Daily Life of Lois + More
Wednesday 07 May 2008 at 3:29 pm. Awesome art and a wonderful homage to the daily grind - Daily Life of Lois.Useful beginners guide to learning Cocoa - Masters of the Void. For all those budding iPhone programmers. Remember if you can program the iPhone you're going to be in demand.
So it turns out all those UK security cameras don't help solve or reduce crime. So what do they get used for ? Catching crapping dogs apparently.
If you're an amateur gardener this makes for interesting reading - The Three Sisters and again The Three Sisters. The perfect complementary selection of veges.
An oldy but a goody - 'hello world' in multiple computer languages. If you install compilers or dev software and need to make sure the basics work then you could do a lot worse than running a quick 'hello world' test before going any further. And as an added bonus people might actually think you know what you're doing.
Another nice piece - Phone Cord Sheep.
More technology related 'art' - Birth Clock. The clock only starts when you break the glass. The idea is that when you're done pondering you can 'break' the sculpture which both brings it to 'life' and starts a timer to tell you how long its been since you came to your momentous decision. Reminds me of Enos Oblique Strategy Cards to help you get out of a dead-end.
If you only write the occassional web page but balk at using a text-editor or paying for an over complicated HTML authoring tool then take a look at the multi-platform Kompozer which is an unofficial evolution of NVu. These both trace their roots back to the ancient Netscape Composer.
Interesting - Cloud Computing. This is actually pretty awesome - we're implementing new systems and none of them seem to take on board the benefits to be had from abstraction.
Genius - Convert those CD's to 45's.
Fascinating - fixing a 20 year old BSD bug.
Rebuttal - NAND Engineers Perspective on why SSD's will eventually replace HDD's in computers.
Insane - Guy builds his own film manufacturing system. 'Film' as in pre-digital analog media for cameras that really go 'click'.
Nice - PowerPoint Test Card. Useful eyecandy before you kick into your presentation.
