HandBrake forked to MediaFork

The great thing about open source is where one person leaves, someone else can pick up and continue. It's been over a year since we've seen an update to the venerable Handbrake, despite the fact the author plead his case for people to contribute money so he could purchase an Intel Mac and continue updating it. Some one else has taken the torch and forked the project, now called MediaFork. I look forward to the changes and hopefully some bug fixes along the way.

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Making Snow at Home

While asking myself “how do ski resorts 'make' their own snow?” and after Googling the question, I came across a company that sells the tool to do just that, but on a smaller, more home owner-sized scale. Meet SNOWatHOME.com, a snow making stand that will set you back anywhere between $400-800 depending on size. This doesn't include the cost of an air compressor or pressure sprayer. Something tells me this is all just waste; wasting water, gasoline for the pressure sprayer and electricity for the air compressor. But still, I'd give it a try once (all in the name of science, of course).

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YouTube Dump

An interesting way to complete multiplication by drawing lines. Link

A guy shows off just how flexible he really is. There's no such thing as double jointed, is there? Link.

Rep. Ackerman (D) of New York with some interesting comments on gays in the military. (You might be surprised!) Link.