All About Anything

FairUse DVD Ripper Free for a Limited Time

2008-03-16T18:09:00.001-04:00

Grab a free copy of the normally-$20 DVD ripper FairUse Wizard 2, which converts DVDs to video files playable by a slew of devices.

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Do NOT Turn Jesus On

2008-02-21T22:12:00.001-05:00

Do NOT Turn Jesus On.
Originally uploaded by sepultura

Hmmmm... well this is a very creepy light switch cover. It appears to be Jesus showing off his manhood to two children. I hope the person who made this didn't mean to make it look that way.

CNN fired a producer for writing a blog

2008-02-19T20:31:00.001-05:00

A former CNN producer vents his frustration over his sudden termination for keeping a blog and also weighs in on the corruption in the mainstream media. Great article. To truly get understand the message of this story you have to read the whole thing. Enjoy!

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The Nerd Handbook

2008-02-07T19:44:00.001-05:00

"A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.

It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, “Been there, done that”. We’ll explore the consequences of this seemingly short attention span in a bit, but for now this project is the other big thing your nerd is building and I’ve no idea what is, but you should.

At some point, you, the nerd’s companion, were the project. You were showered with the fire hose of attention because you were the bright and shiny new development in your nerd’s life. There is also a chance that you’re lucky and you are currently your nerd’s project. Congrats. Don’t get too comfortable because he’ll move on, and, when that happens, you’ll be wondering what happened to all the attention. This handbook might help.

Regarding gender: for this piece, my prototypical nerd is a he as a convenience. There are plenty of she nerds out there for which these observations equally apply."

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Volunteer Firefighter Charged With Lighting Several Blazes

2008-02-07T19:08:00.001-05:00

"An 18-year-old volunteer firefighter who has been charged with setting a series of fires in northwest Indiana told investigators he set at least two of the blazes so he could be called to put them out, according to court documents."

I actually knew this kid. You think you know a person...

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The Censored Count

2008-02-05T19:14:00.000-05:00

Once again I have brought another fine and hilarious video to this blog. Remember the Count? From Sesame Street? Well, someone took this clip from Sesame Street made for preschoolers and made it kind of NSFW. It bleeps out the word "count" in order to make you think the Count is really saying something else. I'll let you figure out what that word is for yourself. Though you might want to turn the volume down a little. It's not hard to figure out what they are bleeping out.

Randall Munroe of xkcd Endorses Obama

2008-01-28T21:13:00.001-05:00

"I want, for once, someone I can vote for not because I dislike the other candidate, but because I’m proud of mine. Obama is the real thing." -Randall Munroe

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Astronaut Self-portrait Over Earth

2008-01-21T00:05:00.001-05:00

Astronaut Self-shot Over Earth
Originally uploaded by eric.genn

This photo is amazing. It is a self-portrait of an astronaut in space over earth. This picture is truly out of this world. This causes me to ask this question. Do you need to use the flash in space.

Hello, World... again.

2008-01-18T17:39:00.001-05:00

This blog has gone through some changes over its year history. Different themes, templates, elements have been added and removed. Today marks a milestone in All About Anything history. This is one of the biggest site redesigns I've done yet and this being one of the first posts in months it needed a big redesign. This new template expands the post area and shrinks the extra stuff on the side. I've removed the various clutter from the sidebar like the About Me, Twitter, etc. I added a links section and a cool stories section. I've also included a labels area where you can click on a label of a topic that interests you and be instantly greeted with a variety of posts from the past year. The blog has gotten a lot brighter. This is the brightest it's been I think. I went for a clean white theme that's easier on the eyes than past themes. I hope to post more than I've been. The blog seemed to get away from me for awhile and I hope to pack in more original content and hot stories. Anyway, enjoy the blog.

Questions, comments, complaints? Drop me a line the comments.

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Revision3 Launches New Website

2008-01-18T16:50:00.001-05:00

Revison3 just launched their new site and also will begin releasing Diggnation to everyone, Fridays at 7:00PM EST.

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Nintendo DS Lite Redesign Ready For Christmas

2007-11-15T18:29:00.001-05:00

Evan Wilson, an analyst from Pacific Crest Securities believes that a redesign of the Nintendo DS is complete and ready.

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Scroogled (by Cory Doctorow)

2007-09-17T16:19:00.001-04:00

A story of what would happen if Google gave user data to government agencies. Pretty interesting. Usually I don't like to read long posts but this one was good enough to keep me reading.

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30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

2007-09-17T11:36:00.001-04:00

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.

