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Link: HAND BRAKE – Spoke Magazine This was featured on Close Up a couple of nights ago. Pretty gruesome biking injury.

The most beautiful seatbelt advocacy commercial ever (via lrebelatto)

Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video

Our copy of Hungry Caterpillar has crayon scribblings and torn pages, but I’d rather read from this to my daughter over a digital version.

What does the future hold for broadband in New Zealand and why do we need another fibre cable across the Pacific? These and many other questions will be answered at Unlimited Potential’s UPLoad broadband debate. Meet some of the luminaries behind the New Zealand telecommunications industry and find out about what better broadband might do […]

mac: Excellent iTunes tip. dwineman: iTunes tip: if, during a restore or a particularly long sync, it looks like it’s stuck on the “Optimizing photos” step, click the tiny Play button at the left side of the LCD. That should toggle the display to show what it’s actually doing (probaby copying your entire Streisand collection, […]

Those hooking up the latest MacBook Pros to an HDTV using an HDMI adapter can now do so a little more easily: Apple has updated its implementation of Mini DisplayPort to pass audio signals through to any device that supports them. New MacBook Pros support audio over Mini DisplayPort

Disciplining young children is one of the key jobs of any parent — most people would have no trouble agreeing with that. But whether or not that discipline should include spanking or other forms of corporal punishment is a far trickier issue. Study: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior

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