Over 200 New Yorkers recently walked into one of the busiest train stations in the world, New York's Grand Central Station, and at exactly 2:30 pm, all froze in place. There's one guy in the video who froze just as he was stooping down to pick up some scattered papers. Talk about commitment. Link. Thanks, […]

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Quicktime is a both a great platform for video and a great playback engine since it supports a very wide range of video codecs. However, there is room for improvement. VLC can play even more video with winder codec support. Enter, Perian, the Quicktime Component you've been waiting for. Perian will play all types of […]

This spring we noticed that we had some tomato plants growing the front yard flower beds. We didn't plant them– they're volunteers and are growing vigorously, despite our lack of care over the summer. Our non-efforts were rewarded with 4 tomatoes totaling 5 pounds. They are most likely Brandywine heirlooms judging from their shape and […]

PIXELATOR is a “video art performance collaboration” that aims to bring closer the ability of displaying ones own creativity on an otherwise clostly and unreachable medium. The site includes a nicely done one camera- one artist video and instructions on how to lo-fi your own hi-fi set. Link. Via the Byte Cellar.

I found a reasonably priced compact fluorescent bulb that is also dimmable with standard incandescent dimmers. Most are not compatible with dimmers and thus ones that do are expensive. I only ordered four to start with for the studio. The bulbs are rated at 23 watts, each replacing a 85 watt flood. The new bulbs […]

I found this site while reading the comments forum on the Autoblog RR of the Day: 1972 Austin Mini, mentioned by UCBert. This extensive collection is located in Madison, GA but has a nice online virtual tour for those of us too far away. The microcar, a vehicle born out of need, was a child […]

I bought Jim and myself one of these each for our cars. It's a small plastic flexible fresnel lens that enables you to see objects above the top of the windshield with ease. Both of our vehicles tend to hide the over-intersection lights here so this helps tremendously. Under $15 shipped. Link.

When I turned on my trusty NitroAV Vanguard V RAID box this morning, I wasn't greeted with it's normal two-toned happy beep. Instead, it began to beep over and over with a matching red LED for drive bay 4. This is not how I wanted to spend my Sunday morning. Luckily, I've had this happen […]

Why is it sometimes the most obvious escapes us? A quick way to save money on your energy bill today is to start hanging your laundry outside to dry instead of using the clothes dryer. I found it very rewarding this weekend after I successfully dried six loads of laundry outside, each taking about the […]