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DefCon 15: To Catch an Undercover Dateline Reporter

2007-08-06T18:05:00.000-04:00

This is funny. This is absolutley hilarious. I'm laughing hysterically right now. Alright, apparently NBC sent a Dateline reporter to DefCon this year. Now at DefCon you can get a pres badge and do your reporting there and everybody's happy. But this reporter decided not to. She decided to sneak in with a hidden camera and pose as one of the hackers there. First of all, at DefCon, women cannot be found. Anyway, she was discovered to be a fake and during a press conference she was ousted and then escorted out to her car by a herd of DefCon attendees who were badgering her and taking her picture the entire walk back. It is said she was undercover to catch people committing crimes there (UPDATE: She was there trying to find undercover federal agents for a Dateline special). Here's the video:

StepMania: Chocolate Rain

2007-08-02T09:35:00.000-04:00

This is amazing. Somebody went out there and remixed Chocolate Rain into a StepMania dance game. It's really cool. But I'm getting the feeling that the creator of this watched G4's Attack of the Show the day the hosts told us about Chocolate Rain and an Internet gang called "Anonymous" as in the beginning of the video he said "I did it for the lulz" which was talked about during the part with "Anonymous." Anyway enjoy the video. It's amazing.

Chocolate Rain

2007-08-01T19:08:00.001-04:00

If you haven't seen this already you have to. It's absolutely amazing.

Go "Green" with your PC

2007-08-01T16:24:00.000-04:00

You all probably know about the little apps and tips to help cut down on the power your computer. From adjusting screen brightness to heavy duty tweaking with your hardware. A new application from Uniblue Labs makes protecting the environment even easier. The program's called "Local Cooling." It helps you control everything from when your monitor switches off to when your hard drives shut down.

Once you grab the executable from localcooling.com it's a quick and easy install. After installation, a small little icon for Local Cooling will sit in the tray.
Clicking it will open a small little window showing how many trees you saved, how much fuel you saved, and how many kilowatt hours you saved.

If you click the settings link it'll allow all sorts of customization options for tweaking your computer's power settings.

You can also register on the localcooling.com site and see how you rank with other users.
All in all, it seems like a cool application. It doesn't seem like it slowed down my computer much, but we'll have to see what happens when I boot up tomorrow morning. I recommend everyone to check it out at localcooling.com.

P.S. Screenshots by the new application Jing from jingproject.com.

Feedburner

2007-08-01T14:30:00.000-04:00

Hey all! I've just subscribed to Feedburner today and started burning this blog's feeds. Now it's easier than ever to subscribe to this blog's posts. On the right hand side you should see a link to subscribe to the feed. Just click it and do whatever you need to do to get it up and running on your feed reader. Anyway, I hope everyone likes the new feeds and let me know if there's anything I can do to make this blog better.

-APer

The Benoit Tragedy

2007-06-26T20:17:00.000-04:00

As most of you probably know, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel were discovered yesterday in their home dead. The investigation regarding the while Benoit Tragedy, as I'm calling it, is still ongoing and there are many details being released and each news site I go to says something a little different. So I'm going to try and compile all the details and all the latest news here into one story. So I'll start at the beginning when we first heard of this terrible atrocity.

It all started early yesterday when friends of Chris started receiving odd and mysterious text messages. His friends became worried about this and notified the WWE. The WWE then notified local law enforcement in Fayetteville, GA. They police went to check on Benoit and his family and that's when they found the Benoit, his wife, and his son dead. They were all found in separate rooms. Nancy Benoit was found in a home office strangled with an electric cord. Daniel was found in his bedroom smothered by a bag. And Benoit was found in the weight room, hung by a pulley on an exercise machine. The authorities would not release any details at the time except to say that no one was shot. The WWE was notified of the situation and they cancelled RAW for that night and replaced it with a three hour tribute to Benoit. Mr. McMahon rose from the dead and made a statement to the public. Here's what he said:

An autopsy was done today to find the answers to what really happened. It was concluded that it was a double-murder suicide. Apparently Benoit killed his wife on Friday on Saturday and his son was killed either late Saturday or sometime Sunday. It is still being discovered when they were actually killed. On Sunday, Benoit was supposed to participate in the WWE Pay-Per-View of Vengeance. He called rather last minute saying he had a "family emergency." Then Monday afternoon Benoit committed suicide probably distraught over what he had done. Once the WWE found out about Benoit killing his family and committing suicide they pulled all tributes from their website and only had one story following the story of the Benoit Tragedy. Investigators found anabolic steroids in his home. These can cause paranoia, stress, and violent outbursts called "roid rage." It is believed he had been taking these drugs which caused him to go into "roid rage" and kill his family and himself. I'll provide more details here on this post as they become available so stay tuned.

UPDATE: I just heard that next to Nancy's and Daniel's bodies were Bibles. Also Nancy was bound at the wrists and the ankles. According to Wikipedia, Nancy was killed on Friday, Daniel on Saturday, and Benoit killed himself late Saturday or early Sunday. This is still up in the air as I'm hearing different stories of when who died from the sources I've been checking.

