links for 2007-11-30

HandBrake
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
(tags: conversion free opensource video converter mpeg4)

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EMI about to reduce RIAA and IFPI contribution?

Is this the first step of some sanity coming to the music business? Maybe they finally got the message that the endless stream of litigation is really not helping their cash flow in any way.
Look at what Ars has to say.

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links for 2007-11-28

Zattoo – TV to Go
(tags: tv streaming internet p2p)

MySpace.com – The Golden Glows – Antwerpen – Acoustic – www.myspace.com/thegoldenglows
(tags: music thegoldenglows antwerp acoustic)

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links for 2007-11-27

My Exposé : new CTP today :p
(tags: desktop osx opensource windows expose)

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del.icio.us in wordpress.com

Finally I got the autoposting from del.icio.us to my WordPress blog activated.
Here’s how I did it (*):

Make yourself a category you want this posts to appear in. Then look up its ID from “Manage” -> “Categories”
Then you need to obtain the ID of your blog. Apart from asking the wordpress.com admins,there seems to be only [...]

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links for 2007-11-26

FreeRice
(tags: charity games english food rice)

Slashdot – Firehose
(tags: slashdot web2.0 firehose)

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sunday afternoon tunes – victims family

Great band, great songs, genial music, fantastic musicians.
I assume it is obvious I am a big fan of theirs.
I was also so lucky as to meet them several times in the flesh and I can assure you, these guys are really nice! Their atitude and social skills increase the “awesome”-factor multi-fold. This is one hell [...]

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aaaauuuwwww

This is one of the causes of my current bad state. All these muscles you see there, including the ones not colored, are stiff, sore and hurt like hell.
Furthermore, my spinal discs are in a bad shape. Kine managed to loosen up three of them already, but the upper one refuses to come loose. To [...]

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spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

To celebrate over 4000 spam comments being trapped by Akismet, some more SPAM for you :

Oh, and 149 other Monty Python clips (by the way: excellent choice of the word “compendium”).

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invited

I‘m invited!

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small break

Some medical issues keep me from posting and honestly do not encourage me to post at this moment.
We’ll be back after the break …

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sunday afternoon tunes – hithouse – jack to the sound of the underground

Back in 1989 this turned up in clubs and on radio :

The amazing thing was not that is was a mix of popular tunes at that time. After all that’s what jack mixing was all about. The trick was that Peter Slaghuis was a popular producer who managed to produce a [...]

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steampunk laptop

By now it is probably all over the internet, but this one is one of the most stunning steampunk mods. Executed and documented by Datamancer. Notice also the clockwork on the lid.
For those interested, you can find more info on his site (which is down at the moment, I assume due to overload)

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your revolution will be televised

As Michael Franti already sang about with his Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: your revolution will be televised.
Indeed today when I switched on the news, I got to see the ongoing events in Pakistan. Apparently the president Musharraf suspended (highly contested by the supreme court) the Pakistani constitution and declared a state of emergency.
Off course the [...]

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