del.icio.us + flickr + twitter
RT @Alex_Diamond: That's it! I'm calling out @DakotaSmith and @EmilyAnderson's friend Kyle. Beyond Gingerdome - three go in, one comes o ...
RT @mermodynamics: http://imagesoak.com should now look lovely on your iPhone as well.
RT @fluxistrad: RT @maura: RT @marathonpacks: The best music-related social network: music.
RT @fluxistrad: As long as Ping users can't invite me to their shitty events, I'm fine with it.
@mat I couldn't find Pavement on rdio. So I stopped there. Has that changed?
Thanks for all the love guys!
Oh and fuck cancer.
Thirteen years ago today I was given a lesson in loss. Love your parents, love who they love.
RT @abirae: RT @K_records: Save ktru: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/save-ktru/ #savektru #Houston
RT @nealpollack: Stretch is #6 on Bookpeople's bestseller list this week. http://www.statesman.com/life/books/886451.html
SoX - Sound eXchange | HomePage
SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.
http://sox.sourceforge.net/
Extract images from a web page with PHP and the Simple HTML DOM Parser
After posting about how to get the meta tags from an HTML web page with PHP I was asked how to get the images from an HTML page with PHP like how Facebook does when a link is posted. This post looks at how to get the image URLs from a page using the Simple HTLM DOM Parser library and in a later post I'll look at how to download the images and make thumbnails.
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/extract-images-web-page-php/
Vince Cima — Using TextMate as Mercurial's Editor
Much like with Git, its easy to use TextMate as the editor that Mercurial will use for commit messages.
http://vincecima.com/post/578017364/using-textmate-as-mercurials-editor
Passwordless ssh logins
The following process may be used to generate a ssh protocol 2 rsa key pair and to configure an ssh server for passwordless ssh logins.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Passwordless_ssh_logins.html
jag2kn blog: MongoDB en Dreamhost (basic)
¿Si se puede compilar PHP5 por que no se puede utilizar MongoDB?
Esa fue la pregunta con la que inicie el proceso para instarlar Mongo en Dreamhost en una cuenta normal
http://jag2kn.blogspot.com/2010/07/mongodb-en-dreamhost-basic.html
How to Setup MongoDB PHP Extension on Shared Hosting
Want to use MongoDB but don’t want to switch to a more expensive hosting plan? This is a great alternative that I got working on Dreamhost in less than an hour!
http://blog.pnapieralski.com/mongodb/how-to-setup-mongodb-php-extension-on-shared-hosting/
Orpheus and Eurydice
Be warned: this story is beautiful but tragic. It begins with Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived
http://www.paleothea.com/Myths/Orpheus.html
Enjoymentland » Random thoughts on being in charge
I think a lot of grief in social situations can be examined in this context.
* Is someone in charge of something that they don’t want to be in charge of?
* Is someone not in charge of something that they want to be in charge of?
* Is there confusion about who is in charge of something?
* Are you and others managing the weak spots of their in charge areas with competence?
* Is someone feeling under-appreciated for the effort required to be in charge of something?
http://enjoymentland.com/2010/08/15/random-thoughts-on-being-in-charge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+enjoymentland+%28Enjoymentland%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery.
http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
TextMate Blog » HTML output for commands
As you probably know, TextMate derives a lot of power from the underlying shell infrastructure in OS X. A place where this is evident is in the bundle editor, which allow you to (amongst others) setup (shell) commands and scripts to run.
http://blog.macromates.com/2005/html-output-for-commands/
Vision Research Digital High-Speed Solutions: Miro1 Rental (w/ Color camera)
Rent a Miro eX1 camera for a 2 day rental for $750 and apply the rental price towards the purchase price of a Miro eX1 camera. Note: $450 will be charged for each additional day.
