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Living Room / WikiRebels: an unbiased (IMO) and informative doco on Wikileaks
« on: December 18, 2010, 11:37 PM »
I'm not posting this in the Wikileaks petition thread because I think it's a must-see and don't want it going unnoticed in an older thread.

It's an indepth (nearly an hour long) look at the organization and puts the whole WL phenomenon into perspective.


WikiRebels - The Documentary

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Living Room / Shiny Disco Balls
« on: June 15, 2010, 04:39 PM »
It's 1979. An 8 year old boy who thinks Abba, Boney M and some cutesy pop songs comprise the world's entire music collection is being looked after by a teenaged friend. The teen drags the kid along to a friends house. It's night, the house lights are switched off and a bunch of kids are dancing to blaring music that sounds completely alien to the kid. It's nothing like he's ever heard before, it's the best f***ing thing he's ever heard and he realizes how COOL, cool can be. What he doesn't realize is he's just had his first taste of electronic music - the man behind the music, 30 years ahead of his time... an Italian, Giorgio Moroder. Decades later, very few know him... (the man is now 70 and he looked like a mustache pete even in his prime) but very few have escaped the music he influenced... from fly-by-night electropop bands to giants like The Chemical Bros.
 
Presenting, for your listening (but certainly NOT viewing) pleasure... Mr.Giorgio Moroder...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OU7Hka_--U
  
 

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General Software Discussion / An app to manage 'open device with' boxes
« on: July 27, 2009, 02:33 AM »
Is there a program that'll let me have control over these boxes? XP has always been whimsical, in my experience, when it comes to these things.

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For instance, in the screenshot above there's no check box for 'always open with'. 

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Living Room / DRM hits a new low as Amazon hits the delete key
« on: July 18, 2009, 04:12 AM »
This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/

Here's the quirky part - both Orwell books are freely downloadable Down Under.

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General Software Discussion / Google Browser - No, Not Chrome! (what's that?)
« on: June 18, 2009, 01:22 AM »
A street survey conducted by Google in NYC. I'm sure things don't get much better in other places.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

So, what's your browser? I'm into flapjacks.

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