February 2010
49 posts
Video: Future Man →
An animated short about post-apocalyptic ant people, directed by Ryō Hirano.
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RIP, Hummer →
Having failed to sell the Hummer brand off to a Chinese car manufacturer, GM is shutting it down. This car was like the high-fructose corn syrup of automobiles, something that concentrated everything…
Urban legends from Meiji-period Japan →
In the Meiji period (1868-1912), Japan ended centuries of isolation and entered a period of rapid modernization after opening its doors to the world. The ensuing social and technological changes…
RIP, Hummer →
Having failed to sell the Hummer brand off to a Chinese car manufacturer, GM is shutting it down. This car was like the high-fructose corn syrup of automobiles, something that concentrated everything…
sciencecomedian: RT @brainshow If the human brain... →
sciencecomedian: RT @brainshow If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t - Emerson M. Pugh
Conan's on Twitter (don't tell Leno, he might take... →
“Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.”— Conan O’Brien, newly minted Twitter user. His bio reads, “I had a show. Then I had a different show….
“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so...”
– Emerson M. Pugh
OpenStreetMaps + Geocoding + PyGTK →
An other few days an another UI improvement to macaco. For this past two days I have worked in yet another dialog used in macaco which was not exciting or different to those found in other…
Reinout van Rees: Software releases 2: packaging... →
Releasing python software basically means you make a zipfile of couple of
grouped-together python files. And of course this has to have a name,
version, etc. The standard way of doing this in…
Screw-in coffin patent issues →
Shared by Sulley
A step closer tu FUTURAMA
This is a choice selection of images from the application for U.S. patent 7,631,404, which has since issued to Donald Scruggs of Chino, CA….
GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.3 Video →
OK here is a video…
<object height=”344” width=”425”><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Adfe8-QTaHk&hl=en_US&fs=1&”><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”><param…
Banshee Community Extensions →
Introduction Writing a Banshee extension and getting it into users’ hands has never been easier. We have started a new sub-project called Banshee Community Extensions (BCE), collecting various…
Tequila balls, the Kabukicho version of jello... →
There’s a new drink making waves at karaoke bars and hostess clubs in Kabukicho. It’s called a Tequila ball, and it looks like a nicely presented jello shot. According to the manager of…
Blind To Reason →
(Supermarket | Cincinnati, OH, USA)
(A customer walks in with a small dog in her purse.)
Me: “Excuse me, miss, but you can’t have your dog in here. You’ll need to leave it in your car.”
…
The latest in the battle against Japanese whaling →
In case you haven’t been following the battle of Australian activist group Sea Shepherds vs. the Japanese whalers, this video from World News Australia shows the latest. Apparently, a Sea…
Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo –> Join us! →
BIG NEWS TODAY meego.com + video from MeeGo Steering Group + video from Nokia & Intel
This is a move that many had desired. On the paper it just made so much sense. However, not…
MeeGo or Maemo grown up →
Wee..! Big news – Intel and Nokia joining their open source software platforms Maemo and Moblin into a single one: Meego
So what does this mean for developers and device…
Ned Batchelder: Couchio is hiring →
Damien Katz has started Couchio to provide CouchDb hosting services.
He’s looking to hire an infrastructure engineer.
