Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

You’ll never guess the website address…
www.easybartricks.com complete with video instructions.
Some of these look cool, especially the bill and two bottle trick.

Ahhh, Christmas…
My Dad got a REALLY simple game today for Christmas, Pocket Farkel, and it got me thinking, I bet I could teach my daughter some simple dice games we could play when we have some free time and I found this:
Games of the International Bone Rollers Guild
Some of them are pretty simple, some more […]

So you have all your great music on your home machine but would like to listen to it at work, or maybe even while at Starbucks? Well now you can set up your own little internet radio station with your own music with Orb. Looks seriosuly cool.
Roll your own MP3 server with Orb

Ok, when I was a kid, my brother recorded the audio of Star Trek (the original) episodes onto cassette tape so we could listen to them. I even recorded Winnie the Pooh for my daughter for when we travelled in the car since we did not have a portable DVD player at the time.
Well, here […]

Ok, this is sweet. There are lots of places to find online video files, but this has whole seasons of whole shows, including Rome. The quaility is surprisingly good.
Bleenks.com - Free Full Length TV Episodes Online

Title seems to say it all…
Turn Google into Napster 2000
here is another site that makes it even easier, but different level of selection.
Project Playlist

So I don’t watch too much televison anymore and find myself watching what I want on demand anyways with YouTube and Google Video. But what about full length television shows? Here is one solution:
Technophilia: Forget the TV and watch the web - Lifehacker
There is also an online Television with lots of promise at Joost

I like cool quotes, usually just for my email signature files. I have also thought about putting up a ‘quote of the moment’ section on my main webpage next to my ‘cool word of the moment’. This is a great sources of quotes, indexed and searchable.
ThinkExist.com Quotations.

This is damn funny. A re-worked preview of the movie The Shining with Jack Nicholson. They use clip from the movie just like any other preview, but this one makes it look fun for the whole family.
The Shining a family film

This is a great little clip (15 min) about how the guys from Top Gear (a cool british car show) try to ‘kill’ a toyota pickup truck and fail. They even put it on top of a apartment complex that is then imploded.

Top Gear - Killing a Toyota Hilux