YouTube + last.fm mashup

5:56 PM, May 7, 2008

This is possibly mankind's finest achievement.

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Celebrate the love (yub nub)

9:54 PM, May 4, 2008

Happy Star Wars Day everyone.

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In-Fury-ating (hoho)

3:15 PM, May 1, 2008

If you want to be kept in the dark about who's got a cameo in Iron Man, one suggests one doesn't look at the signage outside The Embassy as one walks in, lest one is spoilt.

Edit: and, shock, could said Embassy be the victim of a campaign of deliberate disinformation? Or is the director just playing around? He is, after all, so money and he doesn't even know it.

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Greasemonkey script for TVNZ ondemand

12:21 PM, April 22, 2008

(Apologies if you've seen this on PAS already).

I've recently had a bit of a tinker with writing my own Greasemonkey script for Firefox which links directly to the flash video (FLV) files on the TVNZ ondemand site. This means instead of poring through your browser cache, you can actually download the files directly to whatever folder and watch them later on. Allegedly this might actually get around the geo-restrictions that stop ex-pats overseas watching it, but I couldn't possibly comment for obvious reasons.

FLV files can be watched in VLC which, of course, you're using as your default video player.

I haven't managed to test this on as many clients as I would have liked but it appears to work in Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10. The resultant page should look something like this.

This was originally written with Media 7 in mind but it appears to work on all the "free" shows on TVNZ ondemand (e.g. recent episodes of Shortland Street) so I've changed the @includes to, erm, include all of the TVNZ show "skins". Let me know whether you have any issues with it.

Edit: on consideration, it would probably help if I linked to the user script in question.

Edit #2: alternatively, download it from userscripts.org.

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Doctor Who: it's like 1963 all over again

2:37 PM, April 16, 2008

Fat creatures called the Adipose? Fire creatures called the Pyrovile? It's like Terry Nation (he of "Skaro" and "Marinus") is writing for the series. Shabby shabby shabby.

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One-sentence restaurant review: Zarbo (Wellington)

9:03 PM, April 13, 2008

If you're a fan of long queues, bewildered staff and lukewarm lasagne you have to send back, you'll love Zarbo!

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*mimes amusingly*

9:51 AM, April 9, 2008

David Tennant needs to stop acting with his chin.

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