It should be an interesting gig for a few reasons. Start by reading…
How a Simple URL Hack Can Expose Your Gmail... →
Google raised a lot of privacy concerns this week over things like allowing people to figure out your private email address in Buzz replies. Security weblog Social Hacking details another…
Make Images 3D sans Goofy Glasses [Photography] →
3D pictures are interesting, but they rely on glasses that alter the way your left and right eye perceive images. This cool 3D image-creation technique doesn’t require glasses but still…
Having fun with PyGooCanvas →
I have been recently improving the UI of macaco-contacts to ensure that is more usable. One of the things I had in my TODO list was to provide a decent dialog to choose an avatar for a contact. In…
Tips and tricks for using Desktopcouch →
The main goal I had in my talk at FOSDEM was to try and pint point the different problems and tricks that are useful for developers wanting to use Desktopcouch. After the talk I realized that that…
Is NoSQL Finally Going Mainstream? →
Its been a while since I enjoyed my adventures with CouchDB. I sure wish I could have some extra time to pick this up again, but getting some sleep at night is nice too once in a while. I noticed…
Vintage Streetcar Looks Like a "Rolling... →
This turquoise-and-orange PCC streetcar is one of the most recent additions to San Francisco’s vintage streetcar fleet, and I’ve heard several locals say it’s…
It's "mixing," not plagiarism, says much-lauded... →
Helene Hegemann, a celebrated author and playwright in Berlin who’s all of 17 years of age, is at the center of a plagiarism controversy after blogger Deef Pirmasens “last week uncovered material…
Silverlight Validation & Tootip Styles... →
Silverlight 3 comes with built-in validation for many of the input controls. Setting them up is fairly easy and they are styled well enough
that you could use them right out of the box. If you… …
Raptor devours cheerleader →
Video link at Mag.ma. Happy weekend, everyone. (thanks, Andrew Baron!)
Brackets and Dynamixels and Bioloids Oh My! →
We’ve been a bit quiet around here lately, mostly because we have our heads buried and are hard at work at bringing you guys some awesome new robotics products and kits! Wanted to take…
Inventor of Frisbee dies at 90 →
The man who invented the Frisbee in the 1950s, Walter Frederick Morrison, dies aged 90 at his home in Utah.
Non Linear Presentation using SketchFlow →
I’m giving a talk tonight on MetaSharp and I’ve decided to use SketchFlow instead of Powerpoint to present my talking points. The topic is complex and I want the audience to be more interactive…
Black History Month: Big Willie, Tomiko, and the... →
Big Willie and Chicago’s Chris “The Golden Greek” Karamasines
A few years ago I posted a Black History Month essay on the history of Black drag racing, in which I mentioned the great…
Jake Shimabukuro plays Bohemian Rhapsody on the... →
Jake Shimabukuro, the thirty-something year old Japanese-American ukulele player from Hawaii, played his version of Bohemian Rhapsody at the TED conference today. I unfortunately was not…
Video: Tiger on the loose at Ueno Zoo →
A tiger ran wild through Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo yesterday as part of a biannual escaped animal drill.
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This year’s simulation involved a tiger that escaped after an earthquake. The…
WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw →
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What makes Blip tick? →
After our Tabletop Pong project, someone suggested that we should check out the Tomy Blip, a handheld game dating to 1977.
And so we did. We snagged one on eBay, and here it is: “Blip,…
CodeSOD: Quite Contrary →
Mike writes, “Oh, the things that I find in our codebase.”
“I have no idea who put this in, or why it was put in. But it’s there, and it’s somehow called in a few places. As tempted as I was to…
Glitch: the new game from Flickr co-founder... →
Steward Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, has just launched his next act, a web-based multiplayer game called “Glitch.” It sounds a lot like the original game behind Flickr, Game Neverending, full…
How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on... →
I like this illusion.
How to levitate by standing next to a wet spot on... →
I like this illusion.
Eromanga Island has disappeared →
Eromanga Island, a tiny island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, has been swallowed up by rising sea levels, according to a long-standing rumor in Japan.
View of Eromanga Island on the…
Glitch: the new game from Flickr co-founder... →
Steward Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, has just launched his next act, a web-based multiplayer game called “Glitch.” It sounds a lot like the original game behind Flickr, Game Neverending, full…
Star Wars galaxy posters →
Justin Van Genderen designed a sharp series of minimalist posters representing various locations in the Star Wars galaxy. Terrific work! (via Laughing Squid)
Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google... →
News story, auto-translated to English in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. More on Google Maps. (thanks, BB reader Kjetil Rydland in Norway!)
Guy Van Sanden: RE:... →
The Open Sourcerer is running a blog post titled “Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft?”
The author does make some valid points regarding issues like proprietary software in Ubuntu and…
mongoengine at master from hmarr's mongoengine -... →
FOSDEM + Desktopcouch →
On an unpredicted sucession of events I have moved from helping in the cloakroom of FOSDEM to give a talk on Desktopcouch. In the talk I will focus on desktopcouch and will get into detail of how…
