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NASA on The Commons « Internet Archive News

2010 Aug 31, 8:06
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8 Bit Mixtape by Eclectic Method

2010 Aug 31, 7:59PermalinkCommentsvideo videogame mashup music music-video eclectic-method

YouTube - Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong!!!!

2010 Aug 31, 7:35PermalinkCommentsmusic video youtube ben-folds pomplamoose music-video

Monster Friends Poster Series from Familytree

2010 Aug 26, 5:09
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Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint

2010 Aug 23, 10:48What if the death star briefing in Star Wars IV had Power Point?
PermalinkCommentshumor powerpoint office starwars presentation communication

Video+html5+Popcorn.js=hyper-video - Standblog

2010 Aug 22, 4:04Demo of marked-up video with the people and places shown in the video popping up along side in real time.PermalinkCommentsvideo html html5 javascript technical mozilla

Windows 7 Accelerator Platform COM / C# Interop

2010 Aug 20, 11:20

For a new project I'm working on involving IE's installed Accelerators and OpenSearch search providers via the Windows 7 Accelerator Platform, I've created a C#/COM interop class for those APIs.

Download the osinterop.cs interop file here.

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DVD Ripping and Viewing in Windows Media Center

2010 Aug 17, 3:05

I've just got a new media center PC connected directly to my television with lots of HD space and so I'm ripping a bunch of my DVDs to the PC so I don't have to fuss with the physical media. I'm ripping with DVD Rip, viewing the results in Windows 7's Windows Media Center after turning on the WMC DVD Library, and using a powershell script I wrote to copy over cover art and metadata.

My powershell script follows. To use it you must do the following:

  1. Run Windows Media Center with the DVD in the drive and view the disc's metadata info.
  2. Rip each DVD to its own subdirectory of a common directory.
  3. The name of the subdirectory to which the DVD is ripped must have the same name as the DVD name in the metadata. An exception to this are characters that aren't allowed in Windows paths (e.g. <, >, ?, *, etc)
  4. Run the script and pass the path to the common directory containing the DVD rips as the first parameter.
Running WMC and viewing the DVD's metadata forces WMC to copy the metadata off the Internet and cache it locally. After playing with Fiddler and reading this blog post on WMC metadata I made the following script that copies metadata and cover art from the WMC cache to the corresponding DVD rip directory.

Download copydvdinfo.ps1

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YouTube - Fallout New Vegas E3 2010 Official Trailer

2010 Aug 14, 3:29PermalinkCommentsvideo fallout fallout4 videogame avlater

pinvoke.net: ConsoleFunctions (kernel32)

2010 Aug 14, 5:34pInvoke.net is a wiki for the C# interop declarations for various Win32 functions.PermalinkCommentspinvoke c# csharp consle api windows reference wiki technical

RFC 5987 - Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters

2010 Aug 13, 11:47Other characters sets for HTTP headers: "By default, message header field parameters in Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) messages cannot carry characters outside the ISO-8859-1 character set. RFC 2231 defines an encoding mechanism for use in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers. This document specifies an encoding suitable for use in HTTP header fields that is compatible with a profile of the encoding defined in RFC 2231."PermalinkCommentsrfc language localization charset http technical reference http-header

Google Prediction API - Google Code

2010 Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."PermalinkCommentsrest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical

File API

2010 Aug 13, 4:38Blobs are coming and they're bring with them a new URL scheme...PermalinkCommentsblob html5 url html file api javascript technical uri guid

Taiwanese News Animation of JetBlue Flight Attendant’s Dramatic Exit

2010 Aug 12, 2:09

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Fat Boy Slim - The Joker - YouTube

2010 Aug 9, 11:39PermalinkCommentshumor avlater cat fat-boy-slim music video music-video youtube

Daft Punk Tron Mashup

2010 Aug 4, 2:37
Daft Punk music videos, Tron, and Tron Legacy video mashup from Eclectic Method.
PermalinkCommentsdaft-punk tron video mashup music avlater

Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures

2010 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."PermalinkCommentsvideogame game biology science research

racer

2010 Aug 4, 2:26
Video of racer 0.2 a video game made real sort of. Arcade racing cabinet hooked up to an RC car with wireless video camera placed on a cardboard track.
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CYRIAK'S AMAZING VIDEO BLOG

2010 Aug 3, 3:04
And if you think the following video is weird, take a look at everything else on this person's blog...
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