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P5 Sketch: Sprites and Feedback Texture Rendering
Made a thing in an "introduction to programming" class where non-engineers learned to write code. I might actually stick ...

Heatmap Calendars of Last.fm Scrobbles
After five amazing years at Last.fm I decided to hand in my notice a few months ago, my last day ...

Noise Making Machines
Diy 02 by dekstop ...

Young Hackspace
In early 2011 we started the Young Hackspace: a monthly event where we invite groups of young children or ...

Music Feeds -- Pop Culture Snippets, Opinionated Commentary, and Lots and Lots of Noise
Last weekend I was at the music hack day in London, organised by Dave Haynes and James Darling: a two-day ...

Field: Next-Gen IDE for Generative Design
Mark Downie on the Field-development list: More seriously, the trick I think with Processing is that it has been ...

Google News Almost Bankrupts Multinational
This is mind-boggling. Think of the possibilities. Bringing down companies with a bit of crowdsourcing? Check. The Wall Street Journal ...

Pool Radio: An Aggregator of Mediators
Over the past extended weekend I created Pool Radio, a tool that provides access to hopefully interesting Last.fm radio stations. ...

Hadoop Summit 2008
Johan and I were overjoyed: last week Last.fm sent us to the Hadoop Summit 2008 in Santa Clara, California. ...

Brave. New. Etc
Photo by mlcastle, taken at 24c3. ...

Creatures Demo Sketch
... needs Java. Might post a description later. Update 2007-12-21 I spent a bit of time making swarming actually ...

/me dreams of being an analyst
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Yahoo Login Being a Snob
[13:28] • martind is trying to create yet another yahoo account [13:28] martind: and it fails to do so, ...

Podcasts, Mixtapes, and Post-Apocalyptic Lover's Rock
Over the last couple of weeks I finally revived the old habit of scouting for interesting bits of pop culture ...

Prepaid MasterCards: the Missing Link in Financial Privacy
Yesterday on the tube to Brixton I saw an ad for a really exciting product: a prepaid MasterCard. The ...

Rough Trade East: Gorgeous
Oh boy. The new Rough Trade store (inside the Old Truman Brewery, just off Brick Lane) is the bomb. ...

MovableType 4: New License
Your use of the Software is limited to a fixed number of users and weblogs, as defined below and ...

JRuby as Interactive Java Shell
Get the JRuby Console, and then do stuff like this: irb(main):001:0> require 'java' => true irb(main):002:0> p = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile("/music/[^/]+/\\+images/[^/?]+?(?:\\?.*)?") => ...

internet publishing software still sucks.
Interesting how they managed to make a simple URL much more cryptic. I imagine the author simply pasted this ...

new wallet £5
Unfortunately the stationers was out of black tape. I like the simplicity of this model, it's even more reduced ...

Teaser: Offline Feed Reader for Your iPod
As recently mentioned I was looking for useful hacks for the iPod Notes feature, and as Google didn't turn ...

Hidden Folders on the iPod
A friend just told me this: Turns out the MP3s on your iPod are completely accessible, even without any dedicated ...

Read alt.tv.buffy on the Bus
Started browsing around for interesting hacks for the iPod Notes feature (are there any good offline feed readers for that? ...

mjuzak: london fields barbecue
Felt like trying out virb's flash player embed. Not sure if they actually want you to do that -- after ...

fake? no fake?
If I worked at apple I'd change my useragent just to mess with people. ...

Best Comment Spam Ever
IP Address: 81.177.22.216 Name: PreobrajenskySuka1 Email Address: URL: http://university-of-phoen0.blogspot.com/ Comments: Sorry, but topic starter, <b>you are sure?</b> prof.Preobrajensky. Good ...

The End of Narrative
Finally had a brief glance over Lev Manovich's "Database as symbolic form" (can't remember why I bookmarked it), was underwhelmed. ...

got meself some pedals
Bought some cheap second-hand gear from a friend of a friend, just did a quick test recording. Two distortion ...

