Entries for week beginning January 29, 2006
➠ February 4, 2006
I ♥ Carnegie Deli
A pound or two of turkey, pastrami, swiss cheese, coleslaw and russian dressing, on pumpernickel. A wee snack.
➠ February 3, 2006
Pixar Zoetrope
A three-dimensional zoetrope at the 20 Years of Pixar Animation exhibition at MOMA. The turntable spins and a strobe starts, creating the illusion of motion.
Soup
Andy Warhol's 32 paintings of every available variety of Campbell's soup.
➠ January 31, 2006
Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview
Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. The homepage is a staggeringly fucking awful flash animation, promising “Everything you need, nothing you don’t, and a few things you have yet to imagine”, before displaying a list of Firefox’s features.
Blogzilla: DRM-a-go-go
‘DRM-protected files exclusively released through iTunes … appear in unprotected form on P2P networks 180 seconds later’. Well, that makes screwing your honest customers worthwhile.
Why Reboot?
Small Windows app that tells you what an installer is planning on doing after the seemingly-compulsory reboot.
Stephen Colbert | The A.V. Club
Interesting interview with Stephen Colbert. It takes a second to realise that this is Colbert the actor talking, not Colbert the character, and it’s a fascinating insight into the “philosophy” that colours his satire.
TorPark
Tor + Firefox that you can run on a USB keychain to enable anonymized web browsing anywhere. Fantastic stuff.
➠ January 30, 2006
My OpenPGP smartcard
Now I can pretend to be Jack Bauer with my GPG encryption keys stored on a smartcard. If you encrypt something to 0xC84C962B, you can be certain that it will be seen by my eyes only. Unless a rather bad man has managed to subtly convinced me to give up my PIN, using little more that the art of persuasion, and a length of rubber hose.
I'm not entirely sure what the legalities are of my importing this card into the US, but for now it's nestled snugly in my wallet between my Green Card and my ACLU membership card.
MP3Gain
App to apply ReplayGain volume normalization to MP3s by tweaking the audio data, so the normalized files can be played back on any player (such as yer iPod), not just those that understand the tagging format.
Slumber Party
Joy phoned me on my cellphone at work this week.
"Look at your cellphone."
"What?"
"Look at your cellphone."
"Huh?"
I look at my cellphone. This shot, taken by Joy that morning, was my phone's wallpaper.
"Bitch."
(Apparently, when Joy decided to take the photo, Bacon was asleep too. However, by the time she'd worked out how to take a photo with my phone, he was just staring.)
➠ January 29, 2006
Davenetics* : Did the Internet Destroy Me?
I wonder about this too. If I wasn’t permanently wired in to the cybermatrix, would I have any attention span?
Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data
An attempt at tweaking what you write to a CD so you leave artwork on the disc — Kind of like those Aphex Twin tracks where his face shows up in the spectrum analyzer. Very clever.
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