2010 Aug 4, 2:26
Video of racer 0.2 a video game made real sort of. Arcade racing cabinet hooked up to an RC car with wireless video camera placed on a cardboard track.
humor awesome 3d game videogame video cardboard irl 2010 Jun 6, 10:51
Chris Hardwick as half of Hard'n Phrim does Rodeohead -- its a bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs sort of in the style of Weird Al's polka medleys. And "it’s not on iTunes for licensing
reasons so please take it for free if you don’t already have it."
Hard 'n Phirm - Rodeohead (mp3)
music humor weird-al radiohead chris-hardwick hard-n-phirm 2010 Apr 21, 6:48"The Web Open Font Format, already backed by Mozilla and many type foundries was accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium yesterday, marking the first stage in its standardization. The submission
included a surprising new sponsor: Microsoft."
font microsoft web internet typography arstechnica browser technical 2010 Feb 28, 11:36
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bahamas nassau atlantisresort 2010 Feb 22, 7:11Video of an artist's conception of our future augmented reality. I like the addition of the video artifacts and the slightly out of sync overlay. I take issue with the sort of video artifacts
and the 'level of advertising'. Maybe they had the advertising supported AR goggles...
augmented-reality gui 3d advertising art design video 2010 Jan 14, 2:51Its Tetris on the Nintendo (sort of) from the perspective of the piece (sort of).
humor tetris game videogame nintendo flash 2009 Dec 16, 9:41"This sort of model should remind you of 1-piece click-out toys packaged with action figures such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Michael Johansson specializes in parodying this particular moment in
toydom by creating life-sized models with that molded-plastic “break-apart and play” action specifically in mind."
art sculpture design product commodity parody 2009 Dec 13, 1:27
I was reading Makers, Cory Doctorow's latest novel, as it was serialized on Tor's website but with no ability to save my place within a page I set out to find a book reading app for my
G1 Android phone. I stopped looking once I found Aldiko. Its got bookmarks within chapters, configurable fonts, you can look-up words in a
dictionary, and has an easy method to download public domain and creative common books. I was able to take advantage of Aldiko's in-app book download system to get Makers onto my phone so I didn't
have to bother with any conversion programs etc, and I didn't have to worry about spacing or layout, the book had the correct cover art, and chapter delimiters. I'm very happy with this app and
finished reading Makers on it.
Makers is set in the near future and features teams of inventors, networked 3d printers, IP contention, body modifications, and Disney -- just the sort of thing you'd expect from a Cory
Doctorow novel. The tale seems to be an allegory for the Internet including displacing existing businesses and the conflict between the existing big entertainment IP owners and the plethora of fans
and minor content producers. The story is engaging and the characters filled out and believable. I recommend Makers and as always its Creative Commons so go take a look right now.
tor aldiko cory doctorow g1 makers ebook android book 2009 Nov 23, 11:33A map of the sciences generated via science web portals: "Over the course of 2007 and 2008, we collected nearly 1 billion user interactions recorded by the scholarly web portals of some of the most
significant publishers, aggregators and institutional consortia...The resulting model was visualized as a journal network that outlines the relationships between various scientific domains and
clarifies the connection of the social sciences and humanities to the natural sciences."
via:pskomoroch visualization science map graph 2009 Nov 16, 7:40Part 11 (of 11?) in a series on why you shouldn't freak out about the transition from UCS2 to UTF16. The answer is: you're already doing it wrong.
technical ucs2 unicode utf16 text windows programming language michael-kaplan 2009 Aug 24, 3:11"It turns out that flipping a coin has all sorts of non-randomness", includes link to research paper and blog post with gems like: "If the coin is tossed and caught, it has about a 51% chance of
landing on the same face it was launched"
security random coin coin-toss 2009 Jun 19, 8:07
The weekend before the previous, Sarah and I moved our belongings into the
new house and spent a lot of time packing and unpacking, and now we're officially living there (interested Facebook friends can find my
new address or just ask me). The Saturday of the previous weekend Sarah's family came over for a half house warming and half Sarah's birthday celebration which was fun and served to force us to do
more unpacking and forced me to take trips to Home Depot, Bed Bath and Beyond, etc. On Sunday, Sarah and I went out to her favorite restaurant and she opened her gifts that I had to hide to keep
her from opening before her birthday. Happy Birthday Sarah!
While at Home Depot I had trouble finding what I was actually looking for, but I did find everything I needed to terminate the Cat5e cables that are wired in the house. Each room has a wall plate
with two RJ45 sockets, both sockets wired to Cat5e cable. One of the cables per plate was already hooked up to a standard phone service punchdown board and the other cables per plate were all
hanging unterminated next to the punchdown board. So now I've terminated them all with RJ45 connectors and hooked them up to my hub, wireless router, cable modem, etc. I had the same sort of fun
setting all that up as I did playing with model train sets as a child. Hopefully no therapy will be required to figure out why that is.
personal2 train address sarah house new-house birthday
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