Casual Friday, Last.fm Edition
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From My Inbox
Just received this message from pool-151-202-103-233.ny325.east.verizon.net (the person didn't leave a name) -- You have difficulty authorizing Ableton Live? You ...

On Black WASPs, Elongated Labiae, the Bustle, and Giant African Asses
The Guardian recently had two fascinating articles in the context of race in their history section. First last week's 'Flesh ...

Swing Zombie
For a completely unrelated reason I was browsing old code project directories and found a copy of Stringulator, a throwaway ...

Datavis Teaser
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New Hotlinking Policy
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?dekstop\.de [NC] # old rule #RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [NC,F] # new rule RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ ...

Mjuzak: Chrrrrrrruaeeeeeee!
Cheap laptop mic -> AU Lab -> lots of amplification, some EQ, compression -> MP3. I love this lofi ...

OpenID: Making Throw-Away Accounts Reusable Since 2005
Since there are so many announcements about OpenID these days I decided it's time to actually have a look at ...

Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Just saw this at a bookstore. Flicked through it, looks great, doesn't seem like a fluff piece. Lots of ...

Chart Stream: Visualizing Music Listening Behavior, Pt 2
A simple visualisation of a user's music listening habits over time, derived from their weekly Last.fm artist charts. Safari/Firefox ...

Slowly Getting There...
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Putting SpiderMonkey in Your Shell
Was browsing the Mozilla developer docs, curious about their documentation on JavaScript language updates over the different Firefox versions (JS ...

Station Sharing is Go!
I don't typically use this blog to post feature announcements of my employer, but this one thing we just launched ...

A Short List of Stuff That Makes My Life Easier
Having \n as the only type of newline. TSV as ubiquitous data exchange file format -- it even has ...

Fuck Convenience
So regarding that upcoming + forced Flickr-Yahoo-ID merger... got the email a couple of days ago, read the Slashdot thread, ...

Compromised
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Apple's Proprietary .dmg Encryption Successfully Reverse-engineered
I'm start to look into more secure ways to store sensitive data, and Apple's encrypted DMG disk images seem like ...

"I first heard rock and soul songs on a tiny crappy-sounding transistor radio, and it changed my life completely"
Just read David Byrne's Crappy Sound Forever!, in which he relates the evolution of popular and classical music as a ...

How to Inspire Confidence and Win New Friends
People seem to be migrating in drones from the former golden boy of the Rails community: the Typo blogging engine. ...

Digicam Stop-motion: My Great Movie.mp4
I finally have a digital camera again, and it's a great toy! Used iMovie 5 for this, but don't ...

Updates
Oh, and regarding my last article: I'm told I'm full of shit. ...

Aonther East-West Divide, London Transport, and a Yay For Data Mineable Convenience...
(Just found this in my notes, written a couple of weeks ago, just days after coming to London.) london ...

Searching for volunteers: Heralds at 23C3
Photo by smallcaps. Update: Just found a nice (and brief!) introduction to the Chaos Communication Congress at 46halbe.org, just ...

Jokosher, and a New Class of Media Applications
Since I got my PowerBook early last year I'm on the search for decent alternatives to some of the applications ...

The Cairo Graphics Framework
I was searching for a fast and modern graphing framework for server-side image generation (ImageMagick == too much hassle, ...

Beautiful Data
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Chart Arcs: Visualizing Music Listening Behavior
(From my Last.fm journal) A little while ago I implemented another visualization roughly based on Martin Wattenberg's arc diagrams. It's ...

Datavis Teaser...
Last.fm station of the day: Trentemøller similar artist radio. ...

Installing Linksys WUSB11 2.8 on OS X
The following text explains how to get the Linksys WUSB11 2.8 working on OS X, and probably any other wifi ...

Renamed Ruby Script Downloads
A couple of weeks ago my ISP apparently added Apache support for Ruby scripts, which they didn't provide until recently. ...

