3GS photo and mobile WordPress app test
June 23, 2009 – 12:50 pmThe purpose of this post was to test both the 3GS camera and the mobile WordPress iPhone app. Natuarally the WP app failed when I set the status to “published” but did OK when set to “drafts”, the second time.
So instead of typing out this whole post again on my iPhone I just used the WP app to grab the two pics off my phone and am typing the rest of this post on the comptuer. Screw it.
The pics are of a bug and a bike. The yellow and black curiosity is some type of inverted trike crotch rocket and the strange bug with the fake eyes actually snaps when provoked. By snap I mean the thing makes a popping noise when poked and jumps into the air or at least turns over.
If you can identify either, please let me know in the comments.
Civilization by Marco Brambilla
June 19, 2009 – 11:29 amThis video, if you can even call it that, is jaw dropping. Maybe it should be called work from a Motionographer or something. It’s by Marco Brambilla, I believe, and at Motionographer.com there’s a lager version with more apparent detail and a write up.
Sphere: Related ContentMake the best mortgage calculator, win $10,000
June 15, 2009 – 2:10 pm
Attention programmers: the folks at Mortgage Loan Place.com are running a contest to see who can build the most “super sexy” mortgage calculator. By “super sexy” they mean they want the best mortgage calculator ever designed in terms of functionality, design and ease of use. Ten grand to the winner. You have until July 31, 2009 to enter.
Screenshots of decent mortgage calculators already in existence and some contest requirements and suggestions, after the jump.
Sphere: Related ContentMeet Wordnik, your new meta lexicon
June 9, 2009 – 10:25 am
Wordnik — a suped-up and glorified word mecca-nexus — has a goal:
. . . to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.
Enter any word and the online lexicon spits out a myriad of information, including:
- Examples — sample sentences of how the word is used
- Real time tweets — recent search results from Twitter
- Related words — including cross reference and synonyms from various thesauruses
- Pronunciations — written and a spoken recording with an option to record your own
- Images — from Flickr
- Etymology — multiple sources
- Notes — must be logged in to add them
- Tags — I really don’t see much need for this feature. Or it should be auto-tagged with synonyms
- Statistics — nice bubble graph on word usage and unusualness
Wordnik’s Bubble Graph
I like the feature of being able to register and contribute, but I don’t like the absence of an auto suggest for misspellings.
I also couldn’t find the parts of speech (ie. whether the word is a verb, noun, adverb, etc.) of the word or how to make the word plural.
And why no Wikipedia integration?
Sphere: Related ContentWWDC 2009 Live Coverage
June 7, 2009 – 11:44 am
iPhone rumor roundup and the likeliness of each rumor
I’ll be following — from my computer — the Apple keynote address from the Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Monday, June 8, at noon CDT where a new iPhone is expected to be announced.
Here are a few sources covering the event live and a direct link to the coverage:
- Engadget
- Ars Technica
- Gizmodo
- MacRumorsLive
- TechCrunch (Usually live blogs. Couldn’t find a direct link yet, but it will usually be near the top of their main page.)
I haven’t decided which site I’ll be using yet. I’ve tried all of them — except Ars Technica — for past Apple events and all seem pretty good. I usually just stick with one because there is so much info that develops so quickly, it’s hard to keep up. Plus most of coverage won’t differ much from source to source.
Sphere: Related Content(New) Twitter Technical Fail Page?
June 3, 2009 – 1:22 pm
After accidentally attempting to login to Twitter with an erroneous space after my username, I was taken to twitter.com/sessions where the above image appeared.
I’ve never before witness this clouds/attentive robot/bird/pac-man split, double fused bomb/ — image. It reads:
Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing — we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.
Not only is twitter a consistently hip way to waste oodles of time, it is hip and quirky even when it fails.
Sphere: Related ContentMeet Jess, the first interview of ‘Interview Project’ at DavidLynch.com
June 1, 2009 – 11:25 amThe first interview is available in the originally titled “Interview Project” hosted at DavidLynch.com.
Directed by Austin Lynch and Jason S. the project spans 20,000 American miles over 70 days to interview 121 people. A new interview is promised every 3 days.
The subject of the first interview, now showing at http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com, is Jess, a man in his mid 60s filmed in Needles, CA.
IM babble: Lash La Rue, Twitter, Randy Travis and Tramp Stamps
May 29, 2009 – 1:22 pmThis IM started off with “B” (the name has been changed to protect our stupidity) asking me to do something. Being compliant, I replied:
Me: will do Lash La Rue
Me: (real dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lash_LaRue)
B: dont even want to know why you know who that is
Me: a line in pulp fiction: harvey keitel’s character, Winston Wolf says, “How about you, Lash La Rue? Can you keep your spurs from jingling and jangling?)
B: funny I do not remember that
Sphere: Related ContentArt vs. Design from Artists Wanted.org
May 28, 2009 – 9:34 am
ArtistsWanted.org is currently running a contest pitting art vs. design. For $25, artists and designers can submit their work up until 11:59pm Sunday, May 31st, 2009. The grand prize is “a vintage Vespa, a trip to London or a fully loaded MacBook Pro.”
On the site, every visitor is asked to vote up either a design or art piece. These votes will help determine who wins. Judges will take the voting into account, but ultimately they will decide the outcome. The winner will be announced in late June 2009.
Artists Wanted helps nascent artists break into the art world. From their site:
Artists Wanted is a collaborative project between several New York City artists and creative organizations working to build new lasting opportunities for emerging talent . . . . we believe many of the best new artists remain undiscovered. Our job is to get your work seen in the most powerful way possible.
The voting process on this current “artist call” seems satisfactory enough, but I could not find a way to pull up and see multiple entries. And I’d like to view more than two entries at a time.
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