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Oh man… just thought I’de point out the current time… Neat.

I guess you missed the 12:34:56 7/8/09 one though.

Okay before I paste this convo, I have to say… the only thing I’m truley frightened of is a tornado. Just such raw power and unpredictability… Pasted after the break.

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So call me a nerd thats fine, but one thing all nerds know is that VLC is the best video player… Now a days there are more codec’s than people on the planet that can prevent the average user from viewing their illegally downloaded movies compressed videos. VLC doesn’t use the system codecs to view the movie, instead it comes with its own package of codecs and attempts to view the video … with an amazingly high success rate too!

Anyway, today is the release of v1.0.0 of the program. If you havn’t tried it out yet, you may want to give it a shot… here are some of the key features for the first official non-beta release:

Independant of systems codecs to support most video types

Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support

Finer speed controls

New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)

New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats…

New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder

VideoLAN

Am I the only one that is aware of the future? Am I the only one that is stock piling weapons and amunition in my desk for the coming robot-apocolypse?! Seriously I dont think im getting through to anyone else!

Such self-configuring robots have existed in the world of academic labs for some years now. Last year, a research group at the University of Pennsylvania caught attention with their walking modular robot that slowly reassembled itself after being kicked apart.

Several U.S. military branches and government agencies besides NASA have also shown interest in the idea of shape-shifting, self-repairing robots.

umm… excuse me while I go change my pants.

[via Superbot: The Real Transformer | LiveScience.]

So for my first blog post on the new engine, I had to get something really great. No trouble with that… After being on holidays for a week, there are plenty of sites and links that need to be posted. This is a video of some dude just giving it his all with his yo-yo. His skills makes up for his music selection though…

[via youtube]

Made me laugh, so I thought I’de share.

[via topcultured]

Here is a collection of pillows that look neat or have awesome functionality. Hit the jump for a few more of my favourites and a link to the collection…
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So I’m not sure if you ever played Bridge It for the PC, but this flash game reminded me greatly of it. The idea of the game is to create bridges that dont suck so that you’re critters can cross from one side of the screen to the other. Its a cute addictive game with a lot of engineering lessons embeded into it. Give it a try…

Flash Game Website

[via kottke]

I know its in french, but I think you can still get an appreciation for the neat web application this french dude has written for his macbook pro. .. . At least I hope you can.

[via liveleak]

Not sure if you knew that there are pictures floating around the internet about a camera that may have survived from AirFrance: 447′s which has some the ill-fated flights last minutes. The pictures (one seen above) depicts a horrible scene with the tail end of the plane flying off and people being sucked out of the back of the plane. Now in an unshocking turn of events, the pictures are being recognized by fans of the TV series ‘Lost’…

In their rush to air exclusive photos of Flight 447’s destruction, no one in this newsroom stopped to ask the logical questions, such as:
1) How did the camera survive? and 2) Why are the photos in wide-screen format?

The answers, of course, are: 1) Because the footage is from Lost. And, 2) because the footage is from Lost.

hmm… lol! Hit the jump for the original source video and the first news report that aired the story on TV.

News Casted video

Source Video (starts at 8:05)

[via trueslant]