Published 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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David Blaine Street Magic (On Youtube): A Must See of Course
…Marine Letter Home. The Truth About Iraq.
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 …
Youtube Custom RSS Search Results
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Update: The method described here is obsolete.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. …
Review of: Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro Earphones
Updated: June 24th, 2020
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 …
How Much Can They Take? Boxing Match.
Crazy Optical Illusion That Makes You Hallucinate – For Real
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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Bike Messengers Race In NYC
Incredible New Concept – Portal – The New Valve Game
Unbelievable Security Flaw in Regular Locks Makes Them Obsolete
Minority Report Becomes Reality
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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