A Handbrake for Piracy
In my multi-year quest to get my movies and TV show DVDs onto our file server to watch, I’ve attempted to use many different programs. One that I used in the past was Handbrake, and I wasn’t really all that impressed by the quality. However, now that I’m backing up into H.264 rather than Xvid and Handbrake just released a new version with a very good H.264 encoder, it looks like it will be my program of choice. Even better, it allows for batch encoding, so I can set up a whole disc (or season) to encode while I’m going to be gone for a while and return to shiny files all ready to watch. The MPAA might not like it, but at least I’m buying their DVDs rather than just relying on my torrents for everything.
Andrew (and I to a certain extent) are (re)addicted to TDs in Warcraft 3. A form of emergent gameplay if there ever was one, TDs really show what a vibrant mod community can do with a game. Sure, it’s distracting me from WoW and BK, but I can’t only ever play those for the rest of my life. With W3 in there, I’m set to go forever though.