Been wearing camo pants ($30 @ Uniqlo) for the last 3 weeks. I am suddenly comfortable with the idea of patterns on my legs. Subtle, ton-sur-ton patterns. Hmmmm... Aside, I was looking for "digital camo"... I didn't know where I...
February 2007 Archives
this is the time on sprockets vere ve ... pump yoo ahp
After Jan called me a weakling in that heavy german accent that could only remind me of Hans und Franz ("you are litta giwly maan! we are gonna pump j00 up!"), because I said it was too cold to...
metro
A dirt poor article written about the "top 11 subway systems n the world". Montreal is 8: Highlights: Diverse, beautiful architecture and unique station art (each station is designed by a different architect). Pleasant riding experience (smooth rides: the trains...
What the font?
I got an email this morning from "zazaaaaaaa" Azamit: Hey u Would u know anybody that can help me find the name of this font ?....huh!!?? Thx Daah, I thought... I *hate* font searching. Is it Helvetica? No, no, it's...
Today
all actionable. and these are not related to my main client/project. e-mails from that are sorted into 5 other folders, all with lists similarly long....
Second World?
Sorry for the link to a machine translation but here's an article in "Web3D-fr" ("3D Web France") about an immersive 3D MMPORG community platform... launched in 1994. Very interesting account of the business model, the politics behind the scenes (browser...
Machine Tags
super quick little PHP function to parse machine tags into an array. Barely useful. What I'd really like to see is code for querying them in a database. Flickr should share that... ;)...
What's that movie?!
Help me out here... Mid 80's, I think the main actor was a WWF wrestler (first guess was Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, but IMDB doesn't list any movies for him). Something about aliens already here, controlling society on earth via...
EcoBlack
How the colour of your website costs the earth Changing the background colour of Google from white (ffffff) to black (000000) would save an estimated 750 Megawatt hours a year globally, thats about half the full output of a dual-nuclear...
The second most dangerous man alive
I'm wondering: - does my Nokia N80 have QR code reading capabilities? - does the Nokia N95 allow Python to access the camera and the GPS "easily" (for hacking a quick prototype) - what is the current trend, if any,...
Run for cover
or at least cover your ears. Zipped out to Soft in Shibuya last night for Juliana vol.3. It was even better than last month's. Just completely mental. Videos, of terrible quality, and excessive volume (my ears are still ringing), but...
Only Jo
Travel update from someone else. Jo was a waiter at Laïka. For years. The others referred to him as "Uncle Jo". Jo left for a long trip of discovery about two weeks before I headed out in mid december...
Sing a tune
Half a bill. Viacom executives are in London negotiating the purchase of LastFM, the London based "online social music network" (read: internet radio station), according to a music business source familiar with the negotiations. The purchase price is said to...
"I should blog that"
I think it was sometime in 2002... I hadn't even started this weblog yet, in fact that stuff to me was still just personal websites. (that's all it still is to me, really) On a lark one Sunday afternoon I...
ç”°ä¸ - quarter half - 1/4 1/2 - ricefield center
When I saw this, I thought "quarter half". In japanese, it reads ta-naka. It is a family name. (I actually have a friend who's family name is Tanaka.) The kanji characters mean: ç”° -> rice field ä¸ -> center, middle,...
Acht Jahre
Papi passed today 8 years ago. Depending on which metric I use, that's anywhere from 2 to 10 lifetimes ago for me. Sad you couldn't have watched me go through them. Strange coincidence: the only thing I can remember from...
Otaku?
Amazon taps into otaku culture. Or what's left of it anyways. from Metropolis (no permanent URI--"permalink". get a clue people!) Now that otaku are the new trendsetters, you’ll be sure to find what’s hot in Japanese subculture wherever they congregate....
Stamen hiring
Stamen Design's most recent "Hiring designer" posting is almost as insane (but right on) as any "hiring!" post I've ever written in my head (yeah, I've done that, a few times). We want to see that you are comfortable making...
Mémoire courte
Je ne me souviens plus de ce que je croyais. Tant mieux. Beliefs are memories twisted out of shape by desires....
White Day
Dah White Day is a festival that was created by a concentrated marketing effort in Japan. White Day is celebrated in Japan and Korea on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, women give gifts to men;...
Remix!
Holymoly. Yahoo! Pipes is like a web-based Max/MSP visual multimedia sampler/remixer/filter for web content. It's a beast. It slices, it dices, it joins and concatenates... it'll even machine translate, extract geo:data, filter by whatever, allow you to input parameters at...
re-make-up-your-minder
Being indecisive gets you nothing. You may not always know what you want, and you may not always be sure you can handle it. But it's a safe bet that it's better to find out than to always wonder and...
Oh dotster...
An old client of mine is finally taking hold of their domain and transferring their registration to another registrar. I just got the following email from my registrar: If you are unhappy with Dotster's service please let us know your...
A bit of humor please
or "Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics: Comedy" Alot of people have been crowing about how Flickr's Machine Tags are pseudo Semantic Web and how they could have been RDF. Well, piddle, and tough luck. I'm quite excited by it...
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