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Vote for my short! at Film Racing | ave Makeup, Will Travel - Vote For Us

2009-06-19T10:17:00.003-04:00

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Film Racing | Have Makeup, Will Travel

The Atlantic: Happiness

2009-06-15T19:34:00.003-04:00

This month's issue of The Atlantic takes another perspective on happiness, highlighting a study - The Harvard Study of Adult Development - that began in 1937. It offers a much-more nuanced look at what determines happiness. Among its more interesting details is an examination of how our defense mechanisms

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness

Comfort Wipe Commercial

2009-06-14T22:35:00.001-04:00

Uuuuh...

100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

2009-06-11T02:46:00.001-04:00

Linux: Find ip of known MAC address

2009-06-10T13:36:00.003-04:00

Useful for DHCP only networks where you can't get a reservation and have multiple machines (laptop / desktop) and you reservations are short. Requires nmap, and nmap must run as root to get the scan the subnet and get the MAC. Copy and paste this into a script file.

#!/bin/bash
# enter known values
other_mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 <-- change for the mac of the machine you want to find
subnet=1.2.3.1-254 <--change for your subnet

# don't modify from here on down
# set current date stamp
prefix=`echo $subnet | /usr/bin/cut -d "." -f1`

# find the mac of wanted pc with nmap and get current ip
# requires nmap, and nmap has to run as root, you can add your account to sudoers with visudo
# username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nmap
newip=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/nmap -nsP $subnet | /bin/grep -B1 -i "$other_mac" | grep $prefix | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f2 | egrep -iv "[a-z]|[A-Z]"`

#do whatever you want here, add to your hosts file, launch command with ip, etc...
#vncviewer $newip -compresslevel 0 -quality -5
echo $newip

Ubuntu Jaunty: Gmail as default mailto: handler

2009-06-08T18:50:00.003-04:00

First, make Firefox 3 use Gmail for sending page links (right click Send Link) and handling mailto: links.

Open Firefox
Click Edit/Preferences
Click Applications
Find mailto: and change to "Use Gmail"

Now make Ubuntu Jaunty (Nautilus really) use Firefox to handle email.

On your desktop toolbar, click System/Preferences/Preferred Applications
On the "Internet" tab, Mail Reader, change to Custom
In the "Command" box type: firefox %s
Click close to save your new settings.

Test it by sending your self an attachment from nautilus.

Right click on any file and click "Send to..."
Change Send as: to "Email (Evolution)"
Put email address in the Send to box.
Click Send.

Ubuntu Jaunty: Getting WMV to Play

2009-06-05T11:07:00.006-04:00

Add the medibuntu repo's and get them approved

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

install smplayer and the supporting codecs and libraries

sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2 mozilla-mplayer smplayer

that should do it. if you are not running jaunty, just rename the jaunty bits to your distro on medibuntu, that "should" work.

UPDATE
Alternatively, install this package (which I haven't tested) to play and record most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV, including both standalone files and content embedded in web pages. (should work for Jaunty, Ibex and Hardy)

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm

2009-05-28T21:05:00.001-04:00

We are all wankers.

Leonard Nimoy on the Spock "Star Trek" Vulcan Salute

2009-05-18T18:51:00.001-04:00

Oy. vey!!! Who knew!!!

Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music

2009-05-18T18:12:00.001-04:00

Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music

Also for some original royalty free music visit:

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers

2009-05-10T20:52:00.001-04:00

New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers

Nerds…

Building a better Google query

2009-05-10T20:21:00.001-04:00

Building a better query

How to Search Google and get the results you want

Obama defends, curtails National Day of Prayer -- chicagotribune.com

2009-05-06T23:40:00.001-04:00

Obama defends, curtails National Day of Prayer -- chicagotribune.com

YouTube HD Camera Trick Challenge

2009-05-04T22:33:00.001-04:00

Chunk of Wisdom

2009-04-21T20:03:00.001-04:00

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert Heinlein

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix

2009-04-19T23:43:00.001-04:00

Cat Shit One Movie Trailer - The Animated Series

2009-04-19T16:41:00.001-04:00

Live Action Pacman

2009-04-19T16:31:00.001-04:00

PAC MAN (REMI GAILLARD)
by nqtv

Free flash based video conferencing

2009-04-19T15:34:00.001-04:00

Free, instant, and disposable two-way video chat! | BoostCam.com

RFT: IMPROV ON INFINITE EARTHS pt. 1 (of 7)

2009-04-17T13:40:00.001-04:00

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

2009-04-17T10:13:00.001-04:00

The Holy Gospel of Christopher Cringle

2009-04-11T11:42:00.001-04:00

The Holy Gospel of the Easter Bunny

2009-04-11T11:41:00.001-04:00

Rep. John Shimkus: God decides when the "earth will end"

2009-04-04T01:44:00.001-04:00

This, on the other hand, is terrifying.

Encouraging news!!!

2009-04-04T01:33:00.001-04:00

ARIS 2008 Report: Highlights - American Religious Identification Survey 2008

The "Nones" (no stated religious
preference, atheist, or agnostic)
continue to grow, though at a much
slower pace than in the 1990s, from
8.2% in 1990, to 14.1% in 2001, to
15.0% in 2008.

Dammit, this country can only get better if this trend continues - finally positive news for our society and the world. Now, if could just get rid of those pesky...