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Vintage cassette tape holds Apple I BASIC, killer modem tune
Fair warning: this here post is nerdier than usual, and those who begin to feel nauseous at the mere mention of data-bending may want to refrain from continuing on. For you brave, hardened souls that are following through, feast your eyes on the ‘first piece of software ever sold by Apple.’ The Apple I BASIC [...]
Giant UFO Attacks George W. Bush’s Texas Ranch
Air Force logs and government radar reports released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that a massive, terrible mystery aircraft barreled through the skies of Central Texas on January 8 — and it was headed for George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch at 2,100 miles per hour!
The Mutual UFO Network just released a long investigation [...]
Stickam Launches PayPerLive
Starting today, Stickam is allowing beta testers to charge for events broadcast via the live video streaming service. Dubbed PayPerLive, the service allows the host to schedule events and sell tickets, which can be purchased by viewers through PayPal. Stickam takes a share of the revenue generated from ticket sales – starting [...]
Internet TV Use Up 45% In Last Year
Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago.
Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May.
Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 million), who [...]
Embed YouTube Videos In High Quality
YouTube, by default, creates embed code that displays videos in relatively low quality.
Unfortunately, this is implemented with a hack. In the embed code, you have to tack on &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of video clip’s URL, both places it appears.
Here’s an example URL with the extra code:
<embed src=’http://www.youtube.com/v/zlfKdbWwruY&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″
This is completely unintuitive to implement - so [...]
Better Feed for WordPress: Now Even More Better!
The mother of all the feed plugins is back: Better Feed version 2.0 just hit the repository and it’s now even better than better.
For those who don’t know it, Better Feed allows you to highly customize your feed, adding basically anything you’d like below each item: a copyright notice, an ‘Add to delicious’ link, a [...]
Belkin BreakFree: MacBook MagSafe Cable for Your Guitar
The BreakFree is Belkin’s fix for crazy rockers who can’t get through a set without ripping up their amp or guitar’s cord jack by flailing around too much. One part of the $20 two-piece kit fits in the axe’s cord jack, while the other goes to the cord itself, and you can rock safe knowing [...]
Microsoft Spending $300+ Million To Tell Consumers Vista Doesn’t Suck
Hey Apple. Microsoft’s seen those Get a Mac ads with J. Long and J. Hodgman. They’re tired of that shit. So tired, in fact, that they’re going to spend some $300 million in their own advertising campaign with Crispin Porter + Bogusky telling consumers how much Vista doesn’t suck. Corporate VP of Windows Consumer Product [...]
