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 Sep 18, 5:47Photos of the NYC garbage cubes
humor art trash nyc new-york photo 2009 Apr 20, 6:15Remotely set shows to record, watch recorded shows, etc etc for Windows Media Center. Lots of cool looking stuff I need to try it out. The old MSN Remote Record service is gone and in its place
Microsoft has struck some sort of deal with the author of WebGuide such that its free!
microsoft windows tv mce plugin pvr cellphone remote free 2009 Mar 10, 5:15"We built this ... (many people wished we hadn't) ... the Rainbow Vomiting Panda of Awesomeness as an experiment (which used Ling Ling fwiw)." WTF? "It's a stream of, on average, more interesting
photos then you'd generally get from polling Everyone's photos. The quality is pretty good, the best thing to do is watch The Panda for a while and figure out if a) you want to build something with a
live stream of photos b) you can build something more better than a vomiting panda (which lets face it, it pretty hard to top!)."
humor panda flickr reference api photos 2009 Feb 24, 9:32Of course Netflix is already available on the 360, but PlayOn lets you watch Hulu on the 360. So far so good with the trial software. "Windows only: Previously mentioned Windows utility PlayOn-which
streams popular online video to your PS3, Xbox 360, and HP MediaSmart TV-has officially left its beta phase in the dust"
hulu video xbox xbox360 mediacenter dvr windows tv 2008 Aug 25, 3:02Episodes of the 60's TV show 'It Takes a Thief'.
hulu tv video it-takes-a-thief 2008 Jul 18, 2:14So far I've enjoyed two of this person's articles. More to come?
blog cool monthly kevin-kelly 2008 Jun 25, 1:58The official IE team flickr pool.
ie photo flickr ie8 blog chris-wilson 2008 Jun 19, 1:00"The new compression technique, called variable bitrate compression produces different size packets of data for different sounds...VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team
... has shown that simply measuring the size of packets
security privacy phone compression encryption blog article 2008 Jun 15, 7:57
I just installed vmcNetFlix which lets you watch your on demand NetFlix movies via your Vista Media Center or any Media Center
Extenders like the Xbox 360. It works well but fails poorly with some cryptic error messages and long timeouts. Be sure to get NetFlix on demand movies working in your browser before installing
this plugin. Once I did that everything worked very well.
To test it out I watched Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior in which Ting must travel from his country village to Bangkok where he works with his cousin in
the city to recover his village's stolen religious artifact. Its a mix of Perfect Strangers, Street Fighter and Pad-See Ew. Martial arts movies, like porn and video games, aren't required to have a
strong plot but Ong-Bak has a fine plot line and enjoyable Thai martial arts. I saw the Tiger Knee in there several times. An enjoyable movie that
reminded me of watching martial arts movies with my friends in high school.
media-center thai netflix ong-bak vista 2008 Jun 13, 12:52Stream NetFlix's on demand movies to your Vista Windows Media Center and all extenders including Xbox 360.
via:dotjosh lifehacker movies vista xbox plugin mce windows netflix movie 2008 Mar 2, 9:18
This post is about creating a server side z-code
interpreter that represents game progress in the URI. Try it with the game Lost
Pig.
I enjoy working on URIs and have the mug to prove it. Along those lines I've combined thoughts on URIs with interactive fiction. I have a
limited amount of experience with Inform which generates Z-Code so I'll focus on pieces written in that. Of course we can already have URIs
identifying the Z-Code files themselves, but I want URIs to identify my place in a piece of interactive fiction. The proper way to do this would be to give Z-Code its own mimetype and associate
with that mimetype the format of a fragment that would contain the save state of user's interactive fiction session. A user would
install a browser plugin that would generate URIs containing the appropriate fragment while you play the IF piece and be able to load URIs identifying Z-Code files and load the save state that
appears in the fragment.
But all of that would be a lot of work, so I made a server side version that approximates this. On the Web Frotz Interpreter page, enter the URI of a
Z-Code file to start a game. Enter your commands into the input text box at the bottom and you get a new URI after every command. For example, here's the
beginning of Zork. I'm running a slightly modified version of the Unix version of Frotz. Baf's Guide to the IF Archive has lists of IF games to try out.
There are two issues with this thought, the first being the security issues with running arbitrary z-code and the second is the practical URI length limit of about 2K in IE. From the Z-Code
standard and the Frotz source it looks like 'save' and 'restore' are the only commands that could do anything interesting outside of the Z-Code virtual machine. As for the length-limit on URIs I'm
not sure that much can be done about that. I'm using a base64 encoded copy of the compressed input stream in the URI now. Switching to the actual save state might be smaller after enough user
input.
zork frotz interactive-fiction zcode if technical uri fragment 2008 Jan 12, 2:26If you're like me you need to serialize an object that contains an
HIMAGELIST via IMarshal for COM's marshalling. I could
use
ImageList_Write to actually write the HIMAGELIST to a stream for IMarshal::MarshalInterface, but I needed to know the
size of the data that I was going to write for IMarshal::GetMarshalSizeMax. I thought I'd use
HIMAGELIST_QueryInterface to
get an IPersistStream pointer which works, but alas its implementation of IPersistStream::GetMaxSize just returns E_NOTIMPL. Ultimately I called ImageList_Write on a special stream that ignores the
data passed to it and just records how much data is written to it. In this fashion I could get the size the HIMAGELIST would require when written to a stream.
technical himagelist boring serialize imarshal com 2007 Apr 4, 1:23the pAved earth is an Internet radio station playing crock alternative progressive indie and ska.
music ska alternative paved-earth radio 2007 Mar 13, 4:16Emly Chang writes about mashing up all of the content from your various social services and presenting them as one feed. That's what I'm doing on my site!
article blog feed identity mashup aggregator 2006 Nov 27, 1:54Stream video of any format from your Win Media Center to your Xbox 360. Just the thing for my new Xbox.
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