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Finally A Pro-American Movie From Hollywood
Leave it to David Zucker, of Airplane! fame, to produce a movie that takes on the liberal insanity that’s been on parade for way too long. An American Carol looks great, is long past-due, and is in theaters starting October 3, 2008.
Starring Kevin Farley, Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, [...]

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How do you convert an FLV file to another video format, say, to use on a Zune or iPod?

The best option I’ve found is to use SUPER© (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer), which provides a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, and ffmpeg2theora. More info and a faster download link is at VideoHelp.

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Steve Martin taught himself to play the banjo when he was in high school, and often incorporated it into his — now long-abandoned — stand-up comedy act. Though he walked away from stand-up in the early 1980s, he has continued playing the banjo. In 2002 he won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance [...]

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There’s a variant of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, mixed into a medley with What A Wonderful World, that has been used in several movies, television shows, and commercials, and I thought it was pretty remarkable. Most notably I remember it during the credits of Finding Forrester.
However, I just heard it used as background for a [...]

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