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»Don't be a slave to your tripod. Build this stabilizer and see how much better you photos and video can be. Get professional results. This instructional video shows you how to build your own stabilizer in 5 minutes for less than $1. It is super light weight and folds up small enough to fit in your pocket. With this stabilizer, you can hand-hold your camera with shutter speeds at least 3 stops slower than without. It works just as well with video cameras.«

»The ToDo Tattoo is a set of 12 temporary tattoos in the form of a “ToDo list” that you can place anywhere on your body. Not only do you get the fancy list, but you get a skin safe washable marker too.

May I suggest your first item on your list. BUY A PDA!«

»Where else can you find images like these?«

»The Museum of Food Anomalies™ An online exhibition of the Art of Regular Food Gone Horribly Wrong. The galleries are updated as new works arrive; visitors are encouraged to share their anomalies.«

»Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untracable mass document leaking and public analysis. «

»MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF«

»The package includes web server, sqlite database, python interpreter and a web based interface. All development, deployment and maintenance of web application, as well as database administration, are done via the provided web interface.«

»Query By Humming - die weltweit erste Suchmaschine, die Melodien erkennt. Hier können Sie sie umsonst testen.«

»Ich soll also zu einer Saturn-Filiale fahren und dort – statt der Leona-Lewis-CD – für 9,99 € einen kreditkartengroßen Leona-Lewis-Musicbon mit einer 3-stelligen Prüfziffer kaufen. Beim Bezahlen erhalte ich einen Kassenbeleg mit einem 12-stelligen Code. Damit fahre ich nach Hause, setze mich an meinen Rechner, suche www.musicbon.de auf und gebe Code plus Prüfziffer ein, um mir anschließend die 13 Titel des Leona-Lewis-Albums auf die Festplatte zu laden. Diese kann ich dann auf eine CD-ROM brennen, die exakt in die maßgeschneiderte Musicbon-Hülle passt. Nie war Musikkaufen mühsamer.«

»Eine erste Testversion von Truecyrpt für MacOSX ist verfügbar, kann runter geladen und getestet werden.« (via)

Gerade bei DSDS gelernt.

»One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD's, but had in fact been practiced in the vinyl era as well. That's right: there were a handful of records released in the late 70's and early 80's that contained computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally great.« (via)

Mit DhoniShow lassen sich sehr schnell Bildergalerien in die eigene Webseite einbinden.

»RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image to chromatic scale sounds. *Also MIDI file which is created by RGB MusicLab can be converted to the original image. The program reads RGB value of pixels from the top left to the bottom right of an image. One pixel makes a harmony of three note of RGB value, and the length of note is determined by brightness of the pixel. RGB value 120 or 121 is the center C, and RGB value 122 or 123 is added a half steps of the scale that is C#. Pure black that is R=0, G=0, B=0 is no sounds.« (via)

»Die Idee von „Fuchs Koch" ist ganz einfach: Hier gibt es Kunst-Unikate zum bezahlbaren Preis!« (via)

»Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life® 2’s Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.

Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.«

3D Programming for Ordinary Mortals

Die Auslandsnachrichten liefern uns ein verzerrtes Bild der Welt, meint der holländische Reporter Joris Luyendijk. "Objektiver" Journalismus sei zwar unmöglich. Die Medien könnten aber ihre Produktionsbedingungen offenlegen

»Ich hatte im Fernsehen Bilder von Steinewerfern gesehen, und diese Szenen sahen wirklich furchtbar aus. Ich dachte, jetzt gehe ich in den Krieg. Als ich dann endlich in Ramallah ankam, war es dort so friedlich wie in Köln oder Amsterdam: Kinder kamen aus der Schule, Busse fuhren ihre Runden, die Tomaten waren im Sonderangebot. Als ich dann nach den Steinewerfern fragte, antwortete man mir: Immer geradeaus, dann nach links. Dort finden Sie jeden Tag nach zwei Uhr die Steinewerfer. Und tatsächlich, am nächsten Tag habe ich dort dann die Steinewerfer angetroffen.« (via)

»I am primarily using my Mac Mini as a server via several different protocols. In the name of efficiency & security, how do I prevent superfluous (for my purposes) services like BLUED, CUPS, etc. from starting automatically? Thanks in advance- this site rocks!«

»Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language.

