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I thought Google+'s version felt much more personal. 

Facebook Lookback videos versus Google+ Year-in-Review

So who did it better? Google Year-in-Review, or Facebook Lookback?
Facebook is lousy with Lookback videos this week. To celebrate its 10th birthday, the social network put together (without asking, to the dismay of some) a retrospective of your life on Facebook from the moment you joined. 
It starts by reminding you what year you joined. (For me, that was March 2007.) Then your…

The theme song is playing in my head right now :D

Finally a 3D CG cartoon movie worth a damn: Chip ‘n Dale, Rescue Rangers

We’ve suffered through two Garfields, three godawful Alvin & the Chipmunks flicks, Yogi Bear, and other horrible 3D CG movie remakes of classic cartoons. But the whole irritating phenomenon may be redeemed by this news that Disney is making a new Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers movie.

If he's not an actor, that's one lucky dude!

Ian Up For Whatever Film– 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII Commercial – Extended Scenes | Bud Light

Check out Bud Light’s Super Bowl 2014 commercial following one guy who was truly #UpForWhatever.

If this is true it's an amazing story, but I have my doubts.

Man says he survived 13 months adrift in Pacific – World – CBC News

It’s a story that almost defies belief: a man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 8,800 kilometres away.

New Transformers 4 teaser! 

Optimus Prime is riding a DINOSAUR in new Transformers 4 trailer

Watch the first real trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction. Which is almost entirely in slow motion.

I don't understand why it took so long for the other driver to get back behind the snow plow.

Near crash of 2 tractor-trailers, snowplow captured on video – Thunder Bay – CBC News

The near crash of two tractor-trailers and a snowplow on Highway 11 north of Nipigon, Ont., was captured on a video in one of the tractor-trailers and posted on YouTube, an incident the OPP is now investigating.

Wow! It's amazing no one got hurt through all that.

Massive boulders nearly flatten Italian farmhouse – Photo Galleries – World – CBC News

A landslide last week in Ronchi di Termeno in northern Italy sent two boulders tumbling downhill, narrowly missing a farmhouse.

Awe… These commercials are so cute! 

Hopefully this is true!

Report: Samsung Will Stop Screwing Up Android

Samsung’s super Android phones, and its Android devices in general, have long been hindered by the terribleness of the proprietary UI and apps the company insists on bundling with its hardware. Re/Code reports that Samsung’s gonna cut it out. Let’s hope so.

Good tip!
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Use YouTube for Instant and Free Transcription

Most of us don’t need to transcribe audio too often, which means that paying for a service is generally out of the question. If you just need to do it once and you’re not terribly concerned with accuracy, Andy Baio suggests using YouTube’s built-in captioning system.

It's like a miniature version of the space shuttle.

Watch the development of America’s next space shuttle

In 2016, a new kind of space shuttle will rise to the skies atop an Atlas V rocket. Developed by a private company—the Sierra Nevada Corporation—it would be able to ferry seven astronauts to orbit and back. Its name is the Dream Chaser and this video shows its (spectacular) development progress so far. A fine spaceship indeed!

This is so cool!

Chrome + LEGO: You can build whatever you like

Think back: you’ve just dumped a bin of LEGOR bricks onto the floor with a satisfying crash, and you have the whole day ahead of you to build whatever you want. There’s something pretty amazing about being able to piece toget…

Tough to get a break these days.

Falling loonie means just more milking of Canadian consumers: Neil Macdonald – World – CBC News

Canadians paid more than Americans for most consumer items — even those made in Canada — when the loonie was strong. And we’re going to pay more again now that it’s gone into a nose dive? What’s wrong with this picture? Neil Macdonald asks.

I'm sure this is part of the reason why we still don't have Google Play Music here in Canada.
#googleplaymusic  

Why Do Media Companies Block Movies, Music, and TV Based on Location?

Dear Lifehacker,
I’ve always wondered why Blu-rays have regions, or why a music service is available in one country but not another. The Internet is global, right? And why are videos that stream in one country blocked in another? Is there any rhyme or reason, or is it all just to be annoying?