Media Coder

I've been extremely busy lately and haven't posted anything, but I wanted to share my new favorite media-file toy: Media Coder.



It's an any-to-any (within reason) audio/video file transcoder. I love it because it can transcode any video file I throw at it into a Zen-friendly xvid file in a fraction of the time (and with better quality) than it takes the transcoding software that came with my Zen. And of course, if I'm posting it here it's 100% free. Check it out.

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

All the Movies I Saw for the First Time in 2007

These are all the movies, new and old, that I saw for the first time during 2007. Reviews are based on 4 stars.

1.Rocky (***1/2)
2.Lucky # Slevin (***)
3.Crank (**1/2)
4.Snakes on a Plane (**1/2)
5.Saw III (**)
6.The Night Listener (**)
7.Millions (***)
8.Unforgiven (****)
9.Hollywoodland (***1/2)
10. Babel (***)
11. Rocky II (***)
12. Stranger Than Fiction (****)
13. Zodiac (****)
14. Marie Antoinette (***1/2)
15. The Last Kiss (***)
16. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (***)
17. Dog Day Afternoon (***)
18. The Good Shepherd (***)
19. Children of Men (****)
20. Blood Diamond (***1/2)
21. Hot Fuzz (***1/2)
22. Deja Vu (***)
23. The Bone Collector (***)
24. The Queen (***1/2)
25. Shaun of the Dead (***1/2)
26. Curse of the Golden Flower (**)
27. Rocky III (***1/2)
28. Charlie's Angels (**1/2)
29. The Fountain (***1/2)
30. North by Northwest (***)
31. Spider-Man 3 (**)
32. 28 Weeks Later (***)
33. Breach (***1/2)
34. 1408 (***1/2)
35. Shattered Glass (****)
36. Black Snake Moan (***1/2)
37. Transformers (***1/2)
38. All the President's Men (***)
39. Say Anything (***)
40. The Number 23 (*)
41. The Simpsons Movie (***1/2)
42. Click (**)
43. Knocked Up (***1/2)
44. The Towering Inferno (**)
45. Disturbia (***1/2)
46. House of Games (***)
47. Akira (***)
48. 300 (***1/2)
49. Fracture (***1/2)
50. Tombstone (***)
51. The Host (***1/2)
52. The Lookout (***1/2)
53. Ghost World (***1/2)
54. Death Proof (****)
55. Next (**)
56. The Good Girl (**)
57. Bee Movie (**)
58. Planet Terror (***)
59. Sicko (****)
60. Talk to Me (****)
61. No Country For Old Men (****)
62. Ratatouilli (****)
63. The Mist (***)
64. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (***)
65. Rescue Dawn (***1/2)
66. Night at the Museum (***)
67. Ocean's 13 (***)
68. Live Free or Die Hard (***)
69. Waitress (****)
70. Superbad (***1/2)
71. Once (***1/2)
72. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (***)
73: The Bourne Ultimatum (****)
74: The Black Pirate (**)
75: Eastern Promises (****)
76: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (***1/2)

2007 Top 5 (Including Only 2007 Movies)


1.No Country for Old Men
2.Zodiac
3.Black Snake Moan
4.The Lookout
5.Death Proof


2007 Top 5 (Including All Movies Seen in 2007)


1.No Country for Old Men
2.Unforgiven
3.Zodiac
4.Children of Men
5.Black Snake Moan

Here's the 2006 List

Science and Faith Flow Chart

This greatly amuses me. Please click to enlarge.

The Ultimate Sudoku Marathon

At work today, I figured out how many years it would take to complete every single possible 9x9 soduko puzzle if you did one every 10 minutes (which is optamistic for most people) non-stop; and the answer is:

126,919,782,192,181,760 years (About 127 Quadrillion Years) To put that in perspective, that's roughly 9.7 million times the age of the universe.

And this is only taking into account the 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 (6.6 Septillion) possible solved puzzles, this does not figure in the seemingly infinite number you could arrive at if you figure in the combinations of different puzzles created by alternating blank spaces.

Imagine if I figured out 12x12 puzzles. Maybe I'll save that useless fact for next time.

New Dark Knight Poster

I'm a such a nerd

10 nerd points to anyone who gets the gag here.

Interesting article about "viral" videos

Viral videos aren't always viral...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos

Dawkins (Hearts) Jesus

This was too amusing to pass up posting. This is Richard Dawkins, scientist, friend of athiests the world 'round, author of "The God Delusion" and my all time favorite book "The Selfish Gene".

These Are so Stupid, and Yet Here They Are

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