These are a few weeks old but I couldn’t be bothered posting at the time. Now I’m trying to work through older tabs..

IBM’s ‘Seer’ Brings Augmented Reality to Wimbledon “Everything from tennis matches to dining and points of interest will be plotted using the combination of GPS, camera, compass. Users get a ‘heads up display’ to so they can see ( Read more... )

elevated - a stunning 4 kilobyte demo released in April of this year. I wish this computer could play HD video. 4 friggin K! The app uses Perlin noise procedural textures (a more detailed explanation here) among other things to get it that small.

Also from April, Excelence, done in Excel.

And, again, the fantastically psychedelic palindromeda suger ( Read more... )

I’ve more or less been on the fence regarding which side to believe more in the recent Honduran political crisis.

One of the things that stuck out to me at the time was the report that, sayz Wikipedia; “Several hundred people recruited by Zelaya, and led by Zelaya himself, went to an air force base and took possession of the referendum materials ( Read more... )

Put the oven on at 180°C.

In a bowl, mix;

• 3 cups self-raising flower
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons caster sugar

Add 1 cup water, mix, get your hands sticky.

Plop mix on a baking tray or bread tin if you have one, shape/pat-down a tad, throw into the dark hole of heat.

Wait roughly 50 minuets, remove, stick on an airing tray or dish towel for roughly 10 ( Read more... )

The last I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue was a great, catch it before the next on Monday evening. “Diagnostic - A Welshman unsure if god exists. Realist - A catalogue of bottoms. … Newcastle - To drop an atom bomb on Peirs Morgan.”

Day made, mind blown: it’s Portal in ASCII

Enviro-Bear iPhone game. You’re a bear. With a car.

To have been a fly on the ( Read more... )

Google; average age of politician and average age of elected officials, nowt really. politicians “average age”, some, but nothing meta.

Wolfram|Alpha; average age of elected officials and politicians age, nada. politicians, more but nothing that close.

DBpedia; lookup.dbpedia.org only works for single terms. I’m assuming there is some form of ( Read more... )

Woo, Urban Dictionary appeared on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown yesterday. With 593 up and 32 down in the clip, “Pullin’ a Palin” now stands at 3943 up, 978 down. Context on her jumping ship by quitting as Governor in an earlier segment here.

Old media and new [social] media, a false dichotomy, both being just terms of flow and feedback in one ( Read more... )

“Two bills are currently in discussion in Holyrood that are of concern to CAAN members and supporters: The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill and the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill. The former is included because of section 34 which bans extreme pornography; the latter is included because of a rejected recommendation to decriminalize ( Read more... )

After salvaging a fairly new mobo, ram and hdd from a mini-tower I found abandoned next to a recycling bin a couple of weeks ago, I’m looking to put together a firewall/gateway/misc server box for kicks and educational purposes.

After a Wikipedia/Google trawl, the options I’ve come up with for a suitable set-up are Endian, eBox Platform , SME ( Read more... )

I’ve just shifted all my piccies from Google Picasa Web to Flickr using Migratr (which can migrate between multiple services). Bah, I’m sure I’ll be bothered to sort titles and descriptions at some point.
Crossposted from my blog.