text 21 Nov Extracting DVD/Bluray without quality loss (re-encoding)

Using MakeMKV (available for Mac and Windows) you can easily extract tracks from encrypted Blurays/DVDs to MKV files. The interesting bit about this software is that no encoding is done. Eg, for DVDs, it preserves the MPEG2 stream intact. You can latter transcode it if you want (for file size reduction) but you will lose quality in the process.

http://www.makemkv.com/download/

MKV is a open/free format that can be read on all computers and many A/V devices.




photo 28 Aug

merlin:

Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be way, WAY harder to buy a Norwegian Black Metal album with your phone at 9:15 on a Thursday night.

Try THAT shit with yr StarTAC, smartass.




quote 25 Aug
When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just put the buildings in. They did not put in any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and built the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass.
— 

Larry Wall.

Such a wonderful idea.




quote 31 May
Procrastination is your brain trying to tell you something.
— Merlin Mann on Back to Work #17



quote 3 May
I believe that in the first place it is an ethical question from the human point of view to celebrate death as an instrument of resolution of a problem.
— Elias Jaua - Venezuelan vice president.



quote 21 Apr
When you see a good mover, look for a better one.



photo 3 Apr

Beautiful Shadows over Camelot “board”.




text 24 Mar Apple Data Center

Dan Benjamin from 5by5 network has devised a new corollary to Godwin’s law of Hitler analogies: As Apple discussions grow longer, the probability that someone will invoke the North Carolina data center approaches one.




photo 16 Mar

“Alive, we will stay, even without our homes.”




text 15 Mar Sendai 2011

According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the earthquake’s enormous strength shifted the Earth’s axis by 25 centimeters (9.8 in). This deviation led to a number of small planetary changes, including the length of a day and the tilt of the Earth. The speed of the Earth’s rotation increased, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds due to the redistribution of Earth’s mass.




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