The user is no longer limited to the same tools that are used by most graphic designers around the globe. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects that modify existing graphics and scripts that create new ones.« (via)

»Listen up people, the first proper Figs album is finally in stores, released in the UK on NOVEMBER 19th and distributed by Cargo. It can be got from all good UK record shops. Rough Trade, for instance. It can also be ordered directly from Cargo, or Stateside from Tower Records or CD Baby. Or you can download it from the iTunes Music Store:«

»The Dirty Canon is the Figs' first full length album, featuring 12 new songs. Produced in Hamburg by polymath artist and Pogues-founder Jem Finer and Louisiana swamp-pop legend DM Bob, and finished in London with Brian O'Shaughnessy (of Screamadelica fame), The Dirty Canon has big booming piledrivers, lost soul singalongs, flophouse ballads, epic screeching skronking songs, monkey grunts, thunder and lightning.« (via)

»Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created, rated and improved by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Open Source Food is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly...« (via)

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»We have a dream. A real Mac in your pocket. Perfectly syncing. No need to use a Win CE or Pocket PC device. QuantumSTEP is a different approach. Join the effort!

So, QuantumSTEP is a Mac-like Application Platform that can be installed on existing Linux devices (Zaurus, Nokia 770) aiming at highest level of useage, data and application compatibility allowing for perfect data exchange and sync. It is founded on very powerful software technology frameworks which have been ground-breaking when originally introduced: NextStep/OpenStep (developed by NeXT and Apple) as well as the X Window System (developed by MIT) and Linux.«

Useless beautiful machine scrambles blog posts

Bologna bubble gum

Jaap Blonk bubble performance

Bay Area: Kronos Quarter plays space music with visuals

Video of YAPMM (Yet Another Perpetual Motion Machine)

»Designed several toolbar icons, released for free, which can be used by Mac OS X developers at no charge.« (via)

»For me personally, of all the iPods that have been around or still are, the iPod mini is one of the greatest. With its small form factor (compared to the big iPods, not to the later Nano or shuffle or such) and metal scratch-resistant housing it’s a no-nonsense MP3-player with a great interface. I understand Apple needs to keep selling iPods in ever different tastes, but personally and as far as only an MP3-player is concerned , I’d say: look no further.«

»Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do« (via)

Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applying dynamic range compression, which reduces the difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a song. Like many of his peers, Bendeth believes that relying too much on this effect can obscure sonic detail, rob music of its emotional power and leave listeners with what engineers call ear fatigue. "I think most everything is mastered a little too loud," Bendeth says. "The industry decided that it's a volume contest."

»A LARGE COLLECTION OF NIFTY WEB 2.0 DEMOS« (via)

Quartz Composer Samples (via)

»This program lets you create a booklet out of a PDF file, which is known as pages imposition. It is a useful tool to reduce the number of pages that has to be printed, which lets you save a lot of paper.« (via)

»Weil ich die Zimmermänner grad so mag und Christiane Paul sowieso schon immer, geht es los mit:

Die Zimmermänner : Christiane Paul« (via)

Die Seite zum Buch

»In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.« (via)

»So, here is my way to add "native" internal Bluetooth support to your 4G iPod. The same method may be used with other iPod versions, I leave that up to you.
Required: A steady hand and decent soldering skills. Oh, and you must be willing to live with the possibility that you will destroy your iPod. « (via)

»Hier nun ein weiterer Vorschlag aus der Reihe "Basteln für die Vorratsdatenspeicherung". Andere Methoden und Ideen finden sich in den Anleitungen, in den Beiträgen zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung und auf zig weiteren Sites und Seiten im Web. Auf dem 24c3 Kongress gab es von Jens zu I2P den Vortrag To be or I2P. Falls jemand über den Jahreshinwechsel hinweg von Langeweile geplagt sein sollte, kann er sich also ohne Probleme mit dem Überdenken oder Ausprobieren von Umgehungsmethoden gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung beschäftigen.« (via)

»"Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (kurz: YAML) ist ein (X)HTML/CSS Framework zur Erstellung moderner, flexibler Layouts auf Grundlage von float-Umgebungen. Dabei stehen ein Höchstmaß an Flexibilität für den Webdesigner und Zugänglichkeit für die Nutzer im Vordergrund.«

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