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Rainn Wilson, best known for playing Dwight Schrute on The Office, shot a 140-second film using a Nikon D5000 as part of his participation in the Nikon Film Festival. He talked with us about directing, pancakes and solar-powered, deer-meat grinders.
YouTube has released its most watched videos in Australia and around the world for the past 12 months, and the results aren’t overly surprising. It’s all about music…
Remember the girl whose MacBook was turned into Swiss cheese while she was travelling through Tel Aviv? There’s a happy ending, according to this interview, as she’s being reimbursed for her damaged laptop. Let’s just hope she stops behaving suspiciously.
Courting controversy, Danish designer Magnhild Disington has created a range of USB sticks covered in real fur, because without fur they’re “neutral in appearance and lack emotional appeal”. Err… okaay.
If you’ve got a DVR set up as part of your home theatre (and you should – it’s almost 2010 fer-cryin’-out-loud!) you’ll know that those things are always sucking up juice. Even in standby mode, they’re power hungry, ready to jump into action at a moment’s notice to record something for you. Well, Foxtel and Austar have decided to “invest millions of dollars” to improve their set top boxes (DVR or not) so that they are a lot more efficient and suck less power. They’ve even signed an agreement with the government to “make” them follow through with it.
Joseph Shoer is a Ph. D candidate in aerospace engineering, studying how modular spacecraft could be assembled and hoping that they will be the telescopes and human exploration vehicles of the future, and not for crushing the dreams of Martian colonists.
You want ASCII paintings? We got ASCII paintings! You want ASCII furniture? We got ASCII furniture! You want ASCII jewellery? Becky Stern’s got it for you: The I <3 You necklace.
The current number of developers for VLC on Mac is right around, um, zero. Not good for an open-source project powered by volunteers! So development on the 64-bit version has been stalled, and if new devs can’t be found, Mac VLC could end with version 1.1.0. Gulp. [MacNN]
Pepper Potts is smooching with Iron Man’s helmet, a crazy guy is waving even crazier whips, and things are going boom-Boom-BOOM! I don’t think I could get any more excited for this movie nor can May 2010 come soon enough.
