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An Inside Look at Threadless T-Shirts

2010 Sep 15, 10:56A short look behind the scenes of Threadless. Cool shots of the screen printing machines.PermalinkCommentsvideo shirt tshirt threadless behind-the-scenes

Conserve Water, or the Fish Will Die - Design - GOOD

2010 Sep 15, 10:51That's an idea... Makes me feel really bad for the fish... I guess that's the point.
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Muzzle of Bees » Nirvana :: BBC Sessions (1989-1991)

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."PermalinkCommentsnirvana music mp3 bbc

Make: Online : Hand lights — Cool Tools contest winner

2010 Sep 14, 2:24Good idea and solves some of the head lamp problems: "...Enter the Hand Lights, a pretty simple and cheap DIY project that puts adjustable lights on your forearms to light whatever is in your hands."PermalinkCommentslight diy hand head-lamp tool

Google Launches 'The Google' For Older Adults | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 4:11Unfortunately it looks like TheGoogle.com is not available...PermalinkCommentshumor google search technical

Area Man Suddenly Realizes He's The One Who's Been Killing Off World's Bee Population | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 2:16'Following a news update on the depopulation of honeybees across North America and much of the world, it suddenly dawned on local bank teller Keith Orlander Tuesday that he, personally, was responsible for the dramatic and theretofore unexplained disappearance of the insects. "Boy, come to think of it, I guess I have been killing millions of bees lately,"'PermalinkCommentsbee bees humor onion

Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan from Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology, and Society By Thomas A. Easton

2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain

Soviet Arcade Game Posters - a set on Flickr

2010 Sep 4, 8:45
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Download a new Radiohead concert film for free | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

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."
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It's Official: Duke Nukem Forever Coming From Gearbox In 2011

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."PermalinkCommentsduke-nukem game video videogame

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

Telltale Games times 'Back to the Future' project - Game Hunters: In search of video games and interactive awesomeness - USATODAY.com

2010 Sep 1, 12:42Christopher Lloyd will voice Doc Brown in the Back to the Future game series
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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?
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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
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