Amazing what you see when you have your cameraphone with you. Possibly Related Posts: A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week of great tools Discount shiny things BBC iPlayer on Linux!
I don’t often post code (in fact, this might be the first time) but using a bit of google foo, a bit of bodging, heres a motion detector in Processing.org (my language of choice at the moment). So here’s the file for you…movin and here’s a picture of it in action Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed [...]
I bought a wiiMote a little while ago because, well, they looked fun. No other real reason. Here’s how I got it up and running with my favorite programming environment, processing.org Firstly, you need to make your laptop have “blue teeth” luckily my iBook came with these coloured nashers, which I’ve not really used and [...]
In the last week I’ve come across some brilliant tools to make my digital life easier, so I throught I’d better share. The Refresh Newcastle group put me onto some, and Google did the rest as and when I found I needed something. MAMP I do most of my development work on a php/mySQL stack, [...]
Check out the amazing amazon discount thingy. Shiny shiny for discounted money, oh yes. Possibly Related Posts: Multiple photo fails A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week of great tools BBC iPlayer on Linux!
BBC iPlayer is available on Linux! Sing and dance! It’s making programs available in Flash, but it should work! Yay! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum
I really love indexed, teeny tiny bits of genius on index cards. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools Make your RSS feeds trackable
I’ve been using and writing for trustedplaces.com for about a year now, and I love it. Its really cool to be able to post up your own stuff and have people feedback to you how they found it, and it can be dead handy for finding places to eat in cities you’re not well versed [...]
xkcd + firefly Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
Congratulations to my wife (sic) for being voted “Cameraphone Photographer of the Year“ Possibly Related Posts: Multiple photo fails A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week of great tools Discount shiny things
He does not fear the health and safety Nazis! He is a geek and proud! He makes and burns things! His Secret Life of Machines remains my favorite ever peice of TV. Whom else could say “
I love the work being done by the crew at Guerrilla Gardening. In a world of red tape, beurocracy (spelling?), and health and safety, surely planting up waste ground and “social spaces” is a great thing? The planting that goes on in social spaces is generally terrible. If I see another greying bank of scrubby [...]
Yes, this got me very excited. Very. “In a couple of weeks the BBC World Service will be recording a dramatisation of ANANSI BOYS, starring Lenny Henry and Matt Lucas” Possibly Related Posts: Multiple photo fails A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week [...]
Lost from the net for a little big of timne, CatCam is back! Follow Mr Lee’s adventures. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = …. E by gum
One of my favorite songs, both in content and colour, is The Elements by Tom Lehrer. I aim to learn it at some point: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium [...]
One of my favorite songs, both in content and colour, is The Elements by Tom Lehrer. I aim to learn it at some point: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium [...]
As if perfectly timed with my rant this morning aboutiTunes and the need to be able to tag mp3s, here’s an interesting diagram about “the cycle of hype” around tagging. We are entering the phase whereby tagging stops being attempted to be used as a silver bullet, and slowly finding what its really good for. [...]
I very much doubt that it is energy efficient, as microwaves eat electricity, but if solar or wind power could be used to drive this device which turns plastics back into lliquid hydrocarbon mixes (aka. oil, petrol, fuels) then maybe we can avoid the situation which was detailed in Alien where oil was being trucked [...]
This is great to see – the Tate’s website for the How We Are exebihion, using Flickr to backend it’s photos – meaning you can see the EXIF data on how the photo was taken fro some of them. Fabouls use of technology (and some shiny photos too). Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing [...]
I’ve just signed up for lovefilm.couk (3 months free! rockin). Now – what should I watch? Please elave your recommendations… Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
For so many reasons, not of which I can easily put into words at 1:48am, I love Heatherwick Studio nd the work of Thomas Heatherwick. It reminds me of the crazy brainstorming sessions I used to end up participating in when I worked for a small landscapers, and over the course of lunch, the aftertoon [...]
My old flatmate has just pointed out that if they ever made a Starwars Wii game, give lightsabre duals, it would be… AMAZING! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
This is just incredible. At the moment fabrication machines (aka. 3d printers) cost the Earth (and an arm, and a leg), but evilmadscientistLabs have homebrewed one that runs on…sugar! Caramelising it into 3d models! Amazing! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi [...]
After being amazed at Gilbert and George’s amazinf photoshop/illustrator skills the other night, I have resolved… a)A tablet is needed. b)lots of tutorials need to be read and played with. Step right up Smashing Magazine’s Photoshop Tutorial Archive! Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! [...]
I’m not a huge HP LOvecraft fan (in fact I’m pretty sure I’ve not read anything y him infact), however – you can’t help adorring My Little Cthulhu. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Forget the deli, find a German Making your wireless router from [...]
After a little experimentation, I’ve made my own remote control HID file for my Sony Erikson k800i. It was remarkably easy. I was going to upload it to here, but it turns out many many people have done it before and far better, and a little googling with the right phrase “sony itunes hid bluetooth” [...]
making up for the fact I’m knocking my arse out in the office over a weekend and had to leave my lass to amuse herself in a city she doesn’t know, I’ve made the front page of trustedplace.com again with my review of Pierre’s Baguette’s Baocn sandwiches. Wicked. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter [...]
… of trustedplaces.com Yes – in a world excusive I can reveal that yesterday my review of the Hobgoblin in Reading made the fonrt page of trustedplaces.com. Wicked. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open [...]
When Firefly was dropped form TV, it was an odd time in TV history. If it has stayed on TV, it would have been another OK tv series. By cancelling it, it was catapulted it into history as a great TV series. Couple it with Serenity film, and you have a total winning package. It’s [...]