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I just completed another site called ‘Picture Your Rights‘ for the Dutch NGO Loesje whose international HQ is now in Berlin. Its a Photo & Slogan completion about Human Rights and anyone can upload a picture or post a slogan. There will be 4 rounds each with a different theme.
Continue reading ‘Drupal, the swiss army knife of CMS’es’
Scientifically, we think the truth as the historical rectification of a long error, and we think experience as the rectification of the common and originary illusion (illusion première)
I have got to get the lyrics!
Memphis Blue
(1992 - 2008)
hdiutil convert /path/to/filename.dmg -format UDTO -o /path/to/savefile.iso
For Mac OSX only ofcourse
I’ve been kicking the idea of a central way to manage accounts on many social networking apps for a while now. I think it starts to go beyond just managing social-network accounts because what your really doing is managing identity.
Some are saying that 2008 is the time for this sort of “killer app”. Google have also started to chip away at the problem offering a way to update your status in many places at once.
Continue reading ‘Managing scattered online Social Life on multiple Social Networking sites’
I like Strategy games. I get quite addicted quite easily and so I tend to keep wellll away form them. I recently got the itch again, like an ex-smoker and started to look into playing the old ones on my mac via VMWare.
The first thing I found was Master of Orion II, which I played for a night and realised that its actually quite a mundane game, but never the less you find yourself there for hours hitting the “Next turn” button to see if anything you have planned to build has finished, and how much cash you have. Its all virtual and the moment you step away your over it but once your in, your hooked.
I was thinking that this type of addiction would be very handy if you could apply it to more productive tasks like learning. So I’m trying to figure out what the key things are that make strategy games addictive.
Continue reading ‘Strategy learning game’
This is a funny little documentary on the history of the Moog and origins of electronic music. It even mentions the Walter/Wendy Carlos who made the most popular classical record ever: Switched on Bach.
Actually taken from the JS v1.4 Guide and modified to be a little more useful:
function showme(obj, obj_name) { var result = "" var null_list = ""; obj_name = (obj_name != '')? obj_name: 'obj'; for (var i in obj) { if(obj[i] != null && obj[i] != '') result += obj_name + "." + i + " = " + obj[i] + "\n"; else null_list += i + ", "; } return result + "\n NULL propertys: \n" + null_list; }
Pass it an object you want to see the properties of and it will show them to you. Like so:
alert(showme(item[i]));
I found this amongst the 241 the comments on mininova for a movie torrent by the now infamous ‘aXXo’ who is known for releasing “quality” Hollywood movie rips. He seems to some how produce these while the movie is still in cinemas.
Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA:
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
aXXo seems to have become the Robin Hood of the movie torrent scene and has many fans and rivals. By putting his name on the end of his releases it makes them easy to find but it is also in the spirit of the graffiti tagger who makes themselves notorious in a certain area. Living in Kreuzberg Berlin I know the tags ‘1UP’, ‘Just’ and ‘THC’ well as they are on every street. This gives you a feeling of place I find in a large city.