IRC Arcs: Visualizing IRC Communication Behavior
I just completed a simple visualization of IRC communication behavior, you can see the graphics at mardoen.textdriven.com/irc_arcs/ -- this ...

London Places: Blue Note
I thought I should start documenting some of the places I found in London. I'm mainly moving around in the ...

Mjuzak: "freq08"
Still pretty busy right now, so still no new posts for now... be patient. Download freq08.mp3 (2.8 MB, 02:27 mins) ...

Closing Comments for the Next Weeks
I'm closing the comments down for now, as I'm quite busy with other stuff and simply don't want to handle ...

Creating PNG from Memory Pixel Buffers with RMagick
Just so I won't forget, and because it's useful to know. require 'RMagick' # generate rgb image buffer pixeldata = ...

OPML Search Results for Feed Grazing
I just found that StrategicBoard offers their keyword search results in an OPML format that contains feed URLs -- which ...

Spotlight Helps Fight Comment Spam!
I'm using a combination of fairly primitive methods to cope with blog spam. As this blog doesn't get too much ...

Jimmy Wales Believes in Participatory Democracy, Too
Via the De:Bug Blog I just came upon the "Mission Statement" of Jimmy Wales' new site, Campaigns Wikia: Blog and ...

Warschauer Straße: Does Not Share
I just returned from a concert at WM Lounge, one of these places in Berlin that suddenly cropped up ...

MidnightBot II: 'No Errors?' (Hah)
This is an updated version of the first MidnightBot article where I visualize the times of day that people post ...

Douglas Coupland, JPod
Douglas Coupland - JPod. Page 190 of 449, as seen through the lense of my alien surveillance equipment. (view ...

East Timor
I first heard of East Timor by watching "Manufacturing Consent", a documentary on Noam Chomsky. In this film Chomsky calls ...

"Tony Blair's Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people"
Today in the online edition of The Indepentent: "Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested", by Henry ...

MidnightBot: When People Post
I started to think about the different times of day people post on their blogs, and wondered what that said ...

Mjuzak: "everybody turns"
I finally found a decent way to produce music on my PowerBook. That was the last thing missing after I ...

ETags Support in Aggregators
Did you notice Sam Ruby's new preoccupation with ETags? When he's talking with founders about their new web services, "the ...

Data Mining for World Peace
Just listened to a recent edition of Radio Open Source on the NSA wiretapping case, and was struck by how ...

"Sie beachteten die Informationsleiste?"
I'm an avid OS X user, but that doesn't mean I'm not curious about other systems. At the moment I'm ...

Stripping iTunes' Podcast-related ID3 Tags
I've been suffering from a minor iTunes annoyance for a while now and finally decided to look into it: There ...

So What's a Functional Language, Then?
A couple of days ago Chaosradio Express published another great podcast: "Programmiersprachen und Dylan", a conversation between Tim Pritlove and ...

pointlesswasteoftime.com RSS Feed
Via http://del.icio.us/deusx I found Pointless Waste of Time's Life After the Video Game Crash, and enjoyed it. As the rest ...

A Pandora's Box of Weird Podcasts
By pure chance I just stumbled over a Pandora's box of weird podcasts. Starting point was a great experimental/minimal techno ...

Back from Datenspuren 2006
Yesterday night I returned from Datenspuren 2006 in Dresden, a conference on privacy and technology organized by the local CCC. ...

Mirror: "Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix"
I decided on a whim to mirror "Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix" on my server, at least ...

Tesla Salon: "verwertungsgesellschaften im digitalen zeitalter"
I just came home from an interesting discussion: the "tesla salon" had a session at club Podewil with the topic ...

"Downtime"
I've been silent for a couple of weeks now for a reason: I just submitted my finished diploma thesis (finally!), ...

YARV makes REXML > 200% faster
I finally found a good test case to compare YARV's execution speed with the plain ruby interpreter -- and the ...

