on how to highlight passages: "Go to top Notes and Clippings (Kindle 2) To create a highlight: use the 5-way controller to highlight the content you want to clip and then press the 5-way to save your selection... Highlighted by 319 Kindle users"Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori
Apr 16, 1:08Analysis of a potentially time travelling individual captured in a 40s photo "Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940".
Ajaxian » Getting Users to Upgrade Their Browsers
Apr 11, 3:53Has graphs of browser usage by version over time to show upgrade speed for Chrome, IE, and Firefox. Chrome has a lovely graph.
Palimpsest by Charles Stross
Apr 6, 5:06"Palimpsest by Charles Stross, 2009. This version made available for 2010 Hugo Award voters by kind permission of the publishers."Childrens' Hospital: Watch Full Episodes on TheWB.com. Starring Hot Tub Time Machine's Rob Corddry
Apr 5, 10:41A satirical hospital drama TV show starring tons of humorous people like Rob Corddry, David Wain, Jason Sudeikis and many many more people who you will recognize but not necessarily know their name.
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