2010 Nov 15, 9:27
bttf video biff 2010 Oct 28, 9:36Seattle restaurant serving delicious Southern food visited just today for lunch.
restaurant seattle food capitolhill southern 2010 Oct 13, 3:11"To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Back To The Future, we've got never-before-seen footage of original star Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. Plus Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale all
explaining why they replaced him with Michael J. Fox"
backtothefuture bttf movie video eric-stoltz 2010 Sep 30, 2:48A surprisingly readable and delightfully accurate summary of the history of MIME in the web followed by proposed next steps. Sounds like a plan to me! "We need a realistic transition plan from the
unreliable web to the more reliable one. Part of this is to encourage senders (web servers) to mean what they say, and encourage recipients (browsers) to give preference to what the senders are
sending."
mime contenttype browser web ietf reference history mimetype mime-sniffing sniffing technical 2010 Sep 27, 3:08Adam Barth's URI API draft starts to appear in webkit: "One of the things Adam Barth is currently working on is an URL API. Citing it, the API can be used for constructing, parsing and resolving URLs
through scripting, easening up tasks like getting and setting parameters. Today the first part landed in WebKit, which added the “origin” property."
webkit adam-barth uri url api javascript dom html html5 browser webbrowser technical 2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.
via:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain 2010 Sep 4, 7:55"Given Duke Nukem Forever's epic development—it was first announced in 1997 as a sequel to Duke Nukem 3D—it might be wise to hedge on the later of those two release windows."
duke-nukem game video videogame 2010 Aug 22, 4:04Demo of marked-up video with the people and places shown in the video popping up along side in real time.
video html html5 javascript technical mozilla 2010 Aug 20, 11:20
For a new project I'm working on involving IE's installed Accelerators and OpenSearch search providers via the Windows 7
Accelerator Platform, I've created a C#/COM interop class for those APIs.
Download the osinterop.cs interop file here.
technical accelerator csharp com 2010 Aug 17, 3:05
I've just got a new media center PC connected directly to my television with lots of HD space and so I'm ripping a bunch of my DVDs to the PC so I don't have to fuss with the physical media. I'm
ripping with DVD Rip, viewing the results in Windows 7's Windows Media Center after turning on the WMC DVD Library, and using a powershell script I wrote to copy over cover art and metadata.
My powershell script follows. To use it you must do the following:
- Run Windows Media Center with the DVD in the drive and view the disc's metadata info.
- Rip each DVD to its own subdirectory of a common directory.
- The name of the subdirectory to which the DVD is ripped must have the same name as the DVD name in the metadata. An exception to this are characters that aren't allowed in Windows paths (e.g.
<, >, ?, *, etc)
- Run the script and pass the path to the common directory containing the DVD rips as the first parameter.
Running WMC and viewing the DVD's metadata forces WMC to copy the metadata off the Internet and cache it locally. After playing with Fiddler and reading this
blog post on WMC metadata I made the following script that copies metadata and cover art from the WMC cache to the corresponding
DVD rip directory.
Download copydvdinfo.ps1
powershell wmc technical tv dvd windows-media-center 2010 Aug 14, 5:34pInvoke.net is a wiki for the C# interop declarations for various Win32 functions.
pinvoke c# csharp consle api windows reference wiki technical 2010 Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant
information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."
rest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical 2010 Aug 13, 4:38Blobs are coming and they're bring with them a new URL scheme...
blob html5 url html file api javascript technical uri guid 2010 Aug 4, 2:29Using games for good! Foldit players are solving real biochemistry problems. "Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities
and behavior, or simply used games to drum up excitement for the science. But this may be the first time that the gamers played an active role in producing the results, having solved problems in
protein structure through the Foldit game."
videogame game biology science research 2010 Jul 9, 4:59"EpicWin, the app aims to merge your to-do list with an RPG, letting you gain experience points and find rare loot as you do the laundry and catch up on e-mail."
humor getting-things-done game iphone phone todo-list rpg video-game video 2010 Jul 1, 3:33"By charting the production of new books, new music albums, and new feature films over the last decade, the authors tried to see whether creative output went up or down in correlation with
file-sharing." They find that creative output is going up while piracy also increases. But this is correlation not causation. They can't say there wouldn't be more creative output with less piracy.
Regardless, still an interesting statistic.
arstechnica copyright law economics ip piracy music technical 2010 Jun 29, 1:24
An excellent movie I'd never heard of. An entertaining and humorous sci-fi indie romance comedy. It stars Emma Caulfield (who I recognize as Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) who obsesses over
her timer, an implanted device that counts down to when she'll meet the love of her life. Thematically its similar to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which similarly adds a scifi device to
society in order to examine the value of failed relationships on a persons life.
movie review netflix TiMER 2010 Jun 13, 3:47From
Angie's photos of my wedding there's a sequence of four photos where everyone's holding still except me. Of
course I turned this into an animated GIF using
GIF Make, to produce my
animated wedding GIF. I don't embed the image in the HTML because it is really irritating.
wedding animated photo personal gif 2010 Jun 12, 2:40The American's succeeded with the revolution thanks to the 2010 Dodge Challenger. This makes me eager for Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
video humor via:jon america history george-washington car advertising dodge
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