May 2008
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Eyeballs
ChrisDodo: is it crumpler that has a website that makes you want to rip your eyeballs out?
jerakeen: yes
blech: yes
ChrisDodo: argh, yes
WatchSX-70 - an advert/info film (by the Eames Office?) for Polaroid’s camera. Everyone’s probably seen this already, but I hadn’t, so here it is.
A Tumblr Question
Why is there a strikethrough widget in the text editor if none of the styles support strikethrough? Maybe it’s just not saving it. OK, turns out to be a Safari bug. Nothing to see here. Please move along.
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ffffound_mirror.rb →
Today’s half-finished code hack will scrape ffffound, downloading the original image URL and site along with the ffffound id, URL, image and related IDs, and various metadata, and then put them into a big JSON file.
Known bugs:
posts newer than about two days don’t get a date. Will try chronic later
dates may not be completely accurate: I’m not sure which TZ ffffound uses
To...
hybridd
Today’s stupid software idea comes courtesy of the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica, which featured (as some previous stories have) the Hybrid, the organic controller of a Cylon base star (aka the big pointy bad guy space ships). This week, though, saw probably more Hybrid than any other. Hybrids, you see, continually babble, a stream of consciousness mixing what sounds like...
Dragonfly, Firebug and XEmacs
(This was going to be slightly too long to fit into a del.icio.us description but slightly too unfocussed to fit on Vox, but it ended up being made slightly more coherent, so please read the version over there.)
Watchemoney-rfid-observations on Flickr - Photo Sharing! stripping an Oyster of its card shell. I was unsurprised to hear Jones and ti.mo invoked when I mentioned this
That's Socialism
Ridiculously expensive cameras seen at the May Day parade in London, amongst all the usual DSLRs, compacts and cameraphones (and I’d say the ratio was about 4:1:5): Nikon D3 Leica M8