August 2004

Watching Laserdiscs in the Digital Age great, detailed, new(!!) article by Josh Zyber on dealing with the problems trying to get laserdiscs’ analog video to look good on modern digital monitors… wish we had had this article when we went shopping… in our case (large-ish, much loved laserdisc collection and seven players; less than a…

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http://www.jinx.com/scripts/stickers.asp?affID=-1 some of the best are.. Social Engineering Specialist because there is no patch for human stupidity stop laughing. computers are cool now. talk nerdy to me this is NOT my boyfriend’s computer it is pitch black. you are likely to be eaten by a grue i was young, i needed the gold pieces that…

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http://features.engadget.com/entry/1882345133499767/ there is much to agree with in both the article and the comments thread… as an added bonus, there is a great anti-microsoft rant in a user comment… among the highlights: If you told a stranger to Earth what they get away with on the desktop, they’d think their babelfish was broken.

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