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Hopefully I'll be able to see this in person over the weekend, but if not Flatbush Gardener has some great posts about this rare bloom. Originally uploaded by Flatbush Gardener. (via GardenVoices)Originally from DefinitiveInk by reBlogged on Aug 11, 2006, 1:05PM
From The Trades:You all know the story about how two idealistic teenagers in the 1930s created a science fiction hero that spawned an industry. Jerry and Joe, in a flash of brilliance, gave the world Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. He was a hero the likes of which the world had never seen before.
Or was he?
There are few science fiction aficionados not familiar with Lester Dent's creation, Doc Savage. When comparing Savage and Superman, it doesn't require much of a stretch to see the resemblances between "The Man Of Bronze" and "The Man Of Steel". Both had keen minds. Both were named Clark. Both had a "fortress of solitude" -- Savage's in the Arctic, Superman's in the Antarctic. Dent's Savage was even publicized as "a superman" in the house ads promoting the tales. Published in the early-to-mid 1930's, it is readily admitted that Doc Savage was a strong influence on the teenage Siegel and Shuster when they created the Last Son of Krypton.
There was, however, another champion to contend with, an older one who was a lot closer to being Superman than Clark Savage ever was.
An uninhibited Superman? Wylie's Gladiator was published in 1930, eight years before the Man of Steel.Meet Hugo Danner. He can leap 40 feet into the air; bend steel in his bare hands. Nothing short of a bursting shell can penetrate his invulnerable skin. Sound familiar?Originally from Cynical-C Blog by reBlogged on Aug 11, 2006, 1:02PM
With the help of some friends at CADD Edge we were able to get a color 3D print of our favorite World of Warcraft gnome. All we had to do was export our cleaned up and textured models as VRML files, which they fed right into their ZCorp printer.
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If you are interested in doing the same with your video game avatars, I suggest contacting Anvil Prototypes. They are interested in helping people who want to pay to have their characters printed (see their sweet flyer), and took this funny photo of a color-printed gnome in the woods:
(is it just me, or are the monochrome prints from Eyebeam's Dimension so much less fulfilling now?)
Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs reBlogged on Aug 11, 2006, 12:36PM
Carnegie Mellon MFA grad showOriginally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 8:40PM
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history of the world via movies. someone oughtta visualize this puppyOriginally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 7:10PM
blablablablabalblaOriginally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 8:45PM
I hope this kid grew up to be a game developer. Or maybe a marketer. Industry friends have been sending this video around all day because we've all been there (or close). When you're my age, things might not be expressed with so much enthusiasm but the passion is definitely still there.
Originally from hello, nintendo by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 10:19PM
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[Blog] From my flickr account I've created some geotags using Google Earth and tagged my flickr set with locations which now appear on a world map. My inspriation for this came from a cycling geez.
Originally from Geotags.org by reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 9:48PM
Today is the 2nd anniversary of our marriage in New Paltz!
Nothing's changed. I love her as much now, as two years ago, or ten years ago. But I still write "single" on my taxes.
Please visit HRC and take action. Write to your elected officials. Please support same-sex marriage.
Originally from iPalimpsest reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 10:32PM
The Borough of Lewisham in London has launched a new program to help clean up the neighborhood with the help of the public and MMS. Everyone is allowed to download an Java application to their cell phones and then proceed to take pictures of graffiti, abandoned cars, garbage, etc. The application then uploads the photo a council who will go to the pictured spot and clean up the mess. The standard MMS fees apply for the public, but just think of how pretty the environment could be without all that nasty tagging.
MMS to Combat London Graffiti [MobHappy]
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Originally from unmediated reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 11:48PM
The Eyebeam OpenLab is now accepting interns for a number of project areas. Positions are unpaid but receive full named credit for all work completed. All interns will work closely with one or more of the OpenLab's staff or fellows on new or ongoing projects. Interns must be skilled in their project area but more importantly they are eager to learn and take direction from their coworkers in the lab.
