Geeks with Guns & Half-Life

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Accelerometers, drywall and a suppressed .22 caliber Ruger Mark III make for an interesting combination, and a potentially great training system.

YouTube HD-fier Script

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I wasn’t too happy having to click on the HD button of a video in order to view it in high resolution, so I whipped up this little grease monkey script. It simply enables HD, when available, for any links on the YouTube Homepage, My Videos & My Favorites.

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Persistent Storage for Web Apps

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Web developers now have the ability to store large amounts of persistent data on the client-side, way beyond the 4K limit of cookies. Options include HTML 5 Storage, Gears, Dojo Storage, and more. Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.

Seen at the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog.

The Next Web of Open, Linked Data

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20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

TED Talks: Beyond the Crisis, Mindboggling Science and the Arrival of Homo Evolutis

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Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.

J.J. Abrams Mistery Box

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In this 18 minute video J.J. Abrams, the producer of TV shows Alias and Lost and the upcoming film Cloverfield, speaks to a TED audience.