Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

Free video solutions for mac and windows.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies.MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.

MacMod.com - Your Mac Modification HQ - Discharge a CRT

MacMod.com - Your Mac Modification HQ - Discharge a CRT: "After grounding the tool, you will want to place the probe under the CRT cap and make contact with the metal clips that hold it into place (see fig. 2 and 3).� This will discharge the CRT and make the display ready to service.�� If you see sparks, then you know the display has been discharge, but also you have not let enough time for it to dischargen naturally.� Next time you discharge this particular display, double the amount of time you waited e.g. instead of 10 minutes wait 20 minutes. �

Pretty much, discharging a CRT is taking a probe from under the CRT cap to a ground on the chassis so you don't get shocked. "

I, Pencil | The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty

I, Pencil | The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty: "“None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them never saw a pencil and would not know what it is for. Each saw his work as a way to get the goods and services he wanted—goods and services we produced in order to get the pencil we wanted. Every time we go to the store and buy a pencil, we are exchanging a little bit of our services for the infinitesimal amount of services that each of the thousands contributed toward producing the pencil. "

Reason Magazine - The Life and Times of Milton Friedman

Reason Magazine - The Life and Times of Milton Friedman: "When Milton Friedman stepped forward on December 10, 1976, to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from the King of Sweden, he needed bodyguards. His moment of glory was marred by a mob of protesters outside gathering to condemn Friedman’s alleged complicity in the crimes of the military regime ruling Chile, which allegedly lived and died according to his theories. One heckler even slipped inside, shouting “down with capitalism, freedom for Chile” from the balcony."

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe: "A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language."

JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1

JNC, Barton-Wright, Self Defence with a cane part 1: "Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions (PartI)
By E.W. Barton-Wright [EN1]
From Pearson’s Magazine, 11 (January 1901), 35-44."

Bill Gates keeps close eye on kids' computer time - Yahoo! News

Bill Gates keeps close eye on kids' computer time - Yahoo! News: "Gates said he and his wife Melinda decided to set a limit of 45 minutes a day of total screen time for games and an hour a day on weekends, plus what time she needs for homework."

Macleans.ca | Bewitched by boarding schools

Macleans.ca | Bewitched by boarding schools: "A friend of mine had a rather unsatisfactory meeting with his publisher the other day, apropos his latest manuscript. 'It's too English,' was the verdict. 'Ah, right,' said my pal and was heading back to the old drawing board when he suddenly remembered: 'Hang on. What about Harry Potter?'"

Super Deluxe Tuckbox Template Maker

Super Deluxe Tuckbox Template Maker: "Custom tuckbox template generation. Based on the custom tuckboxes designed by Elliott C. Evans."

Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
"AUSTIN — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers."

14 Hewlett-Packard Company Secrets From A Former Employee - Consumerist

14 Hewlett-Packard Company Secrets From A Former Employee - Consumerist: "13. HP's Beta Software website is at: http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/. Only beta because it hasn't been put on the distribution cds yet. A lot of drivers here will do stuff that the installation cds won't. Also has fixes. HP maintains similar unadvertised websites throughout their system...

14. http://www.hp.com/pond/pnp Point and print = a new hp toy."

The Musical Touch of Leonard Nimoy

The Musical Touch of Leonard Nimoy: "Just about everybody who's anybody on the Internet has seen Leonard Nimoy's music video, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. However, little has ever been established about when, where, and why it was made. In a Maiden Wine exclusive, we have found answers and more. And the Earth-shattering news is: the video that we all know and love is an edited, abbreviated version of the original video! After decades on the shelf, the world can now enjoy the full version of this legendary production, with an introduction to the song, complete instrumental break, and the ending in its entirety.

As to the origins of this video, we can now say with certainty that it was originally created for the ABC summer replacement series, Malibu-U, hosted by 'Ozzie And Harriet' TV star, Ricky Nelson. The show was a beachy version of American Bandstand, with musical guests who all performed on the sand. In the episode featuring Nimoy (as well as Mrs. Miller and The Buffalo Springfield!), the Bilbo clip was introduced by Ricky as a musical number designed to push your funny button. So for those of you who have seen the video and said, 'Was he serious?!', the answer is, no, he wasn't. It's supposed to make you laugh."

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker: "DVD Flick is a free, open source DVD authoring tool that will take care of pretty much all of the legwork involved in authoring your DVDs. So thank the gods of open source and go download it here.

In order to make a DVD that you can play on your DVD player, your video files need to be encoded in MPEG-2 format. What makes DVD Flick special (aside from the fact that it's free) is that it handles all of the necessary transcoding of your AVI, MPG, MOV, and WMV files (among others) to MPEG-2, and then authors and burns your DVD all in one fell swoop - meaning it's very simple for anyone to use."