We are seeking interns in the following areas:
- Web Development
- 3D Graphics
- 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication
- Graffiti Research Lab
- Web Development
- Engineering Technician
- Senior Fellow Cory Arcangel Intern
For more information about the positions and how to apply, please go to http://research.eyebeam.org/internships
Originally from unmediated reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 11:49PM
Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.
Originally from unmediated reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 11:50PM
Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
It is true, cable franchises pay the networks for the privilege of carrying them. This is on a per-subscriber basis and allows the television networks to double dip in a sense, get per-subscriber fees as well as ad revenue.The argument that Google makes the broadband networks valuable is true although there are a plethora of such services, no lack of content which is why the cable co.'s started to pay the networks in the first place.
There is NO WAY the telcos would fall for this (Verizon/CBS stupidity aside) on broadband lines unless they truly still envision the internet as 1,000,000 channels of TV.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think that Google should pay either. We (the consumers here) are already paying. Unless Google wants to be on the providers home page or portal there is no reason for them to pay.
I hope they do light up all of that fiber they have been buying and route around the telecos and allow me a WiFi Mesh or WiMax connection.
Originally from unmediated reBlogged on Mar 27, 2006, 11:56PM
Another deep tutorial about mdfind. So cool......Originally from JayAllen - The Daily Journey by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 12:02AM
A British mobile software developer launched a flat-fee text messaging service that allows users to send unlimited messages for $1.75 a week. RCRNews reports. Hotxt, which describes its service as a kind of Skype for text messagers, uses the Internet to send messages between wireless users. The company is targeting its new service at 16- to 25-year-olds, claiming that a user who sends seven texts a day will save $367 over the course of a year. ... Hotxt said its service works on all Java-enabled phones on U.K. networks except from pre-paid handsets from O2 and 3."Originally from textually.org by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 1:36AM
"In an extreme instance, in which there is a Propervirt of less than 0.9%, the TEXT OF THE PRESENT PROSPECTUS may likewise undergo an ABRUPT change. If, while you are reading these sentences, the words begin to jump about, and the letters quiver and blur, please interrupt your reading for ten or twenty seconds to wipe your glasses, adjust your clothing, or the like, and then start reading AGAIN from the beginning, and NOT JUST from the place where your reading was interrupted, since such a TRANSFORMATION indicates that a correction of DEFICIENCIES is now taking place."Originally from tecznotes links by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 2:05AM
Apparently the new Yahoo! Mail beta is out for everyone now. Mmmm rich chocolaty ajax goodness, and a way nicer interface than gmail (although gmail does handle list subscriptions better).
Still no Safari love though. Camino works fine however.Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 2:17AM
"Brakin' (Remix 2--Get Me to Lee Miles Mix)" [4.4 MB .mp3]. John Parker remix of my Mac SE tune (and my mix of his mix, etc.--this has been traded back and forth a few times). Still work in process--we're still composing and editing this piece, but I like this stage.
Originally from Tom Moody by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 4:28AM
Remix Reading is running an exhibition of Creative Commons-licensed art at the Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock in the UK from April 28th through 30th. There's an open call for submissions until April 6, so get to it! Remix Reading's Tom Chance tells us: Anyone can submit, and we'd especially like to receive "real media" submissions (i.e. not digital art or photographs). We can help arrange international shipping of works if anyone submits them.
Originally from Creative Commons Blog by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 4:43AM
Beloved children's author Beverley Cleary is about to turn 90. To honor the occasion, her publisher, HarpersCollins, has designated April 12 Drop Everything and Read! Day, complete with a list of suggested books compiled by experts from Reach Out and Read, NEA, and Reading Rockets. (via rw)Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 7:30AM
From a Bear Stearns report on comScore data, Google continues to gain ground in search share in the US. Given all that's going on in search and related media, that's impressive. From the report, which was emailed to me:Google now has a 42.3% share of the domestic search market (the highest since comScore starting tracking market share data), up from 41.4% in Jan 06 and 39.8% in 4Q 05.
