Nerd License Plate

OH MAN




This person is AWESOME.


At least something good and funny has come out of that infernal picture.

A photo tour of the Transparent Factory in Dresden

Via DIGG

Frappr!

Frappr!


Okay guys, I really have no clue why I made one, but, I did. Add yourselves, something, I dunno. Maybe some kind of use for this will develop.

AWE-SOME

Just watch it.

Embed Google Videos

Hay guys!

Download Google Videos DID go down, killing all embeded content that people had.


Fortunately, Q was able to figure out a work-around using iframes, that I adapted in order to work with services that don't allow iframes, such as Myspace.

All you need to do is find out the URL of the video on Google's servers. Easiest way to do it is to get the adblock extension for Firefox, which everyone should have already, go to your video on Google Video, use the adblock dialogue box to copy the URL of the video file, and stick it in the following code:

<embed allowscriptaccess="never" src="URL GOES HERE" width=" 340" height="280" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="URL GOES HERE"></embed>

The URL that you're going to put in will look like:

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com
%2Fvideoplayback%3Fid%3D2f2643ca8261d06d%26begin%3D0%26len%3D211944%26itag%3
D5%26urlcreated%3D1134939178%26docid%3D-6360674376349568040%
26urlcreated%3D1134939178%26sigh%3DzSz_CD4vrsljhB9OayyACdjqlbI&autoPlay=true

Be sure to look at the URL that you put in, and set " autoplay="true" " to " autoplay= " in order to prevent it from autoplaying, which is annoying.

DownloadGoogleVideos.com Teh Gone?!1?!1/1!!1

Doesn't seem to exist anymore, and any embedded videos I've found are all broken.

Hmm....

Rent

Just saw Rent tonight with my mom.


Great movie.

Rent is a musical (not like one or two songs but really music driven) about a group of artists living in New York, and how they're brought together, and then how they're pulled apart by AIDS and drugs, and how they learn about love and living life to the fullest.

Be sure to get your parent's permission, kids, before you go see it. There's no nudity or anything like that but the themes are mature. There are both homosexual and heterosexual relationships.

It made me think about how I look at homosexuals. In the movie, one of the group of friends is a drag queen, and he/she dies of AIDS. But the group learns through his/her death about how she/he lived life and loved other people, and how to be strong in the face of a terrible challenge like AIDS. I know that homosexuality is a sin; but to ostracize homosexuals is really a wrong thing to do. I sin all the time. Sin can be overcome, but not all at once. Help is needed. I don't think that Christians are helping homosexuals enough to overcome their sin. They feel immediate exclusion. We should be more welcoming, as Jesus would be. Jesus hung out with prostitutes. They didn't magically stop being prostitutes after talking to Jesus. He understood that the change would take time, and that in the meantime they could be saved. The saving would come first, then the gradual cleansing of sin.

In any case, it's a great movie, go see it.

Pandora

Pandora



AWE
SOME!


This is this crazy sweet app that generates radio stations based on music that you tell it you like.

Totally sweet.

Breaking

Firefox 1.5 and Skype 2.0 beta

Firefox 1.5 is out, and just for kicks I downloaded it.


Very nice. The changes seem to be mainly on the backend. The frontend stuff seems to be some stuff with tabbed browsing, such as the ability to rearrange your tabs, and accessibility stuff for people with disabilities and such. The backend changes are pretty cool, improved popup blocking, better updating services, runs faster, smaller memory footprint, stuff that will be transparent to most users.


All in all, the improvements aren't really terribly major, and I don't see this as a "OMG GO GET THIS UPDATE ITS AWESOME!!!" thing. You guys who read this should probably get it, just because we're the type of guys to be on the edge.

Be warned, it might break some of your extensions. It broke my googlebar, so I just went and got the official google one which actually looks better and has some nicer features, so 1.5 breaking that extension was not really a bad thing. If you see yourself getting more extensions in the future, you should upgrade to take advantage of the new extensions designed around 1.5.


In other news, Skype 2.0 beta came out with video chat. I got it and it automatically detected my camera and everything, so, just need someone else to grab it and try it out with me. My skype name is C.Knight . Be ye warned, Skype 2.0 beta requires Windows XP, but of course the release is going to be on both OS X and XP.

Asimo

Got to see Asimo here at Disneyland!