(works best in chrome but it’ll work in safari too)

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So I wanted to sit down in my updated home theatre and watch one of my favorite films, “Star Wars”. Problem is, I have two versions on DVD, and neither are ideal. The 2004 DVD version has remastered audio and video, but also added scenes and changes I really don’t like. The 1977 DVD version is a poor quality transfer and encoding.

So I combined the 1977 and 2004 DVDs into the highest quality 1977 version of the film! I show all my scripts and techniques here, too, so you can make the same version from your two DVDs, too!
http://www.archive.org/details/reremaster

star wars comparison of two films

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This is going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday and Thursday. It looks awesome. We should go!

Here’s a list of films that are playing (though I’m not sure which films are playing on which night).

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Karin Dreijer Andersson made it on to Resident Advisor’s Top 100 albums of the ’00s list twice, once for her solo album as Fever Ray and again for her collaboration with her brother as The Knife.

Here is an acceptance speech that Fever Ray gave at an awards show in Sweeden. It is one of the best acceptance speeches ever given:

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- Tom Waits, via reddit

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I just found out about the Khan Academy in the news earlier this week and I think it’s one of the most inspirational projects I’ve seen in a while.

Salman Khan is a former hedge fund manager who single handedly created a whole library of YouTube videos to explain all manner of mathematical and scientific topics to kids in a way that’s easy to understand. He started doing them as a way to tutor his nieces and nephews. Now

…his 800-plus videos are viewed about 35,000 times a day, forming a virtual classroom that dwarfs any brick and mortar school he might have imagined. By using the reach of the Internet, he’s helped bring education to the information-hungry around the world who can’t afford private tutors or Kaplan prep courses.

I watched a few of them and I’m totally hooked! When I was in school I always learned just enough math to do well on tests, but then I’d promptly forget what I learned after a test was over. I wished I had someone like Salman Khan as a teacher…someone who made math relevant and interesting beyond a test and who spoke in plain english instead of abstractions.

He’s also got a series on economics and the financial system that I totally plan on watching since I know so pathetically little about how it all works.

There’s more about his project over here.

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“Check out this drum machine. It’s from India. I circuit-bent it!”

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An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube is an hour-long presentation that Prof. Michael Wesch gave at Library of Congress. Prof. Wesch researches digital ethnography at KSU and previously made the famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video in 2007.

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via reddit:

Ataque de panico! (Panic Attack!) Is a short film describing an invasion of giant robots. What is impressive is knowing that it was carried by two men from Uruguay in six months with $ 300 budget.

I used to have that awesome robot in the opening shot..

This film would have been scarier if it included this giant flame-throwing robot baby:

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Silent Library is a segment of Downtown no GAki no Taskai ya Arahende!! It is a little bit like Crickets Available Here, but played in a library.

This one involves no crickets, but does have a giant millipede:

This one involves spoons!

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via reddit

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From Wikipedia:

Alive in Joburg is a science fiction short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, released in 2005 by Spy Films. It runs approximately six minutes long and was filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa. The film explores themes of apartheid, and is noted for its visual effects as well as its documentary-style imagery.

link to IA page.

Alive in Joburg is being remade by into a feature-length film called District 9 that looks like it borrows heavily from Transformers.

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This weekend I went up to Downieville to race in the Downieville Classic which is the biggest mountain bike race in CA. It was so much fun! I’m happy to report that I still have all 4 limbs that I started with and they are in their proper place the last I checked. I shot the video above of the River Jump championships which happened after the cross country race on Saturday. I didn’t do that. These guys were nuts.

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Pink Saturday was amazing.. there were at least a trillion people there!

Peliom took this picture of TikiTV VJ’ing on the main stage at Castro and Market:

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The Knack is a surreal British comedy from 1965. I hadn’t seen it in a long time, and stumbled upon it on Hulu:

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Playin Donkey Kong with you:

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I went to bed at 2am last night. The alarm went off at 6am this morning . It was waaaay too early to do much other than check the internets, so that’s what I did, and found inbflat.net. This site is magic.

Eventually I realized I had to stop playing with it and do some work, but I wanted to keep listening. So I made the Bb Buddha Machine.

It probably doesn’t work in IE. It brings linux machines to their knees. But I listened to it for at least eight hours today. Enjoy!

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via reddit.tv

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i finally found the magic dead chicken to use
with flowplayer + lighttpd + mod_h264_streaming.
it turns out one needs to download and use an additional
.swf file to get the scrubber bar to send the
(already working) “?start=610″ (to start 610 seconds in)
parameter to our litey on archive.org

phew! yay!

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OneEighteen, a ship pilot in Houston, has posted this beautiful timelapse he took during a six-hour run through the Port of Houston:

More info about the timelapse. CC by-nc licensed. Part 2 below:
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This is Auto-Tune the News #2. It gets awesome at 1m 23s:

Also, Michael Gregory’s other videos.

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Here are some old pics of Sam and Peliom vj-ing with the open source TikiTV software at the Timothy Leary Archives event at 111 Minna. Way fun!

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These are not your average Transformers fans:

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I’ve already made most of you watch this video of Maru the Cat, walking around the house with a bag on his head. It is maybe the most awesome video on the internet:

Well, here is the hedgehog version, via reddit:

Also, here is a video of Maru playing with a box:

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