- Some amusing haiku movie reviews (such as this and these) helped your narrator here bring home a brand new camera from the company holiday party this year. Huzzah! Now (after I was just beginning to master the old one) to learn how to use it…
(How am I doing so far?)
- Also, because we went from a Sony to a Canon, we realized that the ol’ Memory Stick was out. But of course, the 16MB SD card that came with the Canon was hardly going to service us for the up-coming trip to Maryland. Luckily, between rebates and an unredeemed gift card, we managed to grab a 1GB SD card for about $5. Sweet.
- Also, my dad just jumped on the Flickr bandwagon to better share his international travels. Now playing? His bad ass trip to China. Enjoy.
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via 24th Floor (via command_tab): A good (and succinct) redux on how to get PNG’s alpha working properly in Internet Explorer.
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Free Audio Editor and Recorder
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Bruce Sterling @ Beyond the Beyond on his definition of “centipedes”. (And yes, that’s *our* Pete Welsch…)
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An OS X preference pane that allows you to set rules for launching/quitting applications when certain events happen (e.g., launch an application when a drive is mounted…)
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“The tourist map of literature” - - a weird little web app that lets you plug in an author’s name and watch other authors’ names float around it, closing in based on the strength of their connection. (Not well-documented (e.g., how are the names weighted
We’re at each others’ throats, people from work and myself. These should be simple enough visualizations of easy-to-graph data but they still keep missing these subtle but critical aspects of each. “My mother could graph better than this,” but that sounds like an insult to too many parties to be fair in any respect. They’ve got the part about using bar graphs down just fine but they’re still not adjusting their y-axes to maximize the differences. It escalates into a shouting match, almost. (They think I really did show these data to my mom, for one thing.)
