Inspirational story of adventure from Will Chaffey who came to Australia from the US with no plan as an 18 year old. You can listen by clicking his name underneath the photo or subscribe to the feed and download it from there. The Conversation Hour is my favourite Australian radio show, it’s worth subscribing to for the daily updates.
Will Chaffey on The Conversation Hour ∞ (16/05/08)
How To Surf Securely with SSH Tunnelling ∞ (16/05/08)
What the post doesn’t tell you is that if you run it through a server in the United States you’ll be able to watch all that video content sites like Hulu don’t let you watch from outside the US. I was aware of this process’s existence but I had no idea it was so very easy. It’s completely changed my world.
Grand Theft Auto IV Dating Tips ∞ (14/05/08)
Fill the fun bar all the way to the top and keep it there for a few seconds to have a successful date.
All transferrable to real life. Again, Via Waxy.
New York City vs. Liberty City ∞ (14/05/08)
A photo set comparing scenes in GTA IV with real life scenes in NYC. It’s unbelievably realistic. I’ve always dreamt that when I’m a multi-zillionaire I’d have a GTA style game modeled after my town, I should just move to New York. Via Waxy.
Safari Link Exposer ∞ (14/05/08)
An Applescript to find the point where your site has been referred to, something I’ve wanted for a long time. A commenter points out that the same can be achieved with a custom stylesheet and CSS3 attribute selectors like a[href=http://valhallaisland.com], I love attribute selectors but never thought to use them like that before.
Poseidon Undersea Resort ∞ (14/05/08)
I don’t know if this is frightening or extremely cool. It’s only 40 feet underwater so if things did go wrong I suppose you could get out alive. Apart from the “I’m in a kind of submarine” factor, I think it’d be amazing and for only $15,000 a stay, what a bargain! Via Uncrate.
Sidenote: One of the most terrible Flash websites ever. Screens take forever to load with super slow animation and content is interrupted with “tips” on how to use the website.
Muto ∞ (13/05/08)
Absolutely incredible huge scale animation on the streets of Buenos Aires. I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of work this must have taken. Via Andrew K.
Cubescape ∞ (13/05/08)
Incredibly cool Javascript block building, isometric thing. It’s hard to explain what it is, just head over and start playing with it or read The Man in Blue’s blog post.
Phantom Butterflies ∞ (11/05/08)
Fantastic screen saver for OS X and Windows.
Library Applications
9th of May, 2008
There’s two broad kinds of applications.
- Library applications like iTunes, Things, YoJimbo, iCal and iPhoto, etc.
- and Process applications like Photoshop, Preview, Quicktime, Firefox, GarageBand, etc.
There’s a third, less prevalent kind that doesn’t deal with data at all, applications that just do things like OmniDazzle. I argue that you could put any application into one of those categories, perhaps with overlapping — eg. Firefox processes webpages one at a time but stores things like bookmarks. I have a problem when applications don’t act like they’re in the category they’re in. Continue reading →
Lightning + Volcano Eruption ∞ (09/05/08)
In the middle of the night. Absolutely amazing photographs. Click to see higher resolution versions (but not much higher).
The stuff dreams are made of ∞ (09/05/08)
A $6000 giant inflatable ice berg is the first thing I’d buy as a multi-zillionaire.
Piet ∞ (07/05/08)
A graphical programming language with source code that looks like abstract paintings. Via Waxy.
The day the music died ∞ (06/05/08)
Mark Pilgrim on Microsoft shutting down it’s PlaysForSure servers that verify the music you “purchased” is actually yours. The ability to play PlaysForSure music will soon be extremely unsure.
Soundamus ∞ (04/05/08)
A service that creates a feed of upcoming album releases based on the music you listen to at last.fm. This was made for me! Keeping track of when your favourite bands are releasing music is a burdensome task and often I don’t find out about new releases until months after they’re out. This service solves that and all I need to do is type my last.fm username and subscribe to a feed. This is a seriously fantastic app. Via Waxy.
Clothing Inventory
2nd of May, 2008
I have a clothing problem.
Excluding my extravagant $300-on-one-outfit splurge a few weeks ago, I haven’t really been shopping for clothes in over a year. My favourite pieces of clothing are literally worn so often they’re falling apart. A pair of shorts I’ve had since mid high school has worn through the ass — there’s no rip or tear, they haven’t been grazed, they’ve literally been worn down until there’s nothing left. Continue reading →
Double Negative Examination
30th of April, 2008
The last few exams I’ve taken have all included double negative questions which, when they’re multiple choice and worded the way they are, makes it really hard. I’ve gotten questions wrong where I knew the answer but was so confused by the cryptic question I marked it wrong. Continue reading →
Twistori ∞ (30/04/08)
The best use of Twitter data I’ve ever seen and beautifully executed, I could watch it for hours. The words love, wish, think and hate are big players in my Tweet Cloud. As a side note, not to pick on Twistori but why does everything have to be “the first step” — Twistori works great on it’s own, move on!
First person spot for Nike Football ∞ (30/04/08)
It seems both reckless, amateur and extremely well done. I love the dacking.
Parents pray for dying daughter rather than take her to a doctor and then she died ∞ (30/04/08)
Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, but the father considered the illness “a test of faith” and the mother never considered taking the girl to the doctor because she thought her daughter was under a “spiritual attack,” the criminal complaint said.
She had diabetes. As someone with a sister who has diabetes I know exactly how treatable it is and how horrific the consequences are if it’s not treated. This makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. Via Kottke.
Where do people find the time? ∞ (28/04/08)
Fascinating talk from the Web 2.0 conference with some commentary from Clusterflock too.
My mom has often asked me, in a tone of disdain, how people find the time to do so much stuff on the Internet—stuff that she thinks is, with a few tiny exceptions, worthless—and I’ve been saying to her for years, “They spend less time than you do slackjawed in front of the TV.”
9 Phrases Women Use ∞ (28/04/08)
From Tumblina and 9 phrases men use from Testumblrone. Read the women’s first. Very funny. Via Ross Hill.
Sticker Pack 2 ∞ (28/04/08)
Another fantastic extension to the set of icons I use in OS X.
Brisbane BarCamp ∞ (27/04/08)
The second Brisbane BarCamp is on at the end of next month. I was overseas for the first but I’ll definitely be attending this one. I’ll also be presenting on something like creating WordPress themes or GTD or blogging, I don’t know, something I’m an “expert” on. There’s where and when details on the Facebook event page. So if you want to see me talk some shit in front of a projected TextMate, come along!
Mentos, Diet Coke Record ∞ (26/04/08)
Is that it now? Are we done with the amazing phenomenon that is putting Mentos in Diet Coke? Cool photos nonetheless. Via Coudal.