14 month ago
plasticbag : I'm seriously considering getting myself some plasticbag.org branded M&Ms - They're just so totally awesome that I find it astonishing that I don't have them already. God knows what I'd do with them except give them to people at conferences...
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm have a gorgeous new app for doing audio fingerprinting to sort out the metadata around music - The double-translation of similar track names to audio fingerprints is a bloody fascinating way to get good solid real-world identifiers around objects like songs. I'm installing it immediately.
Simon Willison : Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.
philgyford : Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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18 month ago
gleuschk : LastGraph: Welcome - Dear internet: this is super-mega-awesome. Love, gleuschk.
Rod Begbie : LastGraph: Welcome - Renderer for that awesome squiggly last.fm-over-time visualization I posted a couple of weeks ago. Very excited to see my results from this! [via] #
Andy Baio : LastGraph - beautiful infoviz graphs of Last.fm listening habits; examples here [via]
philgyford : LastGraph: Home - Create completely stunning and fascinating colourful graphs of your Last.fm data. The best way I've ever seen of getting a good impression of what you've listened to. If only I had data for my whole life of listening. (via Plasticbag)
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Cameron Marlow has use the Yahoo maps API to create a super simple Long/Lat finder... - I really really like this. I think it's because it's so simple a tool, so completely understated, that it totally could be a little desktop application. I can see this being genuinely useful to a whole bunch of people.
philgyford : Latitude/longitude lookup (geocoding-geolocator) - Thing from Cameron Marlowe and Yahoo! Maps which shows you the lat/long of a place you point at. Simple and could be handy. (via Plasticbag)
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21 month ago
plasticbag : With all the conversations about social media going around at the moment I thought I'd link back to this old piece of mine from March last year... - It's not a great piece, it's a bit messy and clumsy. After a fascinating conversation the other day, I think it's important to remind ourselves that media has often been meant to mean simply a container for information. If we think of it as social storage
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Most fun ever: audio clips of the London Underground that you can play together to create your underground experience - This is such fun. Play a few together on a big stereo to create the truly claustrophobic and brain-rattling sensations that previously only the Underground has been able to produce...
philgyford : Freesound :: view pack :: london underground - I'm not sure why sounds recorded from the Tube are interesting, but they are. (via Plasticbag)
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Tangerine is a small OSX application that automatically works out the BPM of songs in your iTunes library - I'm running it now, and it's running through all my tracks at astonishing speed. It's got a wonderfully classy interface and a beautiful icon too, if that counts for anything. God knows if it's any good though...
philgyford : Potion Factory Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Tangerine - Interesting Mac app for creating iTunes playlists organised by BPM. It's BPM-working-out algorithm needs some tweaking though, as it's more miss than hit for me (eg, it thinks a few slow acoustic guitar tracks are 180 BPM). (via Plasticbag)
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang - Webb sent this to me a while ago - it's a short novel about the experience of becoming more intelligent and the consequences of it as well. Mostly when people write about being more intelligent than they are, it sucks. This does not suck.
philgyford : Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang - Webb recommended this to Coates and it sounds interesting but I hate reading on the screen so maybe I'll never get round to reading it even so. (via Plasticbag)
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35 month ago
plasticbag : The West Wing has been axed - the last episode will air on May 14th 2006 - I can't believe this - admittedly it went through a bit of a dull patch a couple of years ago, but it's been uniformly good ever since, and the whole Santos campaign has been astonishingly good stuff! What the fuck!?
kayodeok : Political drama West Wing is axed - White House drama The West Wing will end its seven-year run on US TV network NBC in May
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Wormhole 'no use' for time travel (says the BBC) - "For budding time travellers, the future (or should that be the past?) is starting to look bleak."
kayodeok : Wormhole 'no use' for time travel - "We aren't saying you can't build a wormhole. But the ones you would like to build - the predictable ones where you can say Mr Spock will land in New York at 2pm on this day - those look like they will fall apart,"
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome bizarre beautiful Java animation that you need to watch immediately (thanks Mr Webb) - The rules are simple, each time a ball reaches a branching point it divides. When the paths converge and two balls hit, they cancel each other out...
cameron : Transfixing Java applet - Appears to be counting in binary
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47 month ago
jkottke : Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" contest
plasticbag : Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest - There's not an awful lot more you can say about this. They do indeed look like their dogs. In turn I think I'm started to look more like my Powerbook.
cameron : Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest - Wow, they really do look like their owners!
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jkottke : Mouseradio doesn't have any buttons or knobs - Tip the speaker end up to turn it on and slide it around to control the volume and tuning.
plasticbag : The mouseradio is a fully functioning radio without buttons. The idea was to use the mouse navigation and to implement it in a radio. - "Moving the radio vertically changes the volume, moving the radio on the horizontal axis changes the frequency. The radio is on, when the black speaker points up in the air."
cameron : Mouseradio: buttonless radio - I like the dramatic pauses in the video
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cameron : Pixelfest collaborative artwork - emergent art, one pixel at a time
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