http://www.visionresearch.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_ID=184&ParentCat=16
Installing iMac Intel 17" Hard Drive Replacement - iFixit
[Oh god]
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iMac-Intel-17-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/891/1
Twitter for iPhone - Custom URL Shortening API
http://developer.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/custom-shortening/
U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents
[Brilliant]
http://cryptogon.com/?p=16709
Beatrice City Attorney
The original Homestead Act signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, had a significant impact on the City of Beatrice and Gage County. In connection with this historic piece of legislation, the City of Beatrice is proud to announce the Homestead Act of 2010. Like the original Homestead Act, the Homestead Act of 2010 offers applicants the opportunity to acquire a parcel of real estate if they build a residence on the land and it is their primary residence for five years. At this time, the City of Beatrice is offering several lots as homestead property. If you are interested in participating in the Homestead Act of 2010, please review the contract and contact Tobias J. Tempelmeyer, City Attorney, at 228-5211. Act now as the land will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
http://www.beatrice.ne.gov/departments/city/attorney/homestead.shtml
Hoppala
HOPPALA! Augmentation provides an easy way for non-technical creatives to start experimenting with augmented reality and Layar. Create your own augmented reality experiences with just some mouse clicks and publish your work at Layar, the world‘s largest augmented reality platform.
http://www.hoppala.eu/
Real Editors Ship (Ftrain.com)
Editors are really valuable, and, the way things are going, undervalued. These are people who are good at process. They think about calendars, schedules, checklists, and get freaked out when schedules slip. Their jobs are to aggregate information, parse it, restructure it, and make sure it meets standards. They are basically QA for language and meaning.
http://www.ftrain.com/editors-ship-dammit.html
mail me daily
subscribe to email updates from your favorite web sites and wake up refreshed | RSS by email without the fuss
http://mailmedaily.com/
Opricot
Opricot is a web-based administration tool for MongoDB servers and databases. Use as a point-and-click adventure for basic tasks, utilize scripting for automated processing or repetitive things.
http://www.icmfinland.fi/oss/opricot/
MongoDB Aggregation III: Map-Reduce Basics | Kyle Banker
If you’re accustomed to working with relational databases, the thought of specifying aggregations with map-reduce may be a bit intimidating. Here, in the third in a series of articles on MongoDB aggregation, I explain map-reduce. After reading this, and with a little practice, you’ll be able to apply the map-reduce paradigm to a huge number of aggregation problems.
http://kylebanker.com/blog/2009/12/mongodb-map-reduce-basics/
MongoDB and E-commerce | Kyle Banker
The hesitant reaction there expressed is understandable, as most of the databases falling under the NoSQL umbrella would fare poorly in an e-commerce setting. But this is not the case with MongoDB. Indeed, with its support for rich data models, dynamic, indexed queries, atomic operations, and replicated writes, MongoDB can be a viable and even desirable database for e-commerce; here’s why.
http://kylebanker.com/blog/2010/04/30/mongodb-and-ecommerce/
USSSP - Clipart & Library
[Cubscout clipart]
http://clipart.usscouts.org/library/BSA_Insignia/BSA_Merit_Badges/Clipart_bw/
List of Batman (TV series) episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Batman_(TV_series)_episodes
HOW TO: Downgrade iPhone OS 4.0 To 3.1.3 [ Mac and Windows ]
[I can't tell if Mom would be better off with the old 3G on 3.1.3 or 4.0]
http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/downgrade-iphone-os-40-313-mac-windows
Upgrade Your Apple MacBook: Data Backup and Preservation.
Here's how I upgraded my hard drive to 320 Gigs while upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard and installing Time Machine. All while keeping all my old applications and data safe.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fossilize-Your-Apple-MacBook-Data-Backup-and-Pres/?ALLSTEPS
Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts
In each of the charts below look for the year 1981, when Reagan took office.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/16/876547/-Reagan-Revolution-Home-To-RoostIn-Charts
AFP548 - launchd in Depth
When launchd scans a folder, or a job is submitted with launchctl, it depends on a properly formatted plist file that describes the job to be run. This is, for most sysadmins, is the most difficult area of launchd to grasp. SystemStarter used simple shell scripts to launch daemons. launchd requires the admin to be able to properly format an XML file and while not exceedingly difficult, it can be confusing.
