I hate writing this type of post, the review of all your failures and accomplishments over the last year. But review is important its stops you from repeating the same mistakes and give you a direction to go next year. This year I have traveled to Atlanta, GA, USA (BACnet Plugfest) , Montreal, QC Canada, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada, Black rock [...]
With apologies to Terry Bisson. Warning: Tron 2 spoilers. “They’re made out of data.” “Data?” “Data. They’re made out of data.” “Data?” “No doubt about it. We picked them up as holonomic extrusions, sent in an amnesiant isomorphic scout party, and checked them out up close. They are completely data.” “That’s impossible. What about that page?” “The [...]
Nils Völker – Media Art and Design – One Hundred and Eight One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans. Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences [...]
App inventor for android was just recently released for everyone to play with. I looked in to it hoping I could create a simple EveryDayFiction feed reader app but it doesn’t seem to support Get RSS feed just yet. So I created a simple sensor reading app that reads all the sensors on the phone [...]
The first total lunar eclipse in two years will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, and we want you to be there. Sure, it’s a school night, but with winter solstice and a new year upon us, what better time to gather your family and friends to see the moon in a [...]
Booklet – jQuery Plugin Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout. It was built using the jQuery library. Licensed under both MIT and GPL licenses. (tags: jquery books)
Scuttle | Download Scuttle software for free at SourceForge.net Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online. (tags: opensource del.icio.us software bookmarks php)
Zombie survival roguelike – Boing Boing Rogue Survivor combines two things I know many of you love: roguelike computer games and the minutiae of surviving the zombie armageddon. Indiegames has a good feature series up on its development. (tags: zombie games game windows indie)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Online Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts its "john carpenter's the thing" from the perspective of "the thing" (tags: fiction free books sci-fi horror) The Linear RPG by =GirlFlash on deviantART An intersting flash base way of telling a story. (tags: flash games game funny rpg store)
Color is subjective and people see colors differently sometimes wildly differently. Where someone sees the color red a different person will see orange or yellow. This survey is designed to find a common ground for defining color names. I didn’t some up with this test, it was stolen directly from Randall Patrick Munroe (XKCD) and he [...]
Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits – $30.64 : Open Source Store Electronic Arduino Wholesale, Wireless Motor Sensor Robot Parts Free Shipping Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits is used to connect with PC. (tags: arduino RF radio) The Simpsons Archive: Foods in "The Simpsons" Someone created a list of all the food consumed on [...]
You have no expectation of privacy. We will collect any and all information you or your computer is willing to give us and do whatever we want with that information. Use of this site is entirely optional. Use at your own risk. Today on Slashdot they have an article on privacy policy and it got me thinking [...]
As much as I believe that I am a god at programing and all things to do with the microchip, eventually I am going to die. I know it sounds ridiculous but its going to happen. I just have to accept the fact that I am mortal and plan for the future. One of the things that I am concerned is [...]
Do It Yourself Steadicam Using a Chicken Last week we shared the awesome fact that chickens have image stabilized heads. If you’ve been wondering about it, it’s actually called the vestibulo-ocular reflex. Naturally (and… nerdily?) people started suggesting that someone should try making a steadicam using a chicken. Well, YouTube user Destin actually went ahead [...]
deep darc » Hacking Christmas Lights I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35. (tags: hacking diy rgb projects)
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD The HEAD section is the worst place to load scripts. It's painfully slow. The more and the bigger the worse it gets. Move the scrips to the end of the page and you cannot use HTML5 and CSS3 safely or you run into dependency problems. Enter [...]