When you rip a DVD in Windows, the video is split up into a number of .vob files that are each about 1 gigabyte. Sometimes, its necessary to merge those files to create a single large .vob file. VobMerge is Windows freeware that does an excellent, fast job of such merger operations. Update: Lee Schwingler…
February, 2006
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This weekend, the Guardian published this op-ed by philosopher Peter Singer that takes George W. Bush to task over the president’s pro-life views. Singer attempts to show that Bush is not worthy of being called pro-life, writing, Last month, the military forces that this same president commands aimed a missile at a house in Damadola,…
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Just when you think it is safe to go back into the technology store, along comes a gadget like the Planon RC800 That, my friends, is a scanner. And, according to this review at ThinkComputers.Org, its a pretty damn fine scanner given its pen-sized shape and weight. The damn thing even has an internal mini-SD…
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This 1Up.Com story tries to pass of World of Warcraft as the new golf — a game that some people play in part to hang out and talk shop as much as they do for the game experience itself. The only evidence for this sort of phenomenon is venture capitalist Joi Ito who apparently runs…
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Earlier this month, 18 year old Jacob Robida injured three people with a hatchet and gun at a gay bar in New Bedford, Massachussetts. He then fled to Arkansas where he murdered a law enforcement official and his female companion. He was, thankfully, killed by police officers there (some reports claim he committed suicide). What…
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I was doing some online reading about baseball statistics the other day and happened upon an awesome story of a stunt pulled by some opportunistic telegraph operator in 1912. The Telegraph operator was Lou Proctor, and what good old Lou did was insert himself into the box score of a Browns-Red Sox game. He put…
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I rarely watch NASCAR and I’ve never read a romance novel, but I just might have to give the NASCAR branded Harlequin Romance novel, In the Groove, a quick read. From the Amazon.Com description, “She wouldn’t know a NASCAR star if he hit her with his car…and he just did. Sarah was a kindergarten teacher…
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Someone sent me a link the other day to a profile of anti-videogame nutcase Jack Thompson that contained the following quote attributed to Thompson, The Bible doesn’t promote killing innocent people. Grand Theft Auto does. This quote appears in a number of profiles/attacks on Thompson, but I haven’t been able to track it back to…
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In which Lisa reaches level 60.
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C64 Takeaway is a podcast devoted to Commodore 64-based music. Definitely not for everyone, but if 8 bit music is your thing, check this out.