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Hiro Nakamura: Actor… Coder


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 26th, 2006 in Entertainment

teleporter1ok.jpgPublished in Wired magazine, here's the story of Hiro, my most favorite character on the show Heroes.

Millions of viewers of NBC's Heroes know actor Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, the bored young Japanese office worker who discovers he has the power to alter time and teleport. What they probably don't know is that he's been working behind the scenes for years as one of Industrial Light & Magic's top programmers.

In an ensemble cast that features solid acting all around, Oka steals the show every time he's on the screen. The show literally has his Hiro living out the exploits of his own comic book, 9th Wonders.

Since graduating from Brown University in 1997, Oka has worked on more

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Poor Timo


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 23rd, 2006 in Humor

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David Blaine Street Magic (On Youtube): A Must See of Course


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 15th, 2006 in Humor

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Can You Draw Better?


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 12th, 2006 in Awesomeness

Check out this is a painting on a pavement in the middle of some street.batman.jpg

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Marine Letter Home. The Truth About Iraq.


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 7th, 2006 in Stuff

Posted in TIME magazine recently, this original letter from an anonymous marine is a must read. Here it is:

The Secret Letter From Iraq
A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in "Dante's inferno," has been circulating through generals' in-boxes. We publish it here with the author's approval

Written last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was initially sent just to a small group of family and friends. His honest but wry narration and unusually frank dissection of the mission contrasts sharply with the story presented by both sides of the Iraq war debate, the Pentagon spin masters and fierce critics. Perhaps inevitably, the 'Letter from Iraq' moved quickly beyond

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Youtube Custom RSS Search Results


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 3rd, 2006 in Programming, Technology

Updated: June 6th, 2008

Update: The method described here is obsolete. Youtube and Google released a beautiful API located here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_protocol.html. You can do everything mentioned in this article and a lot more using it. Here's a sample: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=rss&racy=include&vq=BBC+Five&start-index=201&max-results=50

So it looks like YouTube updated its RSS page recently and now has the ability to create RSS feeds by tags or user, like so:

Tags:
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the tag "monkey," you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss

Users:
http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert_username_here]/videos.rss
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the user "YouTube," you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/youtube/videos.rss

The search by tag approach, however, won't necessarily get complete results because it will depend on user tagging the videos. …

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Review of: Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro Earphones


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on September 18th, 2006 in My Favorites

Updated: June 24th, 2020

image Received this set today from Amazon. This is the review I wrote:

Well, what can I say… this is hands down the best pair of earphones that I've tried so far. I went through:

– (of course) the ipod cheapies that are horrible at everything except for giving you pain,
– the ER-6i, which sucked so bad, they had to be returned to Amazon. They basically touched parts of my brain, literally, that's how deep they went in. I experienced pain and headaches almost instantly,
– the Sony MDR-EX71SL, which was actually quite decent for the price ($29.99 on Amazon). They were much better than ER-6i and sounded great, until they fell apart completely due to the …

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How Much Can They Take? Boxing Match.


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on September 10th, 2006 in Entertainment

Updated: March 22nd, 2009

Can you go this long?

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Cybersex…


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on September 10th, 2006 in Humor

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Crazy Optical Illusion That Makes You Hallucinate – For Real


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 28th, 2006 in Awesomeness

Updated: September 28th, 2006

Dang, this was really cool, it worked on me. Try it, make this full screen by clicking here first. Don't worry, it's not one of those stare and get shitlessly scared by an ugly mug at the end.

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The Most Brilliant CounterStrike Parody Video!! MUST SEE!


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 21st, 2006 in Awesomeness, Humor, My Favorites

Updated: June 23rd, 2008

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Bike Messengers Race In NYC


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 12th, 2006 in Awesomeness, Sports

Don't try this at home, kids. It's like watching a car race, but much more awesome. Just watch.

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Incredible New Concept – Portal – The New Valve Game


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 7th, 2006 in Awesomeness

Updated: October 28th, 2007

Think of the possibilities… and the multiplayer mode…

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Unbelievable Security Flaw in Regular Locks Makes Them Obsolete


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 6th, 2006 in Security

Shocking…

An unbelievable security flaw in locks, this is a very good lockpicking technique, works on at least 90% of all pin locks, very interesting, the man in the video is Barry Wels, a lock and security extrodinaire.

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Minority Report Becomes Reality


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on August 6th, 2006 in Awesomeness, Technology

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure.

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