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The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library

Some of you might not know this site. Over at angryalien.com, there's a bunch of flash movies, all named "INSERT-MOVIE-TITLE-HERE in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies", e.g. The Exorcist in 30 seconds,...

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Paranoid? I'm not paranoid! Which of my enemies told you this?

Scary, funny, and old, but this ACLU pizza ordering video makes you start to think. For example, it makes you start to make an educated guess at how much of this is already possible today. I'm not...

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I ordered the new video iPod today

Yes, that's right. I have ordered one of those shiny new video iPods today.I was never impressed too much by all this Apple hype going on all around me. In fact, I have never owned any Apple product...

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Stuff Roundup

Here's a bunch of smaller updates which probably don't warrant extra blog posts, but might be interesting nevertheless:On the right-hand side of my homepage you now have three new blocks which should...

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Revver - Got video? Get paid!

Hm, more food for my video iPod which hasn't arrived yet.Revver ("a Flickr for video") is a new video publishing community site which allows you to upload, share, watch, and tag videos for free. You...

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It's here

Don't ask me why, but my video iPod has unexpectedly arrived yesterday instead of sometime next week as I was told. But hey, who am I to complain?Quick notes:Sound quality is great, videos look...

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Initial Linux support for the 5g video iPod - video sync using gtkpod /...

OK, so I spent some fun time playing around with my 5g video iPod— time for more serious action now.I have created two patches today which add support for the video iPod to gtkpod, a GTK+ based,...

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2005 Machinima Festival This Weekend

The 2005 Machinima Festival will be taking place in New York City at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, starting November 12.Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Machinima: Machinima (a...

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Linux Videoblog Clients Roundup [Update]

Hanno Böck asks which free clients are available for receiving and subscribing to video podcasts, videoblogs, vlogs, vodcasts or whatever you want to call them.I was asking myself the same question for...

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Kitty - a podcast / video podcast / vlog client for KDE

I have ITP'd the podcast / vlog client Kitty, yesterday. I had a look at various vlog clients recently and Kitty seems to be really nice.A Debian package should be available in a few days, I already...

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Video: Richard Stallman jamming with Gilberto Gil

OMG! I would have never believed this if I hadn't seen the videos with my own eyes: Richard M. Stallman of GNU and Free Software fame singing various songs, and Gilberto Gil, famous musician and...

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iPod as RSS reader?

I noticed iFeedPod, which seems to be an RSS Reader for the iPod. It sounds like it syncs the feed items from your computer to the iPod for "offline" reading. I really like the idea, but the...

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How to watch videos from your 5g video iPod on TV without buying the Apple...

I stumbled over a very nice article over at MacDevCenter which explains how to use a cheap, standard A/V-to-RCA cable to direct the video output of a 5g video iPod to your TV.That's sure something I...

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kitty, a Qt/KDE based RSS podcast and video aggregator, is now in unstable

As mentioned earlier, I wanted to package the KDE videoblog client kitty for Debian. I finally found the time to really do it, and the package has entered Debian unstable a few days ago. The first bug...

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Stuff IV

Finally. I finished the Battle for Wesnoth campagin Heir to the Throne. If you're interested you can download replays of my games (425 KB). Level 23 is missing, as I accidentally deleted the replay...

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Stuff V

I have started looking into SELinux on Debian recently. SELinux provides mandatory access control for Linux, which gives you great control over which process may do what with which files, other...

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Democracy Player 0.9.0 - one step closer to world do... a very cool Internet...

Democracy Player 0.9.0 has been released yesterday, which has been announced in quite a number of places already, e.g. Boing Boing.It's available for Mac, Windows, and Linux; if you're on Debian...

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Why voting machines suck and undermine democracy [Update]

If there are electronic voting machines where you live, and you've ever considered using one of those... well, you should probably reconsider.In this CNN report (M4V video, 13 MB) Avi Rubin explains...

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Creative Commons remix culture - a practical example

As you might know I publish some of my photos in my photoblog and on flickr under a Creative Commons license. A very cool example of the so-called remix culture"happened to me" recently — one of the...

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Tagesschau Video Podcast Archive?

Does anybody know about any archive of the Tagesschau Video Podcast (German TV news)? I'm collecting the videos, and I missed the shows from November 8th and November 13th, and they only provide 7 days...

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LinuxBIOS talk video recording from FOSDEM 2007

Highly recommended for anybody who might be even remotely interested in LinuxBIOS:There's a video recording (OGG, 234 MB) of the LinuxBIOS talk at FOSDEM 2007 by LinuxBIOS-founder Ron Minnich.The talk...

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Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and others using Linux [Update]

Many online video sites such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Metacafe, and others only provide limited or inconvenient access to the videos; either they require you to install the proprietary...

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Updated Miro (previously Democracy Player) packages in Debian unstable

FYI, my new Miro packages (formerly known as Democracy Player) have now reached unstable.After lots of ugly, ugly trouble with even getting a successful build (boost/python/dbus related, you don't want...

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Redirecting audio to a remote host using esddsp

There are situations where you might want to redirect some audio you're playing on your local computer to another computer's speakers, potentially in a different room, or even anywhere on the...

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Big Buck Bunny video and soundtrack under Creative Commons license

Just in case you haven't yet watched it: Big Buck Bunny.Great animated video created mainly using Blender, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.The soundtrack/score is now also...

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Miro has finally entered Debian testing (again)

Yay, finally! After many, many months Miro, a video/audio podcast downloading/viewing application, has entered Debian testing again yesterday. For a very long time one issue after the other kept Miro...

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Miro 2.0

It's been announced at quiteafewplaces, so you probably already heard about it: Miro 2.0, the new major release of the cross-platform Internet RSS audio/video aggregator and player has been...

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Help add subtitle support for Miro

If you ever wanted to support an open-source project but you are not a programmer, here's one (of many possible) ways to help:The Miro project (Internet TV / Video and Audio Podcast application for...

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FOSDEM 2010: coreboot and flashrom devroom and talks

Quick public service announcement (which probably comes a bit too late, sorry):There's a coreboot developer room at this year's FOSDEM (Free and Open-Source Software Developer's European Meeting),...

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Miro 3.0 released, Debian package available

Yep, the new major release, Miro 3.0, of the cross-platform Internet RSS audio/video aggregator and player has been released.Please check the release notes and the feature list for details. Overall...

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