Hippie Gnu Year!
That’s it. Make it a good one!
Station in the Metro
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Console Wars
Sure the XBox 360 has been out a year longer than the other two, but the numbers are still interesting:
[Images missing — nexgenwars.com is now defunct —Ed. 2015-08-15]
At first glance, it seems as if game innovation may actually be beating out making old games prettier.
The above graphics are supposedly updated once per minute with the latest sales figures. When I first posted them, they looked like this:
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That sounds painful.
Lip Explosion, found at the local Costco.
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Bunnies in a Barbie Car
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Get a VHS/DVD Combo Deck
I was trying to transfer my VHSes to DVD the manual, digitize and burn way, because I’m a control freak, and I want nice DVDs with pretty menus and edited-out commercials. But, I finally got one of the Panasonic combo VHS/DVD decks, and it does a great job. Sure the menus aren’t as pretty, but at least they’re digital, and if I ever want to go back and make pretty DVDs, it’s pretty easy to rip, edit and re-burn on my Mac.
If you want to get it done fast, a combo deck is the way to go. The Pannys even let you specify how long to record for, and then it will auto-stop and finalize the disc for you—so you can go do something productive while it dubs.
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Understand Widescreen Video in 30 Seconds or Your Money Back
MoreI’m writing this because just about every explanation of widescreen video on the web takes too long to get to the point, what with all the “history of video” and all that crap, and people like my friend AAl will give up before they even get to the first figure. So, without further ado:
Pretend […]
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Ruby on Rails
MoreYesterday, I got Amazon’s shipment of Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide, and I stepped through the installation of Ruby and Rails and did the first “Hello, world!”-type tutorial. Rails looks really amazing (there’s even a tutorial online that shows a simple blog engine being built in 15 minutes, and with only […]
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