Monthly Archives: March 2007

Daily Chess Puzzles

I have created a script that generates a new chess puzzle from a database once a day. The puzzles can be email to you or you can subscribe via a RSS feed. A list of past chess puzzles Subscribe to the chess puzzle a day RSS feed Subscribe to a chess puzzle a day mailing [...]

Kyle Cooper – Single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form

Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, and has been credited with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form”. He is the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. Cooper earned a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where he [...]

Egglings – Plants in eggs

Ceramic Egglings look and feel just like real eggs, Just crack one open, add water. Perfect for brightening any home or office space. Plants thrive for months in their shell and can be replanted in soil. Spicy red pepper, lavender and wild strawberries, and many others. Price $9.50 US, each. Elsewares.com

Mark Jenkins – Plastic babbies

How to make cheap plastic babies with plastic wrap and clear tape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7QzfNS3xk A gallery and videos can be found on mark jenkins website, it looks like he mainly builds sculptures out of plastic wrap and clear tap. Imagen creating a scare crow with the same technique, or filling them up with LEDs to make [...]

Flickr’s camera trend data

When you take a snap shot with your digital camera your camera also saves some extra meta information to the file called Exif data. Different camaras save different information to the Exif portion of your picture most of the time it will contains information like Manufacturer, Model, Orientation, Software, Date and Time, YCbCr Positioning, Compression, [...]

Stop motion drum and piano

A video where lassegg hits each note on a drum and piano separately and edited them together to make a song. Its pretty good if you ask me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo Some “Youtube” people are saying that he ripped off Michel Gondry’s video but there is a pretty important difference between the two. Michel Gondry’s is mixing [...]

Subscribe to Comments

I found this great plug-in for [tag]Wordpress[/tag] that allows your users to subscribe to a posts comments, any reply to the post will be sent to there email automatically. This is much easier then having to check back on the post periodically to see if anyone has made a response to your response or subscribe [...]

Google talk

What is Google Talk or GTalk Google talk (GTalk) is a instance message client and voice over IP client provided by Google. GTalk uses an open protocal called XMPP that allowes for other XMPP instance message clients to communicate with Google’s GTalk network. XMPP is the same protocal that Jabber is based off so any [...]

Audio Player WordPress Plugin

While creating a post about julie-feeney a wonderful musician I wanted to post some streamable samples of her music. Most Projects that I found where overly complicated and bloated with features that I just didn’t need. I was about to give up and use Quicktime plugin untill i found audio-player-wordpress-plugin by 1pixelout.net its exactly what [...]