Kinda Lame

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I’ve created a few screen grabs of my Ubuntu 10.04 (kick ass) desktop and I can’t get any of them to convert without getting washed out with trippy colors. The source file coming from recordmydesktop is .ogv and converting it via YouTube or via Pitivi results in the same horrible product. I am guessing Google uses ffmpeg

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You might as well get it out of the way and realize it’s Katrina all over again. These poor birds were living their lives and got covered in oil and now they are in the jail known as the Sherburne Wildlife Area. Why is everyone being shipped out of Louisiana? Did we sell it back 10 years ago and this is all part of the final steps? Now all of New Orleans, and now these poor birds are being “cleaned up” and shipped away – in this case a total of 80 whole kilometers! It’s very sad, serious business;

“He is scoping around his new home,” Sharon Taylor, a Corrections Officer with the US Fish and Wildlife Marshal Service, says of the prisoner.

The bird then took a few steps into fenced in cage before trying out his wings. His smaller companion followed a few minutes later.

“They look right at home here,” said Taylor, surrounded by fencing dotted by hardened birds.

via AFP: Birds released from oily grave, never to see the ocean again.

For me to follow up with: You obligatory oil spill humor, the original link to the Mario Brothers – BP Oil Edition. Instant classic.