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gadgets, technology, science stuff

Fake is the new Real

If you look at early film and television it’s primarily studio-based. Secondary shots were captured on location but primary shots with actors were mainly filmed in a controlled studio environment, with a combination of props, staging, projections, etc used to … Continue reading

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PVR: finally you make sense

I’ve had a PVR for almost 2 years now and after mostly sitting idle, taping a rare late night movie (which we still haven’t watched), it’s all if sudden being used all the time! What happened? For one we are … Continue reading

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Crazyass boat

Strange boat visiting Bergen this week, named simply “A” it is pure russian ogliarch gone mad.

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Lazy biker lift

Saw this strange device in Trondheim today, it’s apparently the only one in the world! Invented by local inventor/mad scientist, it pulls the tired and weary Trondheim cyclist up a particularly wicked incline.

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A brief history of keys

My brother recently forwarded me the picture above, the mighty Casio MT-70, also my first keyboard. I had actually forgotten I ever owned this plastic wonder so it prompted me to take stock of the gear I’ve used over the … Continue reading

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Kasparius.com embraces Flash video

I posted last months video in Flash format, using the new Flash Video Player plugin for WordPress. It seems to work pretty well now, unlike last time I tried it a few versions ago. I really like the ease of … Continue reading

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2000-watt diet

So how much energy does the average person use every day? Swiss scientists worked the numbers and came up with a model for each country’s total energy consumption back in 1998 and divided it by the number of citizens. The … Continue reading

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April Fools

Seems everyone has a post on April Fools, so here’s mine: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html Video geeks will enjoy the irony of this one…

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My PC sucks.. a little anyway :)

I’ve had a hankering for a good racing game to play on my PC, and after some reading I saw that the new DiRT game is supposed to be the best looking car game ever. Then I read the system … Continue reading

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Apple hits the big time…. maybe

I think the whole Apple iPhone show is fun to watch. Apple releases a phone “for the rest of us”, and predictably every grumpy nerd is complaining about this and that feature missing. Meanwhile a million people have bought the … Continue reading

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