My latest toy: I’ve got a Pantone Huey, and it’s great. Such devices have been around for a while, but most of them cost hundreds of dollars.
Now I can drag my photos from one display to the next, and they stay the same colour…
A few days ago, I had the great pleasure to be at John Naughton’s inaugural lecture as a Professor at the Open University.
For those who are confused about the timing, I should point out that while John is loved and celebrated for many things in this world, promptness is not always one of them, and his inaugural lecture came just four years after he was awarded the chair. 🙂
In stark contrast, however, he has been very efficient in getting a transcript of his lecture online, and The Social Life of Networks comes strongly recommended. The webcast will be even better.
(For international readers unfamiliar with the British academic system, a ‘Professor’ here is an honorary post granted to very few. John has been a lecturer at the OU for over 30 years and is also a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.)
A short while ago I wrote about my desire for something that would scan Filofax pages.
Could this Fujitsu scanner be it?
It’s quite common for Europeans to joke about how unaware most Americans are of world geography and to forget that the USA is more like a continent than a country. We may know where America is, but how many Europeans could pinpoint South Dakota on a map?
This jigsaw from Maps.com gives you a chance to demonstrate your knowledge of the US States, and it’s quite a good way to learn them, too.
A couple of hints:
They have more free stuff here.
There’s been much debate here in the UK about whether the BBC is giving too much coverage to the football (soccer) World Cup. On their web site, they’ve come up with a neat solution: you can choose whether or not to put the site into ‘World Cup mode’.
It probably won’t be long before we’re able to do such things with our TVs and radios as well. The concept of discrete channels is so 20th century; soon your channels will be hierarchical. (‘Tonight I’m going to watch cnn.sports.hockey’). Or maybe you’ll simply tune your TV to a set of your favourite keywords…
MTR is a useful command-line utility which combines ping and traceroute to display the path packets are taking between two machines.
I’ve compiled mtr-0.71 it for Mac OS X, and you can get it here: mtr.zip.
The zip file contains a universal binary, a man page, and a README file telling you what to do with them.
If you like this, you might also like my ports of wget and bacula-fd.
Michael Jackson can lean forward at 45 degrees to the vertical. On stage. How does he do it? His patent reveals all…
Hee hee! Lots more fun stuff!
Google Earth 4 is in beta. Amongst other things, it’ll be able to show much more sophisticated building models, with rendered surfaces.
So how will people create these models? Using Google Sketchup – a lovely simple 3D modelling tool which you could use for all sorts of other things too. It also links to a community-generated online library of models.
Sketchup has some good clear video tutorials here. Have a play!
Ah, lots of fun stuff this weekend. Here’s a great video clip showing what the kitten of today likes in the way of toys.
Thanks to Tom Coates for the link.
Have posted some thoughts about this over on the Ndiyo blog.
Alan Becker’s Animator vs. Animation is a very nice bit of work.
If you’ve used Flash or any similar design tools, you’ll enjoy this.
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