Web Clips for 6/21/09

A project with the goal of making the internet less stupid.

That much forwarded double pic illusion. You know, the one that doesn't cite any sources. Still, it's a cool pic.

Some aggregated linux humor.

A little old but great article on why the airline industry is so fucked up. Sans Sienfeldian remarks (mostly).

Web Clips for 6/19/09

Turn your boring, default ubuntu into a mean motherfucking soldier of darkness. No-CD cracks for legal purposes. Awesome fractals from DeviantArt. A character that makes things backwards. The cell phone signal blocker. Now only $30 AND it blocks 3G.

Web Clips for 6/18/09

Yup, my idea of a substantive post is a game review. There will be more substance from other authors here soon.

Download Ubuntu Netbook Remix, it's a flavor of Ubuntu that's optimized for (you guessed it) netbooks. I'd highly suggest at least dual booting and giving it a try, there's a tweaked GUI that makes great use of the little screen real estate you have, as well as a whole bunch of other netbook-centric features. Most people also report a longer battery life. It's also easy to install from a flash drive. Check it out.

A really great 404.

An online database of keyboard shortcuts.

lol, graffiti.

some sweet firefox wallpapers.

And Jonathan Coulton on personal productivity and GTD over at lifehacker.

Web Clips for 6/8/09

For those of you drafting a political speech, a lorem ipsum generator.

A usefull list of defenitions to some common (and some intermediate) BitTorrent terms.

Staying along with the quotes theme, some classy insults.

And finally, build a simple linux home file server.

Simple DVD Burning in Linux with DeVeDe

I usually use DVD Flick to convert, author, and burn dvd's in windows and until recently, in Linux too with wine. Unfortunately, the latest version wasn't working for one reason or another, and I decided to look for an alternative, perhaps something Linux native (I've only brought my laptop home for christmas break and it runs Linux. XP drivers aren't available for it so my only choices were Linux or Vista). Anyway, I've always found authoring and burning a DVD natively under Linux to be a little complicated, if not just plain anoying. Not that I don't roll up my sleeves and break out the CLI when things need to get done, but come on. I'm on vacation here, and if there's a simple way where I can just click through a few menus and go watch TV then I'd rather do that.

Enter DeVeDe: a fairly-simple-yet-still-powerful authoring tool that only requires around five dependencies. You pick your titles and files, select your options in a faux-wizard format, and boom. An .iso ready for burning and watching. There's even options for creating DVD menus for chapters and episodes, and a good amount of the advanced options for bit rate and such can be found. A really nicely done program overall. It's apparent that a lot of thought was put into making the program easy to use without leaving power users in the dark. There's also a Windows version that might even pry me away from DVD flick. Happy burning. (All images from the DeVeDe website)