June 2009
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Last.fm - Michael Jackson tracks played per hour →
That graph just rockets upwards. I played Michael Jackson vs Q-Tip, Breathe don’t stop, which I doubt got counted in that graph.
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iPod Touch vs a Mac vs a PC (SunSpider javascript...
1st Place My new main computing platform: iPod Touch 2nd Gen, OS 3.0:
Safari 33796.0ms +/- 3.1%
2nd Place My stalwart: 12” Powerboook 1GHz PPC, OS X 10.5.7
Opera 9.62, 38896.8ms +/- 6.6%
3rd Place At work: Dell D610, 2GHz Pentium, XP SP2
IE6* 49827.4ms +/- 4.6%
OK, those are chosen for shock value, but still that’s pretty impressive. For a ‘fairer’ comparison I have...
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Suspension
Big Pest: Daddy, what's suspension?
Me: Well... It's something that absorbs shocks. So on a car or a bike it means that when you go over the bumps in the road it isn't as bumpy for you and it also means the wheels stay gripping the ground rather than bouncing in the air.
Big Pest: Daddy!? I mean at school!
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Bye Bye Kodachrome (and 110 format film!)
So Kodachrome is being discontinued after 74 years. I haven’t even got around to shooting any yet. I expect there will be a rush on stocks, but for the time being it is still available (7dayshop). However, in my quick search to find who’s stocking it, I then stumble across the shocker that 110 film is no longer being made by Fuji (discountfilmsdirect). Gutted.
So next payday I guess...
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The Incredible Century Old Color Photography of... →
Worthy of a look: The photos are amazing.
I’m pretty sure I’ve read about this process before although I can’t recall the photos. Basically three photos of the same scene are taken in monochrome, but through different coloured filters. This then allows the colour of the scene to be recreated. However, since all three images are taken in series by one camera it required evryone...
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“…And we don’t need any magical require statements to use them!
...”
– - Rip: Ruby’s Intelligent Packaging
It does sound interesting, I was hoping that it would be a full fledged alternative to Rubygems, because as good as Rubygems is, you do come into all kinds of issues with it: using behind proxy servers and making gems portable for using in apps (that damn...
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EasyGrep →
An indispensable VIM plugin if you are looking for an easy way to do find and replace on a number of files. I never really used Textmate, but BBEdit did do this quite well back when I used it, although from recollection not as cleanly as this. When doing a find it presents a list of matching files, complete with an excerpt of the result. Clicking on the entry in the results window opens it up in...
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“… download ruby-1.8.6 installer and take all (C:\ruby\bin\*.dll) and paste...”
– - By AlberTux From Ruby 1.9.1 missing dlls
Maybe slightly abusing the Quote style post on Tumblr, but installing recent Ruby versions on Windows and OSX should be a lot easier than it is.
On Windows, I’d had Ruby 1.8.6 installed from the One Click installer, but decided to upgrade to the...
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WatchReversible by Loup Thévenin as seen on Vimeo Staff Picks.
Another cool stop-motion animation. I’ve just realised I quite like stop-motion stuff. One day (probably in many years time) I’ll have to have a go at this.
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Early Google Chrome builds for Mac and Linux →
Webkit browsers are really kicking Gecko based one’s at the moment. Both in the rendering engine speed and in javascript speed. So this is good to see. I managed to get this working in Slax using the deb2lzm module and installing these other two modules: libgconf2-4 and Liborbit2. It crashes like mad, which could either me something else I’ve missed in Slax or just that this is a very...
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Right, let’s try out some reblogging and...