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New Doctor Who For Red Nose Day 2011

2011 Mar 19, 9:19

Yo dawg, I heard you like TARDISes...


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Junkyard Jumbotron: join all your screens into one big one, no software install needed - Boing Boing

2011 Mar 14, 4:30A web service to turn multiple web browsing devices into one larger screen. Panning and zooming on one screen (for phones) changes the whole picture.
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FORA.tv - WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn't?

2011 Jan 23, 9:49PermalinkCommentswikileaks video law politics media technical clay-shirky

The death of a meme: Donald Glover calls a truce with the new Peter Parker [Spider-man]

2010 Nov 21, 9:00PermalinkCommentsSpider-man Andrew Garfield Comic Books Dancing donald glover Movies Peter Parker Reality TV Superheroes Television technical

Conan O’Brien Presents Show Zero – The Fastest Talk Show Ever

2010 Nov 2, 9:16PermalinkCommentsvideo conan-obrien talk-show humor tv

Hulu Desktop Integration Brings Hulu to Windows 7 Media Center

2010 Sep 25, 7:46PermalinkCommentswmc hulu win7 windows7 media television tv video

YouTube Deal Turns Copyright Videos Into Revenue - NYTimes.com

2010 Sep 4, 7:40"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."PermalinkCommentsad advertising copyright economics google internet tv video youtube article

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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Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server

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)PermalinkCommentshulu proxy security tv howto technical

Party Down: Season 1

2010 Jul 5, 4:28

I just finished watching both seasons of this very funny and engaging TV series Id previously never heard of and I highly recommend it. Adam Scott stars as an actor who has given up on his dream of acting and joins a catering company working along side actors trying to make it in LA. There are many ties to Veronica Mars: the shows creator is Rob Thomas (the creator of Veronica Mars), the show features Ken Marino and Ryan Hansen, and has guest stars of Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, and Enrico Colantoni, among others. It has many of the same talented people from Veronica Mars but Party Down is more like a smarter and funnier The Office given the relationship between Adam Scott and Lizzy Caplan and their subtle mockery of their wackier workmates and inept boss.
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FORA.tv - Adam Sadowsky: Music, Machines & Life

2010 Jun 6, 4:39
Adam Sadowsky of Syyn Labs presents at Maker Faire about how Syyn Labs produced the Rube Goldberg machine for the OK Go This Too Shall Pass video.
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How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit

2010 Jun 3, 9:42PermalinkCommentsmedia news newspaper tv blog technical

Childrens' Hospital: Watch Full Episodes on TheWB.com. Starring Hot Tub Time Machine's Rob Corddry

2010 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.PermalinkCommentshumor tv hospital satire rob-corddry

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2010 Mar 12, 11:11"All of the sculpted noses on the planet Viltvodle VI were fashioned after Douglas Adams' own. The creators used a 3D model he had created for the game Starship Titanic." The noses mentioned in the previous sentence were depicted in the movie in a church. The religion of this church maintains that the universe was created by their god sneezing out the universe and so they have statues of their god's nose throughout the church. Of course this is intended to seem absurd, however based on the previous sentence -- that the nose belonged to Douglas Adams -- then they really were worshping the nose of their creator.PermalinkCommentsdouglas-adams book hhgttg movie religion nose

Spaced - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online for free - Hulu

2010 Mar 9, 12:09Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (I know them from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) were in this british comedy in the late 90s Spaced. A decade later its still pretty funny.
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Fake electronic gear props - Boing Boing

2010 Mar 9, 5:26I have often wondered where furniture stores get their fake TVs, PCs, etc. Yes, apparently there is a store where they buy that. Now about the chotchkies in Applebees or Red Robin...PermalinkCommentselectronics fake tv pc store purchase

Max Headroom To Be Released on DVD

2010 Mar 3, 4:07
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Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape | Threat Level | Wired.com

2010 Mar 1, 2:24There is an amazing amount of info around about the alleged assassination Mahmoud al-Mabhouh including this Dubai hotel survielance footage.PermalinkCommentsvideo crime security privacy wired cctv

Methods of Watching TV

2010 Feb 3, 1:09If you've got cable, Internet, and Netflix you end up with a large number of TV viewing options. Its nice to have the options but is there some way to collect and summarize my available options at any one time?

TV PC
Comcast TV Xbox 360 + Windows Media Center Windows Media Center
Comcast OnDemand Cable box Fancast
Hulu Xbox 360 + PlayOn + Windows Media Center Hulu
Netflix Watch Instantly Xbox 360 + Netflix App Netflix Watch Instantly
Netflix DVDs Xbox 360 PC
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YouTube - "Lost" Recapped by Extended Italian Family

2010 Jan 30, 2:52PermalinkCommentshumor lost parody tv
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