Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2006 No Comments »
This thing is a pen-based tablet that doubles as a monitor. In other words you draw directly on the tablet, just like a paper-based drawing, but digitally. In fact the surface of the Cintq monitor/tablet feels like paper under a pen. Synchrony of image with your movements is almost exact, and the micro difference [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly [...]
Posted in non sequitar on Oct 30th, 2006 No Comments »
I am constantly running out of space on my hard drives. And, every time I do, windows starts complaining about the amount of space available. It will then offer to scan the drives for ‘recoverable’ space – calculate how much crap is in your recycle bin, how many temporary files you have lying around wasting [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Excuse me for this quick second, but I have a post here that isn’t intended for humans. It’s intended for the spiders that troll the web, and figuring out what links to what. By linking the following candidates names to relevant information about them, search engines will make sure that when someone searches for [...]
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” – Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t know quite how much of the conspiracy part of this very insightful and engaging documentary on Peak Oil and the current administration’s relationship to 9-11, but the conclusions are irefutable. We are in serious trouble. More serious than a corrupt government, more [...]
Posted in General on Oct 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I wish I had the talent to make the mess around me look this cool.
Dust Art
Posted in General on Oct 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Copy the following in to a browser on an image filled page. Like this one, I suppose.
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName(”img”); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+”px”; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+”px”}R++}setInterval(’A()’,5); void(0);
Courtesy of StopGeek.com
Posted in General on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
This is very cool. Make sure you check them all out:
whitney music box var. 11 – minute waltz – 60 keys, 60 seconds
Posted in General on Oct 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Another time destroyer – make a little MS Paint sketch and have flickr spit back equivalent images. Cool.
retrievr – search by sketch / search by image
Posted in General on Oct 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Well, there you have it. A programmer testifies that he was hired to write election altering code before the 2004 elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs