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Amy Walker's Accents Video
via RB | Upcoming | min 3 by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped shared by 6 peopleActress Amy Walker posted a YouTube video of herself doing a large variety of accents. This video ended up copied on Break.com, hitting the Digg frontpage and accumulating 450,000 views. I asked Amy a couple of questions via email.Did you originally upload your videos to YouTube? I noticed your YouTube accents video received 4,100...
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Do coat hangers sound as good as Monster cables?
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 02, 2008
The cables made by Monster Cable (the company that enjoys suing other companies that have the word "monster" in their name) sound no better than coat hangers, according to a man who ran a blindfold test to compare the quality of audio running through each. Can you tell the difference between music that passed through a pricey Monster stereo Cable, and a coat hanger? A reader forwarded us a post...
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Where Are They Now: M*A*S*H Characters
via Neatorama by Alex on March 02, 2008
What happened to the cast of M*A*S*H? Miss Cellania wrote this neat post on YesButNoButYes:Although the Korean War only lasted three years, the cast of M*A*S*H was with us every week for eleven years. The final episode on February 28, 1983 was the most watched episode in American TV ever, drawing 106 million viewers, or 77% of the audience that night. It’s been twenty-five years since we said...
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NBC Unveils Fear Mongers
via SCI FI Wire by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
NBC announced a list of well-known directors, actors and writers for its upcoming horror anthology series Fear Itself, including John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Darren Bousman (Saw II, III and IV) and Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason).
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Ram Dass - Fierce Grace (2001)
via Google Video - Top 100 New Videos by (author unknown) on October 21, 2007
Ram Dass - Fierce Grace (2001)1 hr 33 min - Oct 22, 2007Mickey Lemle's documentary Ram Dass, Fierce Grace is a portrait of Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), author, 60s guru, spiritual teacher, cohort of Timothy Leary, & author of Be Here Now, one of the most influential books of the 1970s. The film begins in the present, as Ram Dass deals with the effects of a massive stroke he suffered in February...
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American Idol: David Archuleta: Imagine (High Quality)
via Latest Links for Milkandcookies.com by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
David Archuleta on American Idol singing Imagine by John Lennon.
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EA Takes The Sims Online Into the Web 2.0 World
via GigaOM by Wagner James Au on February 25, 2008
Electronic Arts has redubbed it “EA-Land,” but it’s The Sims Online relaunched for a new era: free, web-based, even some user-created content. Originally launched in 2002 as a multi-player spinoff of their astoundingly popular casual-crossover Sims franchise, EA (ERTS) expected the online version to do blockbuster sales, only to find it overshadowed by Second Life and other Web 2.0-era...
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Patients at the Cleveland Clinic will test ... [Newsflash]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 20, 2008
Patients at the Cleveland Clinic will test having their medical records stored on Google Health for online access, according to AP. Check out leaked screenshots from the upcoming service here. [via]
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Remove Noise and Grain from Photos with Noiseware CE [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 20, 2008
Windows only: Noiseware CE (Community Edition) isn't a multi-tool editing suite for your digital photos—it only wants the bad ones. Specifically, Noiseware provides a set of filters that sweep through pictures with a lot of digital "noise" (think under-lit night-time shots) or artifacts (digital errors). The default filter will work for most photos, making them look crisper and cleaner, but...
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Reduce Screen Time with 52 Nights Unplugged [Distractions]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 11, 2008
Writer and self-described internet addict Ariel Meadow Stallings wants to be "more present in the present," and for her that means reducing the amount of time she spends in front of the computer/TV/phone screen. To do just that, she's started a new, year-long project called 52 Nights Unplugged. The rule is simple: once a week, for one night, she doesn't do anything involving a screen. ...
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