I have a vinyl copy of that album from 2000, it came with a 'Daft Club' membership card which let me download all sorts of exclusive audio content. In this case though it was DRM protected, unlike these mp3's
I wish I had the time to DJ out and about these days.
There are quite a few links between Iain M Banks work and the Halo series - and I absolutely recommend anyone who's not read his work to check it out. Larry Niven was certainly first with the ringworld design, but the orbitals are more directly related to the game environment.
Someone has put together a nice list of similarities between the games and the books.
I crunched the mathematics a while back and wrote an article exploring the limits of cameras with compact optics such as those found in cellphones. It's all about the light
I'd managed to grab a few shots at sunset, but I wanted a shot with both the sun and the comet in frame - so I held my sun filter out as far away from the camera as I could manage, it dimmed the solar disc but left it visible, a wee bit of adjustment to the luminance curves was needed to bring out the comet at the top left of the shot. Sorry it's kind of small, I just used the stock 55mm lens on my camera so I could be sure I'd get a wide enought field of view.
A couple of days ago if you googled 'Solar Tsunami' the top hit was from some nutter who had a whole website that was promoting the theory that underneath the photosphere there was a solid iron-silica surface, thankfully the scientists had enough imagination to call it a tsunami rather than a Moreton wave.
I can think of some other crackpot science that needs to be googlebombed into non-significance.
He did a fantastic APU costume in previous years, that was my grand plan for this year, except that my 4 month old son Orion was going to be strapped into the pilot's seat. However procrastination got the better of me and with a few hours before the first halloween party I attached some constrols to his baby carrier and wired them into a cardboard hat that said 'Mind Control Unit' - it may not have been 10% as cool as the power loader outfit, but it did win a prize for originality.
Oh that's a great little missing link, if people haven't seen it they should make a point of watching it before Doctor Who tonight. They've also got the hilarious 'Curse of Fatal Death' episode up there too, with Rowan Atkinson (and others) as the doctor - another charity episode.
There's a feature length Christmas episode that introduces the new Doctor, but I guess the Sci-Fi channel didn't want to wait to show that before heading into the new series.
When putting my 18 month old daughter to bed she likes me to stay in the room until she falls asleep, after reading her a story I'll put her in her crib and pass the time playing with my PSP, either surfing the web, playing retro classics or even the occasional PSP game. This represents all the gaming i get to do these days.
My new baby boy, not even two months old - I was born a few weeks after the last apollo mission returned home, now a whole generation later we're going back and maybe the kids can get insterested in looking beoyd the earth.
URL To download the client and The source code. The CocoaMono bridge is named Dumbarton after the bridge from Fremont to Palo Alto which crosses stinky salt marshes crossing it can sometimes be a case of holding your nose, kind of like crossing from C# to Objective C.
Back when I used to call myself an astronomer I coded up this map which shows the releative postitions of all asteroids in the vicinity of the earth. If you've ever played the classic video game 'Elite' then you won't have any trouble understanding the map.
At this distance they're more likely to be captured Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects and therefore more likely to resemble comet nuclei. Neptune already has a large number of EKBO's in a 3:2 resonance, including the "planet" Pluto - we sometimes call objects in the 3:2 resonance with Neptune 'Plutinos'. So, the fact that some objects get caught in this stable 1:1 resonance hardly surprises me, but it's nice to have someone actually identify such objects.
XPlay is frequently so good that my non-gamer wife enjoys watching some of the reviews and Sketches, the reveiws are brutally honest and frequently remind her that she isn't missing much by not playing games other than DDR.
Yep, you know some of them still think they invented the computer too, another British achievement that was less publicised than the american version half a decade later.
'How can it be truly distributed if you have to run proprietary software to use it?' Huh? You should look up the meaning of the word 'distributed' - but I understand you really want to run Appleseed on your talkie toaster and that commercial companies are unlikely to port their software to the platform (unless it's toastmaster 2006);-)
Sure, imeem is mainly interesting in this context because it's innovative, compared to those monolithic websites like friendster/orkuts/whatever. It's clearly solved a lot of the problems that Appleseed will face so it's probably worth a very close look by anyone who might be interested in appleseed.
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I have a vinyl copy of that album from 2000, it came with a 'Daft Club' membership card which let me download all sorts of exclusive audio content. In this case though it was DRM protected, unlike these mp3's
I wish I had the time to DJ out and about these days.
Maybe the Aphex Twin can drop by for soundtrack duties.....
There are quite a few links between Iain M Banks work and the Halo series - and I absolutely recommend anyone who's not read his work to check it out. Larry Niven was certainly first with the ringworld design, but the orbitals are more directly related to the game environment.
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Someone has put together a nice list of similarities between the games and the books.
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.htm
I crunched the mathematics a while back and wrote an article exploring the limits of cameras with compact optics such as those found in cellphones. It's all about the light
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http://snm.imeem.com/blogs/2006/10/16/23WDH-33/li
The PSP is great, but sony just keep breaking all the best software with their firmware updates.