Visiting Old Friends: Back on Windows, for Now
Last April, nearly exactly a year ago, I bought my first Mac (a 12" Powerbook), and after a while that ...

Added Article Feeds with Comments
I've just implemented article feeds for this blog, which is a great feature for everybody who wants to track ...

flOw: I Love This Game!
flOw has everything I wish from a good game -- it's simple, yet it sets a great mood; it ...

Bookmarklet: Display Feed Links on Current Page
I found an older article on the Google Reader blog where they post a great bookmarklet: It displays feeds ...

Feed Readers Are a Commodity -- If Not Now, then Soon.
While reading this: Google built a feed platform that is freely available for any user with a Google account. ... ...

Evil Grannies with Rucksack Bombs on My Internet!
A couple of days ago while looking for some cheap entertainment I found a two-part Channel 4 series called "The ...

New Del.icio.us URL History Page, with Bookmarklet
del.icio.us apparently has just added a feature that I've been wanting for a long time: It's now very easy ...

SQLite3FeedCache: A Custom Thread-Safe Database Cache for FeedTools
I just finished a first version of a custom database cache for FeedTools 0.2.23 -- basically a drop-in replacement ...

The Jabber Server Software Space Starts Boiling
I previously mentioned the all-Ruby Jabber server xmppd, a new project that is going to be really interesting once it's ...

Upcoming NNW 2.1 Beta 'Soon'
NetNewsWire's developer Brent Simmons has silently been busy during the last couple of months, and is now starting to talk ...

Surprise, Surprise: Music Software Still Sucks
I just wanted to check out the beta of Ableton Live 5.2 -- since switching to a Mac last ...

Late to the Party, As Usual
I'm a pretty geeky guy, but there are quite a number of technological trends that I've known for a ...

Low-Level Logging with Ruby
While browsing the Ruby presentation of Srdjan Marinovic I came upon the following snippet, a great example of what makes ...

Will Linux Adoption Increase with the Vista Release?
Reading some of the comments of another Slashdot article on Windows Vista made me aware once more that the landscape ...

Seek and You Will Find... Not?
Slick, Libre Charts? Either there is no great, simple application for well-designed charts and numeric diagrams on OS X, ...

First Public Performance of R470K
I just got a mail from Patrick, a friend of mine whose job mainly consists of working on very ...

Feed Me
I've been submitting feature requests and bug reports to the NetNewsWire forum -- Brent Simmons seems pretty responsive. I'm ...

Random Notes and Updates, and a Little Pop Culture
I make a lot of little notes in text files that never develop into a full article and eventually get ...

Parsing an OPML Document Recursively With Ruby While Preserving Its Structure
I just started to write an aggregator in Ruby which will form the basis of a number of web applications, ...

Finally: IBM Proposes Peer Review to Manage US Patent Applications
For the last couple of years I've been toying with ideas on how to cut back on my expenses, ...

How to Quickly Get an iTunes Podcast URL
A couple of days ago Jon Udell complained about the alledged "customer lock-in" in Apple's iTunes: ...although the podcast's ...

So del.icio.us Finally Moved...
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Erlang the Movie - Declarative Real Time Programming Now!
This must be the most entertaining short I've seen in months. A couple of very geeky Brits, introduced by a ...

Visualization of Numeric Data: A Brief Historical Overview
I just got a copy of Edward Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information', and while I only skimmed over ...

Flip4Mac WMV Has a Very Strange EULA
There currently are quite a number of very happy reactions over the announcement that Telestream's product Flip4Mac WMV is now ...

Serving .rhtml Files on OS X With Apache and ERB
This documents how Apache 1.3 on OS X can be set up to serve .rhtml files using Ruby's ERB ...

Revisiting Aggregators Part I: User-Designed Interfaces
Recently there have been a number of requests for new ideas in the aggregator market, and as I'm constantly dissatisfied ...

How to Tell GMail to Always Show the HTML Interface After You Log In
Just found out how to work around a major nuisance of GMail: the inability to select the low-tech HTML view ...