The Walls Are Rebuilt

2007-06-07T16:40:00.001-04:00

After much outcry from grass-root fans and a whole lot of peanuts, CBS has brought back Jericho. I know. I couldn't believe it either. I was so excited a began sending text messages to all my friends who also enjoyed the show. Turns out that a lot of people do enjoy the show. So many that they rallied together via the Internet and organized an attack against. These grass-root fans send thousands of peanuts to the CBS offices in New York and Los Angeles. Obviously the peanuts are meant to represent the lack of sanity of the heads of CBS. All the peanuts forced CBS to give in and order seven more episodes of Jericho meant for a mid-season replacement in 2008. So now I leave you with a letter CBS released to all fans of Jericho:

__________________________________________________________________________

To The Fans of Jericho:

Wow! 

Over
the past few weeks you have put forth an impressive and probably
unprecedented display of passion in support of a prime time television
series. You got our attention; your emails and collective voice have
been heard.  

As
a result, CBS has ordered seven episodes of "Jericho" for mid-season
next year.  In success, there is the potential for more. But, for there
to be more "Jericho," we will need more viewers.

A
loyal and passionate community has clearly formed around the show. But
that community needs to grow.   It needs to grow on the CBS Television
Network, as well as on the many digital platforms where we make the
show available.

We will count on
you to rally around the show, to recruit new viewers with the same
grass-roots energy, intensity and volume you have displayed in recent
weeks.

At this time, I cannot tell
you the specific date or time period that "Jericho" will return to our
schedule.  However, in the interim, we are working on several
initiatives to help introduce the show to new audiences.  This includes
re-broadcasting "Jericho" on CBS this summer, streaming episodes and
clips from these episodes across the CBS Audience Network (online),
releasing the first season DVD on September 25 and continuing the story
of Jericho in the digital world until the new episodes return. We will
let you know specifics when we have them so you can pass them on.

On
behalf of everyone at CBS, thank you for expressing your support of
"Jericho" in such an extraordinary manner.  Your protest was creative,
sustained and very thoughtful and respectful in tone. You made a
difference. 

Sincerely,

Nina Tassler

President, CBS Entertainment

___________________________________________________________________________

-APer

New Interface for Embedded YouTube Videos

2007-06-07T14:56:00.001-04:00

Hey Everyone! YouTube has done some rearranging and some reprogramming and some adding and subtracting and all that and what they've come up, well I think you might be pleased. YouTube has redone the interface for embedded videos that people like me post on their websites, blogs, etc. Go check a few of them out on the page here. What do you notice? Maybe you can run your cursor across the side and the bottom and click the Menu button. Notice anything? Yes new little doodads. The first thing can be found on the sides which I have no clue what it does. Two arrow like things pop up. When I click on them while watching one of the Blaze videos it just restarts the movie. Maybe it's different for other videos.  Next thing is at the bottom. You should see little thumbnails of other videos. This is like when you finish a video on YouTube it shows other movies you might like. The other deal is with the Menu button. When you click it the video screen gets shrunk and an Embed and URL button appear allowing for you to link the vid to other places. I like this new feature from YouTube. It's very slick and hopefully soon we'll see ads. YouTube videos are plastered everywhere on the Internet. Think if Google put ads on their. The person who uploaded the video could make money and so could Google. Right now the whole revenue sharing thing like that is sort of very exclusive so it's kind of in beta but I hope to see that come to us in the near future. Anyway, until then.

-APer

Some PSAs from All About Anything

2007-06-07T09:12:00.001-04:00

-APer

Ad-Aware 2007

2007-06-07T08:53:00.001-04:00

Lavasoft has officially launched Ad-Aware 2007. It has a slick new interface with all the features it has before and it's powerful scanning capabilities. I installed it today and I'm running a scan. So far it found 59 things! 59! And if you know me I'm pretty careful about keeping my computer free of malware and the like. Anyway, go pick up your copy of Ad-Aware for free at lavasoft.com.

-APer

Shared RSS Feeds

2007-05-24T17:22:00.000-04:00

Hey ya'll! Just added a new little gadget to the blog here. It will have a constantly updating list of cool and interesting stories from my fave RSS feeds. Figured that this way is easier then writing a post everytime I find something cool. To read a story just click it and enjoy!

-APer

Sparks Flies

2007-05-24T17:13:00.001-04:00

The season finale of the 2007 season of American Idol was just as the other ones. They remember weird and kooky characters from the auditions, sing a few tunes, and name the new American Idol. The only different this year was the two contestants, Jordin Sparks and Blake (I forget his last name). They performed wonderfully and it ended up with Jordin Sparks taking the title of American Idol. But do you think she was truly the American Idol? I mean Melinda Doolittle was the best in my opinion. Were sites like votefortheworst.com the cause for some of the good contestants downfall or were those who fell just not good enough? You tell me. All in all none of that matters now because now the dust has settled and Jordin Sparks emerges the winner.