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  • Simple guide to burning an .AVI to DVD in OS X 10.4.11

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    Here’s how I burn .avi files to DVD. For a guide to why this guide exists, scroll down. You can click the pictures to make them bigger. 1. Get ffmpegx. It’s free and marvelous. Install and follow all the instructions. 2. Open your .avi and set it to convert to .mov. I accepted all the…

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  • Revelations

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    Twitter: Woah – you mean email can help you do stuff? Not just rain down tasks you’ll never do like dirt on your coffin? I DID NOT know that!

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  • Obamarama

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    I’m glad the right guy won. Sarah Palin was starting to freak me out. It’s only a few short hops from electing officials who can’t string a sentence together to this: So. Nice one America. See also: Jason Kottke’s election map run through. I like the New York Times, the BBC’s and FiveThirtyEight’s has a…

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  • Link: How to get a girl

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  • Jabba the Katz

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    Had a win in the pub quiz last night – here’s a Katz cartoon. Katz backstory and Flickr set.

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  • Huh? What the…?

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    You fell asleep watching a DVD. We’ve all been there. Pretty good selection, with Arrested Development and Shaun Of The Dead.

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  • Summer Heights High

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    In celebration of me figuring out how to embed small youtube videos (it’s actually really easy, how I LAUGHED!), here’s a clip from Summer Heights High. It’s created by Aussie Chris Lilley, the guy behind We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian Of The Year. Enjoy.

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  • My future car

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    I’m not that into cars. Hey, I’m on my second Nissan Primera. But no-one with a passing interest in the really fucking wicked couldn’t not fall in lust with the Holden GTR-X concept. Behold.

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  • My garden is going to kick your garden’s arse

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    So this year, I’m growing Tomatoes for the first time ever. My garden consists of six Tomato plants (Tommy Toe and Dynamo), one bucket of Potatoes, and a big-arse Rosemary plant so far. They were my first ever father’s day gifts (awww!). I really want to get a big-arse Basil plant and a big-arse Coriander…

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  • Heavy going

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    David Foster Wallace killed himself at the weekend. I should really attempt Infinite Jest again – I stalled at about the 600 page mark. It’s probably not one for the bus, in fairness. Dave Eggers reckons it takes a solid month. Two links – Roger Federer as religious experience. And one from The Onion.

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