...Yahoo's share dropped 110 bps to 27.6%, MSN share dropped 20 bps to 13.5% while AOL's share increased slightly to 8.0% from 7.9% in Jan 06. Ask market share rose to 6.0% from 5.6% in Jan 06. The marketing push behind the Ask brand likely contributed to its share gains.
Year-over-year, Google and Ask showed strong search query gain of 29.4% and 27.9%, respectively, while the other search providers in the top five declined. On a sequential basis, Google and Ask also showed the highest growth at 8.3% and 14.6% respectively.
While Google's unique searcher market share remains flat at 59.1% level from Jan. 06 (Yahoo and MSN both declined in this metric), searches per search increased to 29 from 27 in Jan. 06 and from 26 in 4Q 05.
Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 8:10AM
The San Francisco Perl Mongers meeting on Tuesday March 28th, 2006, will feature three speakers as a follow up to the previous month's meeting on Perl integrated development environments. While I recently started following the development of the PPI refactoring editor, for this meeting I'll be presenting 30 minutes worth of Vim goodness featuring integration with PerlTidy and the Perl debugger. And also some other fun features that can make your life as a Perl developer more productive when you use Vim. Please check the SFPUG Blog for details. Hope to see you there!Originally from use Perl by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 8:35AM
The UK/France-based Insight has just released a field guide to participatory video (PV). The guide lays out instructions through text, illustration and photography to assist amateur videographers in setting up PV projects regardless of their location.
Insight's work focuses on empowering individuals and communities to give voice to their experience by learning about the tools and processes required to direct, film, and produce videos. Much of their work involves applying video techniques to Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) practices, which encompass a broad range of local, collaborative methods for assessment and planning in communities both rural and urban.
This of course runs quite parallel to the work of Witness and other efforts to expose injustice through local, participatory video. While Insight's work goes more in-depth on the entire video-making process, their globally-applicable handbook may prove informative even for capturing more on-the-fly footage through developments such as Witness's mobile phone project, which enables citizens to document human rights violations through cameraphone recordings, as well as environmental data documentation, as Jamais mentioned with the idea of Earth Witness.
The use of mobile technology, cameras and wireless networks for citizen-driven progress is a recurring theme at Worldchanging. But having the tools without understanding the techniques doesn't get us all the way there. With "Insights into Participatory Video," citizens have a chance to extract the full potential of technological tools that are increasingly accessible in remote areas of the world.
(Posted by Sarah Rich in The Means of Expression - Media, Creativity and Experience at 12:02 PM)
Originally from unmediated reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 9:07AM
Originally from megnut.com blog reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 9:50AM
If bugs give you the willies, stay clear. If not, check out some incredible macro shots of insects. These are stunning. Nature is amazing. [via Coudal]
Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 9:26AM
Prince brings it out in me every time!! Jonah is incredulous at my finger work.
* At Meg & Jason's wedding over the weekend.
Originally from Andrea Harner by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 9:55AM
Every day since Leta’s birth I have read to her from the Anils of Dash. When we got this t-shirt in the mail yesterday from the wonderful people at Mule Design she couldn’t have been more excited if Elmo had hand-delivered it.
Originally from dooce reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 10:03AM
Wow! Three weeks ago I posted a modest proposal for a guerilla wayfinding campaign, painting compass stencils at the exits of subway stations for disoriented commuters.
Today at the 8th Avenue L exit I found this:
Here’s a hi-res photo someone posted to Flickr of the same compass at the Bleeker 6 exit. I found more at Astor Place and Union Square. Is someone reading this blog? And will they go all city?
Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 10:08AM
Shaking up tech publishing: "It seems that the industry standard [for authors] is something akin to 10% of the profits (which easily take 4-5-6 months to arrive), being forced to write in Word, and finally a production cycle that's at least a good 3 months from final book to delivery. That's horrible!" Building a shop "to take $19 from your credit card" and laying out books in InDesign aren't as easy as he makes it out to be for everyone, but it's a great overall point.Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 10:18AM
A lot of familiar faces have been popping up on 24 for the last week or two--at least they're familiar if your life revolves around TV and movies. Last week's German agent Theo Stoller was played by the same...Originally from Amy's Robot by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 11:23AM
Rails 1.1 is alive. It's a huge update, the biggest yet, with more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from over 100 contributors. It's also a triumph of extractions. Most of the blockbuster features started life in 37signals applications. A rundown:
- RJS - JavaScript written in Ruby: We initially extracted the Ajax support in Rails from Backpack. It was the first application that I used the send-HTML-instead-of-data approach to Ajax, which became the foundation for the update mechanism in Prototype. But as we increased our appetite for Ajax with Campfire, we needed more. RJS was extracted from the work to make all the JavaScript code in Campfire beautiful.
- Polymorphic associations/join models: Sunrise gave birth to both of these features as I needed to implement rich tagging against multiple classes (you can tag people, companies, entries, etc with the same tags). This an example of us sharing new features even before the founding application has launched.
- Accept-driven responses: The new Basecamp API is based upon the work I did when discovering usefulness of the accept header in HTTP and working with Jamis to built a great way to encapsulate that. Now we can have the same code easily serve Ajax-calls, API-calls, mobile clients, and more.
- ActiveRecord::Base.to_xml: When creating APIs, you usually have to expose tons of model objects as XML (like give me all the todo items for this list in XML). Marking all this XML up by hand every time is tedious. We needed something better to stay productive for the Basecamp API, so to_xml was born.
- Integration testing: Testing Campfire properly required more than Rails initially provided. How do you verify that things are working right when two or three people are chatting simultaneously? With integration testing that's easy as you can run concurrent sessions and make assertions about the interactions. Jamis extracted this from Campfire and did a great job writing about how to use it.
- Enumerable#group_by and Array#in_groups_of: How to easily partition data into chunks for presentation? These two methods were born from Campfire's transcript browser by Marcel and Sam.
- form_for, form_remote_for, and fields_for: Most of the form helpers in Rails was based around the notion that you would only have 1 form per object type per page. Sunrise quickly brought that to same with many forms for similar object types all over the place. So we extracted a new, cleaner way to specify forms and their relationship to models.
are extractions. The best ideas arise when you're squeezed between the constraints of time, reality, and a desire to be happy writing beautiful code. There was no way we could have come up with all of these new features by simply contemplating what some people might need some day.
Designing software by guessing about the future is a terrible way to arrive at something pleasant.
Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 11:35AM
yeah, I've had days like that [via]Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 12:54PM
Photojojo is an email newsletter about the intersection of awesome + photography. We research great photo DIY projects, tips, and gear and bring them to you. It’s a project I’ve been working for a couple months now and I’m reallly excited to see it debut this week.
37 signals gave us a tip of the hat today, and The real janelle let the cat out of the bag yesterday, so we’re off to a good start!
Help us spread the word about Photojojo!
Link: Photography + Awesome = Photojojo
Technorati Tags: photojojo, diy, photography, photo, photo projects, 37signals, newsletter
Originally from Amit Gupta's Blog by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 12:58PM
Avie Tevanian to leave Apple. Long regarded as the brains behind OS X (and NeXT before it), Tevanian's unexpected departure is "too pursue other interests," and his last day is Friday, 1 day before Apple's 30th anniversary. Noted tech curmudgeon John C. Dvorak recently claimed, to much ridicule, that Apple was going to ditch OS X and move to Windows. Coincidence? Or has Steve's famous temper gotten the better of him again?Originally from MetaFilter posts tagged with apple by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 1:05PM
Video tutorial from Apple Developer Connection: “When you take advantage of Core Data, it slashes the amount of custom code you need to write in order to manage application data. Opening, saving and undo management can all be handled by Core Data, freeing you to concentrate on creating unique features for your application.”
