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Presumably, someone somewhere at one point used “shock and awe” when they wanted to say Blitzkrieg…
The RAD Video Tools are great. I used this to batch rip the audio streams of Wes’ quicktime files because QuickTime Pro refused to export the audio from the MP4/AAC audio track (it just exports the headers, it seems).
Interesting comments/followup on the Raed business.
For hiptop junkies:
- HowTo’s: Get SDK running on varoius OS’s
- Getting the SDK up and running on RedHat 8.0
- Setting up the SDK On Windows XP (The Quickstart Guide)
frotz has some hiptop development stuff. bananchunks has some screen shots.
Tales from the Two Towers: Victoria U Report – description of render farm, etc. Related: AWN: The Two Towers: Face to Face With Gollum
Right on schedule
from [tvbarn2] (Tue Mar 4 20:54:22 2003) (via jk)
A senior producer who shall remain nameless, at a major cable television news operation based in the southeastern United States which shall remain nameless, told me today with a wry confidence I found quite amusing that the “the war is scheduled for the evening of March 19th.”
Jimmy Breslin, Newsday.com writes about some Familiar, Haunting Words. (via rc3.org). At this point, I like to think we’re not quite there yet, but it seems we are heading down that road.
I asked a co-worker the other day, if it felt like this during the Vietnam war era. I was hoping that perhaps I was just missing the historical perspective and over-reacting. The gist of the response was that it was too early to really tell, although I have personal misgivings about it all… Back then they didn’t have the Patriot Act. I suppose history will tell.
I still get some interesting referers from the free_culture thing. Here’s one: Art and the Internet: What effect has the Internet had on Artists?
First person protest accounts up north:
- The Battle of San Francisco – Kevin Burton reports, w/ pictures
- ongoing coverage by Lisa Rein
- Raph gets arrested
Hardcopy – freeware Windows printscreen enhancement.