An OPML Feed of 22C3 Blogs
Another 22C3-related Ruby script: I thought it would be neat to convert the list of Weblogs writing about 22C3 into ...

A Printable Schedule for 22C3
Just before I left my house over the holidays I wanted to print out the schedule for 22C3, and found ...

Where Mailfeed.org Is Launched, and We Start Talking About a Conversation
I just had a couple of wonderful days of being busy deploying a new site, MailFeed.org. The site is a ...

Recommendations from your Database: The "Query By Example" Project for PostgreSQL
Query By Example by Meredith Patterson was one of this year's Google Summer of Code projects, and of all the ...

OS X 10.4.3: Minor Case of Phoning Home
I just updated to 10.4.3, and after the first reboot Little Snitch reported a network request by Dock.app to ...

Using the FeedTools Cache in Plain Ruby Scripts
FeedTools is an amazingly complete Ruby library by Bob Aman for accessing, parsing and generating feeds from within Ruby. While ...

How to Use the Rails Inflector in Your Ruby Scripts
I've written a Ruby script that extracts keywords from a MovableType-exported plaintext database, and while doing so wanted to include ...

Contact Form Spam Bots Ahead
On friday I received a message via my contact form that looked a lot like the comment spam that blogs ...

mailfeed.rb: Read Email in Your Feed Reader
A friend has asked me for a way to read email newsletters from within his feed reader, and after ...

Schedule for 22C3 is Now Online; Some Recommendations
The Fahrplan (schedule) for 22C3 (the Chaos Computer Club's Chaos Communication Congress) is now online, along with the blog, Flickr ...

First Prototype of Negroponte's $100 Laptop Revealed
There are more and more details emerging about MIT's/Nicholas Negroponte's $100 Laptop, and the more is revealed the more exciting ...

Interesting Idea: Type Managers are Replacing File Managers
There is an interesting post on Slashdot pointing to an article by Ben Meyer, about the concept of a Type ...

New Wave of Comment Spam: PageRank Indirection
There is another wave of comment spam coming to my site -- the new variant, where they don't post their ...

CollaborativeRank Says I'm an Expert on XML, Mining and Validation
CollaborativeRank is an interesting service that builds on the del.icio.us database. They provide bookmark search, a ranking of popular bookmarks, ...

SearchFox Not Suited for Aggregated, High-traffic Feeds? And Some Comments on Community Attention.
Just read in a comment by Esteban Kozak that SearchFox RSS uses both "attention and community data" when determining the ...

"Only you can make a dark man blush."
In today's server logfiles: 13 requests from a host called "teamramrod.com". This is a pretty obvious movie reference, yet it ...

Update on SearchFox's "Topics I Like"
I don't get it. Around the time I wrote about SearchFox RSS's "Topics I Like" feature I adjusted some of ...

The Wonderful World of Logfile Analysis, Part One: Search Engine Referers
One of the things I like to do in my spare time is analyze web server logfiles. It doesn't even ...

Rhinola: JavaScript for the Server!
Chris Zumbrunn has news in the comments of my article "RFE: Server-Side Javascript?": There is a new JavaScript execution framework ...

SearchFox RSS's "Topics I Like"
For the last two weeks I've observed SearchFox RSS's list of "Topics I like" to both find out how it's ...

Ah, Now I Get It... (An Interview with Joshua Schachter)
On David Weinberger's blog: transcript of a talk and Q+A by Joshua Schachter of delicio.us. It's a bit sketchy, but ...

This Week in Tech with Larry Lessig
The new episode of This Week in Tech features copyright lawyer and Creative Commons-guru Lawrence Lessig, and it's a great ...

It's Coming, It's Coming!
This is an update on my ongoing series on web service client authorization ([1], [2]): exciting times ahead! To reiterate: ...

SearchFox Rocks. But Where Are the Web Services?
SearchFox is really great. It's a web-based feed reader (currently in beta) that watches you reading feeds, and which uses ...

