December 2007
32 posts
"We do not mix" →
BrandEins article (German): Why the customer isn’t always right in New York.
Inside-Out-Bears →
Bear photos by Kent Rogowski
Besides last.fm
No reason to try out all of them, but it seems to be a trend: imeem.com, mog.com, ilike.com
Using rsync with a list of files / folders
rsync -a --files-from=list.txt /from/something /to/something/else
list.txt contains relative paths in /from/something, so you can sync a selection of a file tree within /from/something to /to/something/else, perfect for partial image sequences with a fancy subfolder structure.
songza →
Slim, humanized web interface from Aza Raskin (son of Apple employee #31 Jef Raskin) for music search in the huge YouTube repository of videos (without the video).
"Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea" →
About tractability, obviousness, deepness, wideness, discoverability, monetizability and the question “Do you really want it to exist in the world?” from Evan Williams (Blogger, Twitter)
1394 Trade Association Announces 3.2 Gigabit per... →
Uncompressed HD over FireWire is nigh!
New "Amazon SimpleDB" accessing Amazon S3 web... →
“Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee.”: $1.50 per GB-month storage, $0.18 per GB transfer out
Dopplr launches →
If I only had more reason to use the community site for travelers dopplr.com
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a...”
– Steve Jobs in digitaljournalist.org
Colour Lovers: Color Trends + Palettes →
Need inspiration for your new website/outfit/home?
WatchAnimation exercise with Photoshop, Motion and GarageBand
The "Pizza Planet" truck appearance in Pixar... →
…and other illustrated cross-movie references [via daringfireball]
Business secrets for free! →
More fun with Google Code Search: 80,700 hits, 1,190,000 hits and 2,450,000 hits
Squirrel-armor →
“GERBIL ARMOR COMING SOON” (ancient armor and website and humor)
“It just comes down to how many nerds times how many processors in the render...”
– Chris Weitz on the making of “The Golden Compass”
Pomfort SilverStack goes v1.4 →
After a few months of coding we updated our image sequence managing application to v1.4. Besides lots of improvements we added 10bit support for QuickTime and some nice Leopard features.
The law of large numbers and human predictability →
How to use search engines to crack MD5 hashed passwords.
Robots at Buy N Large →
“The very future of convenience rests with the development of fully functioning home and utility robots designed from the ground up to do the tasks we as humans were never really meant to do — tasks such as lawn mowing, vacuuming, surgery, food preparation, and political decision making.” [along WALL•E from Pixar]
Beyond the tub
I didn’t know that you can wash an iPod nano 2GB at 40℃ in the washing machine without destroying it. Today I took mine out of the tub and chose “Beyond the Sea” from Bobby Darin.