Wired has a nice guide on how to burn a DVD on your Mac. It pretty much relies on www.mactheripper.org/ which I’ve mentioned here a few times before. It strips off restrictions like region encoding and other dumb stuff that companies like to force on us for no good reason.
To then copy back to disk [...]

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Huge and pretty wooden mansions, makes you wonder why they were abandoned.
In Kostroma region of 550 km from Moscow in the north-east, near the city of Chuhloma are remarkable terema 2, to hide o between forests and abandoned villages.
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Tags: Abandoned, forests, mansions, moscow, russia

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This is just great. I’m a LOL cats fan as I’ve had cats all my life. I’m not sure what my 3.5yr old is going to think of this though ;)
meow, you can has lolcats. presenting tubbypaws new happy papercraft of the deity of lolcats, ceiling cat. He is watching you right now so please [...]

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Via the LA Times, George Lucas admits that Han did indeed shoot first :)

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Oh airships, why did you never become the default way to travel? Oh, yeah, explosions.
I get the feeling that if this had gone through we’d have been seeing a lot more of those explosions …
Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships
CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the aid of rigid [...]

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Security is what I do, it’s how I earn my living - and it is odd. You end up thinking about the world in a completely different way to other people. I’ve walked into meetings before now and asked questions that no-one else has asked during the whole lifecycle of the meeting. It’s caused more [...]

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10 Bodie, California
9 San Zhi, Taiwan
8 Varosha, Cyprus
7 Gunkanjima, Japan
6 Balestrino, Italy
5 Katoli World, Taiwan
4 Centralia, Pennsylvania
3 Yashima, Japan
2 Pripyat, Ukraine
1 Craco, Italy
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Tags: Abandoned, centralia pennsylvania, craco italy, gunkanjima, japan, pripyat ukraine, taiwan, varosha cyprus, yashima

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I love these huge free ebooks that come out where one geek imparts the depth of knowledge that only geekery allows. This time it is for Star Wars:
How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star
Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
Did he really have a [...]

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