So it is a Corporate Internet Boom after all.
The last time I wrote about it this was little more than an extrapolation of what was happening, but now ...

IRC Bots on Web Services
Take a look at this very strange del.icio.us account: http://del.icio.us/cuthu -- I stumbled upon this user while datamining my own ...

On Language
Surprisingly language constructs emitted by the same entity seem mostly repetitive, even if covering different subjects. "Interesting". Popkomm Panel: Management, ...

Popkomm Panel: Management, the new Majors?
2005-09-16 15:30-16:30 Moderator: someone from Musikwoche We were told that the panel was about the evolving possibility of artist self-management, ...

Popkomm Panel: A&R in a Digital Environment
2005-09-16 14:30-15:30 Moderator: Joe Taylor, Record of the day Surprisingly the panel was mostly about ringtones -- it turned out ...

Content Distribution in the New Millenium
Strange, the DVD format is only ten years old and already on the verge of being obsoleted. In two years ...

TrimJunction: JavaScript on Rails
In June this year I started looking for ways to use JavaScript as a server-side scripting language to replace Perl, ...

PopKomm 2005 - Business as Usual
Last week a friend invited me to visit the Popkomm, using the press pass of a colleague. Who am I ...

Marc McDonald on Channel 9: Watch it!
After the recent Ballmer debacle I merely glanced at a screenshot of the Channel 9 interview with Bill Gates, and ...

RFC: Patent Approval Process via Communities
Yet another patent that describes a technical "invention" both blatantly obvious, and with apparently well-know prior art: "System and method ...

Fuck. (iTunes 5 Update Broke My Library)
Translation: The file 'iTunes Library' apparently is not a valid music library. iTunes has attempted to rebuild your music ...

Woooohooooo! (iTunes 5 Dropped Brushed Metal)
Judging from the screenshots, iTunes 5 has put an end to Brushed Metal!! Haven't installed it yet myself, but I'll ...

CSS-Bug in Safari's Canvas Implementation?
While playing around with the cool new <canvas>-tag, I found that Safari seems to have a bug in its canvas ...

The MP3 Player's Vanishing Disk Space Mystery
I own a simple MP3 player by a German company called dnt, the player model is called "Fun 256". It ...

Screw Objectivism, I Want Story!
If you enjoy reading Ayn Rand, and are thinking about learning some key facts of her "philosophy of Objectivism": don't. ...

The Next Corporate Internet Boom
A short excerpt of current news, from my perspective. First signs that the Flickr sell to Yahoo might be good ...

Small changes to the RSS feed
I've made some smaller changes to the blog's RSS feed; depending on your aggregator this could cause a little inconvenience, ...

A First Look at Pandora, a Non-Social Music Recommendation System
I already gave a basic description of Pandora in my previous article, "Finally: An Alternative to Last.fm". Brief recapitulation: Pandora ...

Finally: An Alternative to Last.fm
Tom Conrad has apparently just presented "Pandora" at Bar Camp. Scoble quotes an email from Tom with a short description ...

The Right Word: Apple Style Guide
While writing another bug report for Apple's OS X feedback page I used the dictionary popup to look up the ...

define:elitism
How about this for a definition? It's just a small event, but their approach to invitations bugs me a lot. ...

Chinatown (1974)
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Random CMS Rant
I'm on constant lookout for a better system to maintain this website -- currently it's a rather loose mixture of ...

Better del.icio.us Browser Bookmarklets
I've been using modified del.icio.us bookmarklets to feed my del.icio.us account, and thought I should share those. More experienced users ...

Bridging Web Services to Find Better Information
Visit my Flickr photo stream for more abstract eye candy. I'm having a series of conversations with Falko Schmid ...

launchd hiccups
I'm currently testing the Safari CookieFilter script and have stumbled upon strange launchd behavior that I can't explain nor find ...

Critique and Countercritique
Normally I don't even glance at site ads, but while browsing Roger Ebert's site I saw a Google ad that ...