I took a few photos from my house in Oakland -
A W_FAX99Dry/
http://meems.imeem.com/iQrVatKB/photo/blSLxv2H/1l
I'd managed to grab a few shots at sunset, but I wanted a shot with both the sun and the comet in frame - so I held my sun filter out as far away from the camera as I could manage, it dimmed the solar disc but left it visible, a wee bit of adjustment to the luminance curves was needed to bring out the comet at the top left of the shot. Sorry it's kind of small, I just used the stock 55mm lens on my camera so I could be sure I'd get a wide enought field of view.
This one shows the whole event and then replays it zoomed in on the sunspot and on the filament destruction
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http://meems.imeem.com/iQrVatKB/video/wPgDIh4_/so
A couple of days ago if you googled 'Solar Tsunami' the top hit was from some nutter who had a whole website that was promoting the theory that underneath the photosphere there was a solid iron-silica surface, thankfully the scientists had enough imagination to call it a tsunami rather than a Moreton wave.
I can think of some other crackpot science that needs to be googlebombed into non-significance.
He did a fantastic APU costume in previous years, that was my grand plan for this year, except that my 4 month old son Orion was going to be strapped into the pilot's seat. However procrastination got the better of me and with a few hours before the first halloween party I attached some constrols to his baby carrier and wired them into a cardboard hat that said 'Mind Control Unit' - it may not have been 10% as cool as the power loader outfit, but it did win a prize for originality.
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There's some photos here, completely unimpressive compared to the original article
http://snm.imeem.com/photo/MJDZtjMt/McddntHQ57Yp0
Of course, next year he'll probably be too big to be the pilot.
We all know public key cryptography was a secret for many years before it became public. Officially GCHQ got there first.
Oh that's a great little missing link, if people haven't seen it they should make a point of watching it before Doctor Who tonight.
They've also got the hilarious 'Curse of Fatal Death' episode up there too, with Rowan Atkinson (and others) as the doctor - another charity episode.
Oh, well that's great then - my bad.
Now we can complain about how people are building up to Christmas too early in the year.
There's a feature length Christmas episode that introduces the new Doctor, but I guess the Sci-Fi channel didn't want to wait to show that before heading into the new series.
Look on sysinternals.com - the best bet would be Filemon - then you can track which files are being opened.
I managed to drop mine at a party and when I found it someone had driven their car over it.
When putting my 18 month old daughter to bed she likes me to stay in the room until she falls asleep, after reading her a story I'll put her in her crib and pass the time playing with my PSP, either surfing the web, playing retro classics or even the occasional PSP game. This represents all the gaming i get to do these days.
You could be using homebrew to play your music and videos and neatly avoid the broken naming scheme that sony uses.
Don't upgrade if you don't have to!
My new baby boy, not even two months old - I was born a few weeks after the last apollo mission returned home, now a whole generation later we're going back and maybe the kids can get insterested in looking beoyd the earth.
URL To download the client and The source code. The CocoaMono bridge is named Dumbarton after the bridge from Fremont to Palo Alto which crosses stinky salt marshes crossing it can sometimes be a case of holding your nose, kind of like crossing from C# to Objective C.
Back when I used to call myself an astronomer I coded up this map which shows the releative postitions of all asteroids in the vicinity of the earth. If you've ever played the classic video game 'Elite' then you won't have any trouble understanding the map.
Go Stache yourself
Apparently another application put together for the Useless App Contest - more about it on Dustin's imeem blog
At this distance they're more likely to be captured Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects and therefore more likely to resemble comet nuclei. Neptune already has a large number of EKBO's in a 3:2 resonance, including the "planet" Pluto - we sometimes call objects in the 3:2 resonance with Neptune 'Plutinos'. So, the fact that some objects get caught in this stable 1:1 resonance hardly surprises me, but it's nice to have someone actually identify such objects.
XPlay is frequently so good that my non-gamer wife enjoys watching some of the reviews and Sketches, the reveiws are brutally honest and frequently remind her that she isn't missing much by not playing games other than DDR.
Yep, you know some of them still think they invented the computer too, another British achievement that was less publicised than the american version half a decade later.
'Appleseed seems like more than usenet than anything else.'
I hope that AOL doesn't create link to it then......
'How can it be truly distributed if you have to run proprietary software to use it?' ;-)
Huh? You should look up the meaning of the word 'distributed' - but I understand you really want to run Appleseed on your talkie toaster and that commercial companies are unlikely to port their software to the platform (unless it's toastmaster 2006)
Sure, imeem is mainly interesting in this context because it's innovative, compared to those monolithic websites like friendster/orkuts/whatever. It's clearly solved a lot of the problems that Appleseed will face so it's probably worth a very close look by anyone who might be interested in appleseed.