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One of the somewhat interesting features of Google Video is now that you can put video from Google into your webpage. Here’s a Snowman video from WGBH Boston, and below you can see the player embedded in a web posting. Deleted the video player Something about WordPress insists on rewriting the contents of my post […]

Last night, I upgraded my Linksys WRT-54GS router to DD-WRT, a more flexible set of firmware with greater capabilities.  It seems to work just fine, and includes many neat additions, such as the ability to adjust the router output power, new security measures, telnet and ssh access, improved QoS routing, and all sorts of other […]

As Tom Duff put it: Finally, after years of sitting on their robotic asses, Lego is showing Lego Mindstorms NXT this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Check out the announcement. Pretty neat! I could arrange for this guy and my Robosapien to battle to the death!

I was looking for a nifty gadget to embed audio players inside WordPress posts. This was a nifty Audio player WordPress plugin that uses flash to play audio files. You can create simple links, and it creates a nice little Flash gadget to stream and play them. Here’s one that links to my last podcast […]

Actually, you don’t need a range. This recipe has shown up in my inbox twice today, so I guess I have to blog about it. Ellen Spertus has a nice recipe for making your own Floam on her website. What is Floam you ask? (I apologize in advance to linking to the annoying Flash infomercial). […]

I bought Carmen a video iPod a few weeks ago, and she loves it. You can apparently play video on a regular TV, but you need a special Apple video cable to do so. Or do you? According to the guys at MacDevCenter, all you really need to do is realize that the special Mac […]

I just noticed that there was a new version of The Core Pocket Media Player available. When I upgraded my Dell Axim x50v to Windows Mobile 5, TCPMP no longer seemed to use the accelerated graphics hardware, which this new release seems to cure: it again has support for the accelerated chipset. Unfortunately, AAC support […]

BoingBoing ran a short bit about the publication of a book after my own heart: Retro Gaming Hacks by O’Reilly. My own project just requires a bit more work, which I am going to get to this weekend. Really.

Raphael Assénat created his own reprogrammable cartridge for the Sega Genesis so that he could give a try at writing his own homebrew games. I’ve seen his webpage before, in particular, his experimetns with webcams. Good stuff. Hardware-wise, the Genesis is kind of a cute computer: It’s got an 8Mhz 68000 processor, 64KB of dedicated […]

I took one of the Superman cartoons available from archive.org and tried various command line tools to make a version that would play on the iPod video. I seemed to have a bit of trouble getting ffmpeg to write a .mp4 file that Quicktime/iTunes liked, so eventually I used ffmpeg to write a raw .m4v […]

Just in case you got tired of showing off Desparate Housewives on your new video ipod, you can surf on over to archive.org and download some of their feature films to help fill those gigabytes. Some worthwhile classics: Night of the Living Dead, film noir classic D.O.A. and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Simply download […]

Well, my wife and I are coming up on our 11th anniversary of our first date, an important holiday which she leveraged to get me to buy her a new video iPod, which she’s had for a couple of days. Expect a podcast in the next few days (recorded not in my car, but in […]

Apple announced some stuff. Their website is slow, probably a good sign. Carmen already wants one of the new black iPods.

I spent some time this weekend playing around with Free World Dialup. What is that? FWD allows you to make free phone calls over any broadband connection using devices that follow current accepted Internet Standards. This can be a “plain old telephone” with an IP adapter, an IP based phone or any number of free […]

My Cyborg Name: Make your own. Thanks Carmen for pointing this one out.