Tuesday Night Out (almost)
Went to the cinema at Potsdamer Platz; due to some unfortunate timing the evening ended different than planned, but ...

RFC: An Approach to Securely Connect Web Services
Visit my Flickr photo stream for more abstract eye candy. In my earlier article, "Connecting Web Services: Inherently Insecure", ...

Using launchd to Transparently Whitelist Safari's Cookies
I was looking for ways to automatically start my Safari CookieFilter script, because if I had to launch it manually ...

Safari Cookie Whitelist Filter in Perl
Since Tiger I've been pretty satisfied with Safari, and there are fewer reasons to install third party plugins than ever. ...

Connecting Web Services: Inherently Insecure
Visit my Flickr photo stream for more abstract eye candy. During the last couple of months I've been using ...

The Userfriendly Linux: Ha Ha
Asa follows up on his recent Linux not ready for the desktop commentary. He acknowledges that there are several lines ...

Steve Ballmer Creeps Me Out
Scoble interviewed Steve Ballmer (transcript, announcement). Finally! While watching the short video I was struck by the realization that the ...

Macromates TextMate
I've just started using TextMate. My initial assumption was that it is still early in the development process, so I ...

The Cell Phone is the new Ghetto Blaster
Just saw a guy on a bike who was listening to Hip Hop playing on his cell phone. He was ...

Dave Winer
Another wonderful podcast from Dave Winer, which starts off as a monologue about his recent Audible experiences, sidesteps into a ...

podcasting via iTunes = $$$
Via Dave Winer: Apple seems to be caching podcast feeds and MP3 files as part of their iTunes podcast integration. ...

"You get something for nothing, and capitalism dies a little."
Just stumbled over Alex Payne's blog and was so delighted about his witty prose that I decided on a whim ...

Backup Hell
I'm in desperate need for a better backup strategy. By now it has become clear that our data storage media ...

RFE: Server-Side Javascript?
I just read another rant about the many weaknesses of PHP, and of course I'm in complete agreement. Over the ...

miniPlayer musikCube Plugin
miniplayer is a minimal interface plugin for musikCube. it has basic player controls, a search field, it can access your ...

last.fm client using only HTML+JavaScript
last.fm remote control is a client for the last.fm stream webservice, implemented purely in html+javascript. this means that you can ...

"I Like This!" musikCube plugin
"I Like This!" is a simple music recommendation plugin for the musikCube audio player. With this plugin musikCube users can ...

Florian Balmer's Notepad2
Designed as a replacement for the Windows text editor Notepad, Florian Balmer's Notepad2 is a small, fast, simple and beautiful ...

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multipan VST plugin
multipan is an autopan plugin for VST hosts. it uses three LFOs to create a quasi-chaotic panning movement. why I ...

Catch22 HexEdit
I've just spent several hours looking for a free or open source hex editor, and it is surprising how many ...

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UML Sequence Diagram Sketches in Java
Alex Moffat has created a wonderful little tool to rapidly create UML sequence diagrams. The GPL licensed Java application, appropriately ...

Thomas Meinecke - Tomboy
Thomas Meinecke - Tomboy.Pages 128/129 of 251. As far as I can remember I first heard of this novel ...

Trailer for The Brown Bunny
Finally there is a trailer for Vincent Gallo's new movie "The Brown Bunny", and it looks interesting. A contrasting ...

Don DeLillo - Underworld
Don DeLillo - Underworld.Pages 222/223 of 827. Don DeLillo's Underworld is often described as the essential contemporary American novel, ...

Photoshop Image Manipulations
Greg Apodaca, a photographer and digital artist, uses his online portfolio to demonstrate common image manipulations of photographs for magazine ...

Erinnerungslücken
Am Ende von American Splendor wird während der schönen Abschlussszene "My Favorite Things" gespielt, in der Version von John Coltrane. ...

Playboy Centerfolds
"The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning ...

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