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20050620071558293
Securimage CAPTCHA - Free PHP Captcha Script
Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.
http://www.phpcaptcha.org/
How hard is it to re-write the past? Pretty easy, it turns out | Technoccult
We altered or fabricated five events: Sen. Joe Lieberman voting to convict President Clinton at his impeachment trial (Lieberman actually voted for acquittal); Vice President Cheney rebuking Sen. John Edwards in their debate for mentioning Cheney’s lesbian daughter (in fact, Cheney thanked him); President Bush relaxing at his ranch with Roger Clemens during Hurricane Katrina (Bush was at the White House that day, and Clemens didn’t visit the ranch); Hillary Clinton using Jeremiah Wright in a 2008 TV ad (she never did); and President Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (it never happened).
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/LQ85Qu4lS6c/
The Swinger « Music Machinery
One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.
http://musicmachinery.com/2010/05/21/the-swinger/
Beyond the Motor City ~ [Video] | Blueprint America | PBS
[Soundtrack by Neil Cleary]
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/beyond-the-motor-city/video/939/
jQuery for Designers - Tutorials and screencasts
Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery [On the fence on this one, since I am not a designer. But, I also do not know jQuery]
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/
Foreign Policy: Why The U.S. Dollar Is Like Facebook : NPR
[This is the only part of the metaphor worth reading] There is one warning, however — Facebook's hegemony will seem impregnable right up to the moment it collapses. Because the attraciveness of these sites depends on the number of other users, there's always the possibility that an inflection point is reached in which everyone migrates from Facebook to Orkut or something else. And when that does happen, the fall of Facebook will be fast and hard.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126604005
Apple rocks the cat box with synchronized lyrics patent application
The patent application covers the synchronized display of text (mostly lyrics) on a portable media player, meaning that your iPod or iPhone would show you lyrics or other dynamic text at appropriate points in the song (Pop-Up Video, anyone?). The synchronization would use either a separate, specially-formatted lyrics file that could be "played" along with the music, or with a specially-encoded file containing lyrics as well as the song itself.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/07/apple-rocks-the-cat-box-with-synchronized-lyrics-patent-application.ars
Synchronized Song Lyrics
Now you can listen to your music and get the lyrics played back in time to the music. The ALSong Lyrics window plays back song lyrics synchronized to the music, with the currently playing line highlighted for you.
There are lots of lyrics already in the system, and often ALSong can automatically recognize your music and link it to the right song lyrics. But if ALSong doesn't automatically recognize your music, you can search the massive ALSong Song Lyrics Server database and connect your music with its lyrics.
http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALSong/Features/Sync-Song-Lyrics.aspx
Add Lyrics to Music Files
You can add lyrics to music files in Windows Media Player 10 that appear in the Now Playing feature when you play the files. Lyrics can be either static or synchronized: Static lyrics appear all at once for the entire song, which you can scroll through as the song plays; synchronized lyrics appear during the song at times that you set
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/howto/addlyrics.aspx
getID3() - getid3.check.php (sample script)
synchedlyrics
http://www.getid3.org/demo/MP3%20-%20lyrics3_synched.mp3.html
getID3() - The PHP media file parser
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information (such as ID3 tags, bitrate, playtime, etc.) from MP3s & other multimedia file formats (Ogg, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, AVI, AAC, VQF, FLAC, MusePack, Real, QuickTime, Monkey's Audio, MIDI and more).
http://getid3.sourceforge.net/
eyeD3 0.6.17
eyeD3 is a Python module and program for processing ID3 tags. Information about mp3 files (i.e bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.) is also provided. The formats supported are ID3 v1.0/v1.1 and v2.3/v2.4.
http://eyed3.nicfit.net/
OneWay — Contextual FTP, SFTP uploader for Mac OS X
Upload files directly from Finder. Save frequently used locations in your Context Menu for quick access. Simply Select the Files or Folders you want to upload and then ctrl+click to send them anywhere.
http://goto11.net/oneway/
Fielding Dissertation: CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
Slit-scan Photography (Stockholm Geekmeet presentation) - Peter Krantz
The processing code for time lapse captures through the iSight camera with a static centered slit looks like this:
http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/slit-scan-photography/
ffffound + flickr + twitter
Your words indicate how important you think it is.
Your actions indicate how important it actually is.
The gap matters.
Remy
kind of bombed on vicodin and playing with legos. i honestly don't know if life could be any better.
whateverdude
“Of course we can afford a government that actually works; your parents have simply chosen not to have it.” http//j.mp/aQUc7O
monstro
