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Mom’s Recipes - a photoset on Flickr From Mighty Girl, a great Flickr stream.

Super Special Questions Blog: This Is Not a Rebel Song! This Song Is–27 Jennifers! Wow - based on Mike Doughty’s excellent snapshots and that more than a few of my favorite live performances of all time were recorded there, I’m thinking I really have to go see someone play at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Too bad I missed Mike, I’ve really been getting into his solo stuff.

HDSource: REVIEW - AVeL LinkPlayer 2 (Part 1) - HD Articles and Reviews for Consumers and Producers HDV HDTV Technology is a double-edged sword. The new mass communication medium of the internet has changed the dynamics of business. One of the better changes has come in the consumer electronics world. In the past, it was pretty much impossible for a ’start up’ consumer electronics product to get any kind of foothold (or sales) unless they were some sort of boutique high-end product covered by enthusiast magazines. In today’s world, word of mouth is king again and if a small upstart produces a great product, it’s pretty easy for the consumer snowball to start rolling. Electronics technology has advanced to the point where even consumer audio/video products, once in the analog domain, are now based on increasingly more software-centric foundations. The benefit there being that development and manufacturing costs are dropping (replacing bad code isn’t nearly as expensive as replacing a bad capacitor).

An upshot of all this is that there’s a new wave of very capable multimedia devices being released in the consumer arena (versus pro-sumer audio/video/techno-phile) that have amazing feature sets AND are easy enough to use that they pass the ubiquitous WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) test.

So if you’ve checked out the wiki, you know I spent an rather large amount of time and money on ‘improving my digital lifestyle’, which primarily revolved around making a home media server and playback PC. The playback PC is a huge, loud AMD 64 box running Windows XP that’s easily the largest component I’ve ever owned and is a far-from-perfect solution, but it plays pretty much anything I have stored on my media server in nice 1080i output.

Well, along comes I-O Data with their LinkPlayer network DVD player. It’s basically an HTPC in a DVD player’s clothing. The LinkPlayer can handle standard DVD/CD media, data DVD media with files stored on them, and can connect to a PC-based server and browse/playback files from that (using http-based server software - there’s flavors for Win32, *nix, OS-X, and several 3rd party solutions). Supported video formats include MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG2-TS, MPEG4, DivX, XviD, and WMV9 (in both standard and HD resolution) supported audio formats include MP3, MP2, AAC, WMA1, WMA2, WMAPro, PCM, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV . Firmware is updated over the net and new features/formats are being added all the time. The player can output at 1080i and up-samples everything with a rather great picture (far better than my cheap Sony DVD player and almost as good as my Panasonic RP-51). All from a pretty standard-looking DVD style remote.

I picked one up and it’s pretty much dialed in after just a few hours of messing around (and that was mainly trying out different web front-ends). It’s easy enough that my roommate’s wife can use it. Now to figure out what to do with the old HTPC box.

What Is Video Bandwidth?

Here is a description of almost everything videophiles may want to know about video bandwidth. Bandwidth applies to all circuits, all cables, and even all switches used with audio and video and other electronic signals.

3eyes - Lapjuicer It’s a.. uhh… well.. ya put a lemon on it, see… and uhh… well…. yeah… it makes juice.

we make money not art: The camera you can make reeeeally long pictures with A digital camera that you can mount on a moving vehicle and take an infinitely long panorama shot with as you’re moving. The software stitches the images together automatically. There’s even a special printer (not required) that can dump the panorama as one long image.

Millionaire Playboy %u2122 : Toys: Odd: Plush Face hugger and Chest Burster Geez, the Wish List is getting full. How cool are these though!

we make money not art: A tele-tactic game of submission and fun

The rules are simple. Once players get within about 10 meters (30 feet) of each other, they can shock other players by pressing buttons located in their headband. Those around them get a jolt of between 80 and 120 volts, depending on their distance. Or if you really want to hurt your opponent/friend, Taser Tag delivers an electric shock to his head the closer you get. But you get shocked, too.

the odk - o c t o p u s d r o p k i c k ! J-culture blog I’m diggin’ on.

crates and barrels Kegs and boxes seem to be one of the more universal storage types for video game power-ups. Crates and Barrels presents an online visual archive of power-up containers.

Vauxhall Keycase From Mr-Jones, a keycase that reads galvanic responses of the person attempting to open it and only opens if they’re sufficiently excited.

Bluetooth Cellular Squirrel :: Blueserker :: Berserk about Bluetooth No, really. This one does. It picks up your call via bluetooth connection and pre-screens callers. If the call is deemed important enough, the squirrel will let you know. Creepy. Spooky. So on my Wish List.