scratchings

December 16, 2006

Looking for a video? Search 60 video sites (YouTube, gVideo...) at once.

Metatube is programmed to search 60 video sites to find the video you want. So if something isn't on YouTube, you can search 59 other sites easily. Which is awesome when something you wanted to show your buddies gets taken off YouTube.

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Photoshop CS3 Preview - The New Interface

Photoshop guru Deke McClelland delves into one of the biggest changes in Photoshop CS3 - the new Interface.

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Time Person of The Year: It's You!

YOU were named TIME magazine 'Person of the Year' Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as 'blogs', video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace... You -- YES, YOU -- beat out candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Ki

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By Popular Demand: 50 More ’80s Commercials

Seems that Giant magazine forgot more than a few entries when they compiled their list of the 50 top commercials of the 1980's. After a lot of user submissions, they present the 50 most requested (and missing) ads!

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Top 10 Movie Trailers of 2006

IFILM picks their top 10 movie trailers of 2006. Debate and discuss!

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Gonzo--Detailed Description/Review of New Hunter S. Thompson Book

Only 3,000 printed/$300 each. This brief article offers a glimpse of the beautiful and rare book. Intro by Johnny Depp.

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The Full Length Shrek The Third Trailer is Now Online

Looks cool!

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All a TV writer wants for Christmas

A top 50 list of Christmas wishes, including one of my favourite bits of unobtanium; The Complete WKRP DVD set with the original tunes. Sadly there's some 4 letter Grinch preventing this from happening.

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TuneGlue° | Relationship Explorer

Relationship mapping of bands/artists. On site type in an artist, and click the circle that pops up representing that artist. When you expand, tuneglue will generate a web of similar-sounding artists.

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Beat Any Parking Ticket! Don't Ever Pay Again!

This youTube Video demonstrates how anyone can contest any parking ticket that they get from when a parking meter runs out of time. This exposes a serious flaw in the parking meter system. City governments are being greedy and "Taxing" citizens unjustly with parking tickets that they don't deserve, learn how you can defend yourself.

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Buzz Aldrin Talks About UFO during Apollo 11

Apollo 11 is the mission that put man on the moon. About halfway into the trip, the astronauts spotted a strange object. Buzz Aldrin talks about what they did and having to hide it from NASA to stop any panic. We hear conspiracy theorists talk about UFOs all the time, but hearing someone as famous as the 2nd person on the moon is slightly different

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Have you ever wondered where the government spends all your money?

This giant detailed graph shows exactly where all your hard earned tax dollars are spent. Did you know the army spent 638 million dollars on bullets for 2007, and 10.2 BILLION on missile defense but only 11 million for the Office of Government Ethics? LOL pretty awesome.

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The rising use of SWAT teams is bad, but it's about to get worse.

In 2005, for example, Baltimore's Cheryl Lynn Noel, a mother and churchgoing woman, was shot to death when she mistook raiding police officers for intruders. She was holding a legal handgun when they kicked open her bedroom door. That raid was conducted after police investigators found marijuana seeds in the family trash.

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Largest Order Ever of Rolls Royce Phantoms Delivered (Pics)

"The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong has been shuttling guests to and from the airport and around town in Rolls-Royce automobiles since 1970, when it took delivery of a then-record seven Silver Shadows. Today, the Peninsula outdid itself, taking delivery of fourteen long-wheelbase Phantoms built to custom specifications through RR's Bespoke program."

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