2010 Oct 28, 10:41"In part one of our Back to the Future: The Game behind the scenes series, Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd speak on their involvement and excitement on working with Telltale"videovideogamechristopher-lloydbttfbacktothefuture
2010 Sep 27, 3:15This is awesome and similar to something I got a cube for. Wikipedia runs its videos through a service that sets up torrents for arbitrary URLs. So awesome! Now if only this were built into the user
agent rather than requiring hardcoding the sites to use it...technicalp2pwikipedianetworknetworkingtorrentweb
2010 Sep 27, 3:08Adam Barth's URI API draft starts to appear in webkit: "One of the things Adam Barth is currently working on is an URL API. Citing it, the API can be used for constructing, parsing and resolving URLs
through scripting, easening up tasks like getting and setting parameters. Today the first part landed in WebKit, which added the “origin” property."webkitadam-barthuriurlapijavascriptdomhtmlhtml5browserwebbrowsertechnical
2010 Sep 27, 1:51Learn how to correctly generalize about the users of Reddit, Facebook, BoingBoing, etc based on the redirect HTTP stats collected from this sites recent popular post on Chewbacca.statisticsinternetwebblog
2010 Sep 24, 8:38"Comedian Stephen Colbert joined the panel of witnesses at a House hearing on immigrant farm workers. Mr. Colbert has partnered with United Farm Workers and their campaign calling on unemployed
Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The organization's president, Arturo Rodriguez, also testified at the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing chaired by
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Washington, DC : 2 hr. 10 min."humorvideostephen-colbertpoliticsimmigrationfarmlaborhouse
2010 Sep 24, 3:00You'd imagine that putting the folks from the funny podcast The Nerdist onto the funny podcast Doug Loves Movies would be even funnier still -- and you'd be correct: 'Doug welcomes his podcast
brethren Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray and Matt Mira of "The Nerdist" to the show.'humorpodcastchris-hardwickdoug-bensondoug-loves-movies
2010 Sep 14, 2:49Thanks to someone for this list of mp3s: "I really dug into a collection of Nirvana songs culled from BBC Sessions circa 1989-1991."nirvanamusicmp3bbc
2010 Sep 4, 8:10"Reminiscent of the Beastie Boys "Awesome; I Fuckin'Shot That", more than 50 Radiohead fans captured the band's Aug. 23 show in Prague on Flip cameras, with the resulting footage later assembled into
the new Live In Praha DVD." radioheadmusicvideoyoutube
2010 Sep 4, 7:55"Given Duke Nukem Forever's epic development—it was first announced in 1997 as a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D—it might be wise to hedge on the later of those two release windows."duke-nukemgamevideovideogame
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:
Run Windows Media Center with the DVD in the drive and view the disc's metadata info.
Rip each DVD to its own subdirectory of a common directory.
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)
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.
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."videogamegamebiologyscienceresearch
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.
2010 Jul 26, 6:56"But in addition to all the views, you can go directly to the back-end that drives all the data: The MSDN/TechNet Publish System (MTPS) Content Service. With that interface, you can request the
back-end data and format it any way you like."msdnwebmicrosoftreferencewebservicetechnical
2010 Jul 21, 3:08"Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele" "Immediate download of 7-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly
desire. Buy Now $0.84 USD or more"amanda-palmeraudiodownloadmp3musicradioheadukulele
2010 Jul 13, 6:27"Occasionally the Technical Community Network group sits down with some of Microsoft’s most influential technical employees to capture their stories. Instead of examining specific technologies, BTC
takes a closer look at the person, the career and what it takes to produce world-class software."microsoftmsdnpodcastchannel9c++programmingtechnicalvideo
2010 Jul 12, 7:11How to get around Hulu's physical location filtering: Use something like Fiddler to add the X-Forwarded-For header that HTTP proxies with an IP address associated with a phyiscal location you desire
and block your port 1935 which Flash uses for RTMP (see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16499.html)huluproxysecuritytvhowtotechnical
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