• Serenity Movie – Chinese by Story – Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary
  A site that breaks down the Mandarin phrases used in the Serenity universe. One of my favorites:

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  “WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to”
  “I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone”
  River, continuing to pray in Chinese after breaking into English [novelization, p. 207]

  (tags: serenity firefly mandarin chinese languages)

• CC – Games > The Space Game
  (tags: games)

• The man…The Machine…STREET HAWK!
  (tags: tv 1980)

• Recycle Ann Arbor
  (tags: annarbor diy thirftstore)

Ug, really?

The Swivet [Colleen Lindsay]: Law & Order UK! (No, I’m not kidding!).

After a couple of weeks with a new Dell Studio XPS 13, it was obvious that it was not the laptop for me. Don’t get me wrong, it was a fine machine, but with Vista 64-bit and my complete inability to succesfully “upgrade” it to Vista Ultimate 32-bit (yes, I tried to wipe and re-install).

So, with little hope but a “worth a shot” attitude, back to Best Buy I went. After a quick chat with the most helpful people at the Lohr Road (thanks Stefani and Ken!), I swapped the Dell for a MacBook (last of last year’s models); never had to pull out a card.

So far, I’m still getting used to the MacBook. The keyboard layout is just different enough that I keep hitting the Caps Lock key instead of “a”, and I do miss the backlit keyboard, but so far so good.

I’ve never actually owned a Mac before, so this is going to be an interesting trip.

• How To Import Vob Files Into Premiere – Wrigley Video Productions Forum
  Steps to import VOB files into Adobe Premiere
  (tags: video premiere)

As with previous years, the SXSW music has been released to the ‘net. And, like last year, it was up to the fans to seed a torrent of the 5 gigs of music (because it’s too hard for the organizers to promote their own event, apparently).

Well, the seeds are up and available for your downloading pleasure. Get them here.

[via Metafilter]

• Fox News “war games” the coming civil war
  “In one sense, all of this drooling rage is nothing more than the familiar face of extreme right-wing paranoia…”

  This has to stop. Propaganda has changed to hate speech.

  (tags: foxnews neocons politics)

• InstallingUbuntuOnADellXPSM1330 – Ubuntu Wiki
  (tags: ubuntu laptop)

• Engadget's Netflix HD streaming shootout – Engadget
  We LOVE the Netflix streaming service, but the Xbox fan running while watching is driving me nuts. This review isn't pushing me to buying another device, though.
  (tags: netflix)

Dear Amazon,

Fix this:

$0.99  x 10 < $9.99. I know it's less than a dime, but come on. How hard is it to write a check for this?