TaxProf Blog: 2007 Index of Economic Freedom

TaxProf Blog: 2007 Index of Economic Freedom: "The Heritage Foundation has published the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom, measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, including tax rates and property rights [a description of the 10 freedoms is below the fold].

The 10 Most Free Countries (and their freedom scores) are:

1. Hong Kong (89.3%)
2. Singapore (85.7%)
3. Australia (82.7%)
4. United States (82.0%)
5. New Zealand (81.6%)
6. United Kingdom (81.6%)
7. Ireland (81.3%)
8. Luxembourg (79.3%)
9. Switzerland (79.1%)
10. Canada (78.7%)"

LED Shoppe - The cheapest online store of LED, LED Product & Computer Accessories.

LED Shoppe - The cheapest online store of LED, LED Product & Computer Accessories.

bunnie’s blog � Blog Archive � Akihabara, Eat Your Heart Out

bunnie’s blog � Blog Archive � Akihabara, Eat Your Heart Out: "Ten years ago, Akihabara was the place to be for the latest electronics and knick knacks and components. I’m convinced the new place to be is the SEG Electronics Market in Shenzhen (although to be fair I heard there is a competing market in Korea that’s supposedly even better–the Japanese test-market their stuff there even before they try it in Akihabara!)."

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine: "But a growing body of research—and a new study from the trenches of the New York public-school system—strongly suggests it might be the other way around. Giving kids the label of “smart” does not prevent them from underperforming. It might actually be causing it."

Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton

Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton

PodSafe Audio - Podsafe Music under the Creative Commons license for Podcasting

PodSafe Audio - Podsafe Music under the Creative Commons license for Podcasting

"We invite you to browse through the songs and artists on this site and download anything that strikes your fancy. The artists on this site have released their music under the Creative Commons license and agreed to allow their music to be used by you in any way and form for webcasting, as long as you don't take credit for the original work. We hope you will find something that will be useful to you in your Pod Cast!"

Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - How to Cure Health Care

Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - How to Cure Health Care

Amazing flame fractals take your breath away | TechRepublic Photo Gallery

Amazing flame fractals take your breath away | TechRepublic Photo Gallery: "Witness the beauty and elegance of mathematics with 50 breathtaking fractals. Webshots member rajah created these Fractal Flames with Apophysis--a freeware Windows application with which you can design and render fractal flames. According to http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/ and http://www.flam3.com/, Fractal Flames were created by Scott Draves in 1992 and are an 'extension of the iterated function system class of fractals'."

Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye

Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye: "Bye-bye Windows! My three-month Macintosh trial has ended, but my permanent gig with the Mac is just getting started. Apple's MacBook Pro and Mac OS X are now my computer and operating system of choice.

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protein_synth.mp4 (video/mp4 Object)

protein_synth.mp4 (video/mp4 Object)

Principles of Economics

Mankiw 2e: "

Although the study of economics has many facets, the field is unified by several central ideas. The Ten Principles of Economics offer an overview of what economics is all about."

Reason Magazine - Why Health Care Isn't Fair

Reason Magazine - Why Health Care Isn't Fair: "My family, for example, gets health insurance through my wife's employer, and it costs�...actually, I have no idea what it costs. That's one of the problems Bush wants to address by eliminating the tax code's bias in favor of employer-provided medical coverage, which distorts the insurance market, promotes insecurity, and raises health care costs.

This bias was created more or less by accident. During World War II, businesses competing to attract scarce workers got around wage and price controls by offering health insurance instead of higher pay. In 1943 the Internal Revenue Service decided not to count this increasingly popular fringe benefit as taxable income, a policy codified by Congress in 1954."

Read, I, Pencil: Library of Economics and Liberty

Read, I, Pencil: Library of Economics and Liberty

"None of the thousands of persons involved in producing the pencil performed his task because he wanted a pencil. Some among them never saw a pencil and would not know what it is for. Each saw his work as a way to get the goods and services he wanted—goods and services we produced in order to get the pencil we wanted. Every time we go to the store and buy a pencil, we are exchanging a little bit of our services for the infinitesimal amount of services that each of the thousands contributed toward producing the pencil.

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"It is even more astounding that the pencil was ever produced. No one sitting in a central office gave orders to these thousands of people. No military police enforced the orders that were not given. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another—yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago."

Riehl World View: The Polar Bear Pic They Won't Show You

Riehl World View: The Polar Bear Pic They Won't Show You: "Mother polar bear and cub on interesting ice sculpture carved by waves. photo � Amanda Byrd."