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A Pretty Pair
Two new ones from Charlie Hoistman: Tiny Plastic Swords #23 and Rives 1.
Sorry for the scarcity of updates lately. There's a lot of material in the archives (and upcoming). We’re working on a system to make these updates quick and painless--i.e., once there’s something ready, it'll be a drag & drop away from being published. More to come.
Cardamom oil misunderstands journeymen; Film at 11.
TextBlender has received a long-overdue vocabulary upgrade. Its vocabulary is now refreshed from a pool of 200,000+ words and phrases. Expect it to be a little more...esoteric...than in the past. Still working out the kinks, though, so me if you have any problems.
Flibbertigibbet
Today, a new soundbite from Tomorrow's Man: Flibbertigibbet
Seduction vs. Coercion
I took these two home page screenshots today, without clicking anything after loading the page:
Screenshot of apple.com on July 16, 2008:
Screenshot of microsoft.com on July 16, 2008:
I’m just sayin’...
Literary Visualizations
Amazing images by Stefanie Posavec. Meticulously assembled structural analyses of Jack Kerouac's On the Road: On the Map
via Jon Hicks
Brainbook: Light Drawings
Fun with long-exposure photography. These eight images are derived from four 15-second exposures, taken with a low-end digital camera.
Boing!
Physics, cowboys, soundbites: Tomorrow's Man - How Can't U Like Bouncy Cowboys?.
Get your stuff off your back and into the cloud
I was thinking about a folder full of files I have--it's a collection of screenshots of various software applications, for research purposes. I keep a copy of it on my work machine, and another on my home machine, and it's a pain to keep in sync. And there are other cases of this.
Idea: put my junk up on the internet, and delete the local copies. Put screenshots up on Flickr, thereby sharing them with other interested parties, and saving the pain of keeping things synced.
- Images to flickr
- Videos to youtube
- Text files to google docs
Will this really work with everything?
Khoi Vinh asks the question, do I really want to put my stuff in the cloud?
Missing Class
A recurring school-anxiety dream last night: I am back in college, with a full courseload, but I suddenly remember that, though I’m attending some of my classes, I’ve missed months of others. And I don't know my schedule—it's in a locker somewhere, along with the books for the class. But I don’t know which one, and don't have a key. So I’m in line at the registrar to try and find out which locker is mine. Very stressful. Then I wake up and remember that school is happily many years behind me...
Moze 01-06
Posted six new Brainbook pages today. These were created in the spirit of my old “Doodle of the Day” site, using Photoshop to generate and manipulate content until I arrive at a pleasing and finished image. Then the next image is derived from the one before, and so on.