Also see Wolf’s notes on the article.Originally from ranchero.com by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 1:23PM
Videos from presentations at Google, including John Battelle, Seth Godin, Antarctic meteorites, Hal Varian, and Sergey Brin. (thx, jf)Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 1:34PM
Dave Liebreich detects part of NetNewsWire’s software ancestry.Originally from inessential.com reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 1:37PM
max/msp vs quartz composer, i have come full curcle here. hahahaOriginally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 2:12PM
fullscreen quicktimeOriginally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 2:16PM
1. Bachelor in a Casserole 2. The Swirling Clergyman's Lament 3. St. Sebastian's Disused Quiver 4. Dolorous Dolores 5. Gracious Knows These Trousers BindOriginally from tecznotes links by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 3:21PM
"rsync.net provides secure, fault-tolerant, multi-homed data storage for offsite backup, disaster preparedness, remote access and personal use."Originally from tecznotes links by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 3:29PM
Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 4:02PM
By markal.
Originally from FlickrBlog reBlogged on Mar 28, 2006, 4:06PM
It took awhile, but I finally got a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet! (Though I guess it would be called an “ultramobile” now ;-) The device arrived a couple weeks ago (those who bumped into me at SXSWi might have seen it), and I’ve been slowly trying to incorporate it into my workflow. Fortunately that’s an exciting thing to do given how fun the device is to use.
First thing first though, my 770 was “previously used”, so I did need to update the firmware. Thankfully, this was super easy: “Flash Latest Nokia Image with Mac OS X“.
With the new firmware running, the next step was to install xterm, followed by Python for Maemo. Both of these worked perfectly, and I still get a kick out of seeing a Python prompt on this thing! Of course, working on the command-line isn’t much fun using the on-screen keyboard, and since I wanted to use the 770 to take notes at meetings, I decided to buy a Nokia SU-8W Bluetooth Keyboard. The 770 needs a driver to use the keyboard, but this is also easy enough to install: maemo-bt-plugin. With a physical keyboard, I can now use vim, but the SU-8W will take a little getting used to. The key-layout is tight, and the use of the function key (’fn’) messes with my touch-typing. Additionally, being hinged in the middle, the keyboard also doesn’t lay in your lap well. Without a table top, you end up having to balance the keyboard on one thigh while seated.
Where the 770 really shines though is in web browsing. Browsing the web on the 770 is good — really, really good. The wifi reception is fantastic, and even modern sites like Google Mail work flawlessly. Furthermore, since I leave the device in stand-by (just closing the cover), it’s one of the quickest browsers to get to when away from the desktop. I can be online with the 770 in about the time it takes for my PowerBook to wake up.
When you’re ready for more things to do with the 770, the Maemo application catalog features dozens of applications which are super easy to install over-the-air. (Maemo-Sudoku helped me through a particularly long lay-over last week.)
One thing I didn’t know about the 770 before getting one is how well it integrates with Nokia phones. When first booting the new firmware, the device asked to pair with my phone (a Nokia N90.) The N90 is now visible when browsing files and can be used to get online over GPRS. I used this feature when posting my pictures from BarCampAustin to flickr. I took the pictures with the N90, copied them over Bluetooth to the 770 using the 770’s File Manager, and posted to flickr using the 770’s browser and wifi connection! In a crunch, I’ve also exploited this feature to move files to my 770 (which doesn’t support OBEX push out-of-the-box.)
Next on the toy-list, I badly want a Bluetooth GPS unit to tie the 770 to… especially after seeing this: “Bluetooth GPS and GPSDrive on the Nokia 770!” I’m leaning toward a Nokia LD-3W (because it uses a Nokia battery, and I have plenty of those); However, that unit doesn’t seem to be shipping yet. (The older LD-1W is available, but it’s a little pricey IMO.)
Originally from [eriksmartt.com/blog] by reBlogged
