This looks like it could be an interesting tool. Don’t know if it can take a video off youtube, then allow you to comment over it in text and voice, will have a look laters.Mojiti.
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Light-gun game from 1936 – from Boing Boing
this has just blown me away, a light-gun game from before World War II.
Cory Doctorow:
1936 saw the introduction of the first-ever light-gun game — a duck-hunting game from a company that specialized in vacuum tube jukeboxes.
Ray-O-Lite Rifle, Seeburg, 1/36, a duck shoot game, this rayolite gun game is the first light activated gun games. Seeburg was a company with an engineering departments focused on the design of vacuum tube amplifiers and gearing systems for jukeboxes. It was no surprise then that when the electric eye light sensing vacuum tube was introduced in the early 1930s that the Seeburg design teams would introduce a light ray game.(Thanks, Rich!)
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Obiligatory New Year’s Resolutions post
Right, let’s get this down and out of the way. Lose weight, give up the fags, cycle more, take more photos, learn more things, blog more, pay off some debt. That should do it.
It is odd, I always take a bit of a dip around December, get less motivated than usual. I’m pretty sure now, having had it happen for a few years very consistantly, it is S.A.D. or just getting fed up with too much darkness. It was much better this year, given that I felt more aware of it, but it was still there. Now is the time to say it is past, push on, and get myself going again I reckons.
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Great picture of Oxford Street at Christmas
epengfei posted a photo:
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Our new leader has been born – Creative Bits
Be afraid. Be Very Afraid.
No doubt he's the chosen one. The Apple birth mark is proof that nobody can deny. All hail!
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Old FBI memo: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is commie propaganda – Boing Boing
Boing Boing bring the dangers of Jimmy Stewart to our attention.
Xeni Jardin:
FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic "It's a Wonderful Life" was Communist propaganda. About the FBI memo titled "COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY," Blogger Will Chen writes,
I love It's a Wonderful Life because it teaches us that family, friendship, and virtue are the true definitions of wealth.
In 1947, however, the FBI considered this anti-consumerist message as subversive Communist propaganda (read original FBI memo).
According to Professor John Noakes of Franklin and Marshall College, the FBI thought Life smeared American values such as wealth and free enterprise while glorifying anti-American values such as the triumph of the common man.
Link. 1947 was the same year in which the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) began investigating suspected Communist influence in Hollywood. This led to the blacklisting of many directors, writers, and other talent. More background on that: Link.
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Slam Dunk Contest 2006
I could watch slam dunks all day, some great ones here, but nobody is doing the 720 dunk I’ve seen elsewhere on youtube. Click on read more to view the clip.
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R. Kelly makes a casting call – TV Squad
From Julia Davis at TV Squad, the best news we could possibly have at Christmas, there may be new installments to the absolute classic “Trapped in the closet” – flotsky
Filed under: Industry, Music and Variety, Celebrities, MTV
Christmas came early at my house. An online casting call has been posted for a continuation of R. Kelly's hip-hop opera Trapped in the Closet. In the summer of 2005, Kelly released the first five chapters of Trapped in the Closet as music videos, each ending with a cliffhanger, on MTV and BET. Unable to contain his genius, Kelly introduced a sixth chapter for the MTV Video Music Awards in 2005 and an additional six chapters on DVD in 2006.
Next to K-Fed's rap career, Trapped in the Closet is one of the greatest acts of unintentional comedy to be unleashed on the music-listening public in the past several years. His commentary track is comedy gold, and the chapters have been parodied by Jimmy Kimmel, South Park, SNL, MADtv, Upright Citizens Brigrade and Weird Al. Even his fans have referred to the "hip-hopera" as the "Plan 9 of music videos."
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Google Drops Beta Tag from Blogger – Neowin.net
Google Blogger now not Beta, I hope this means they won’t now screw up the blogs of people that transfer to the new service. I’ve had to try to help a few people that have had that problem, and it ain’t no fun – flotsky
Google Blogger has officially left its beta tag behind. Google bought Pyra Labs in 2003 and introduce the beta version of "Blogger" last August. The Blogger web site now introduces "the new Blogger" on its main page. The new interface offers drag-and-drop template customization, permissions features for priavet blog entries, additional RSS feed options, the ability to tag posts with keywords, an updated Blogger dashboard and instant publishing. Some, but not all, bloggers that signed up before November 10 can transfer over to the "new Blogger" without losing their blogs after they sign in under the "Old Blogger" page.
View: Google Blogger
News source: Ars Technica
