FreeHand puts a pocket on your wrist, L on your forehead
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
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No sex and no drugs, please. We’re Disney. (That’s what they all say)
May 31, 2008 Category: Disney news No Comments »
They are clean cut, Christian and cute. Disney's latest pop exports, the Jonas Brothers, are being packaged for consumption by teens across the globe. As they bring their bland brand of no sex, no drugs, rock n roll to the O2 in London next week, they are already being tipped to take over from a long line of whiter-than-white acts from the House of Mouse.
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Farewell, Harvey Korman
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Bonnie Burton of Lucasfilm has posted an homage to comedian Harvey Korman, who died this week at 81 years of age:
I can still remember being on the edge of my seat in the movie theater watching Korman as Captain Blythe in Herbie Goes Bananas. Heck, I even liked him during my full-blown Goth days when he played Dr. Jack Seward in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
So it really shouldn’t be a surprise when years later, I was brave enough to admit in a crowded Lucasfilm marketing meeting that I was a big fan of the “Star Wars Holiday Special.”
I justified my adoration of the hardly-seen TV show by saying that, in addition to Bea Arthur as the Cantina barkeep Ackmena, it was Korman’s three bizarre characters that made me want to watch the cult classic over and over again. Korman portrayed the Ackmena-smitten Cantina patron Krelman, the multi-armed Julia Child-in-outer-space Chef Gormaanda, and an Amorphian instructor that practically drives Chewie’s son Lumpy to tears.
I was devastated to hear of his passing this week. Not only did an iconic comedian leave our galaxy, but sadly I’ll never get the chance to interview him about those roles he played in “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” I had so many questions for him!
Link to Bonnie's post on the Official Star Wars Blog. Here's the LA Times obituary for Korman.
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Intel & Micron Show 34-nm, 32-Gbit Flash Memory Chip
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Lucas123 writes "IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, announced it has developed a 32-gigabit NAND flash memory chip that is expected to enable the production of cheaper solid-state drives with twice the storage capacity of today's products. The 34-nanometer, multi-level chip is smaller than Intel's latest CPUs. Samples will be available in June with production by the end of the year."
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New Fossil Disney Mickey Mouse Collectors LE WATCH NIB (price: 109.99)
May 31, 2008 Category: Disney Watches No Comments »
 | US $109.99 End Date: Saturday Jun-07-2008 15:38:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: US $109.99 Buy it now | Add to watch list |
LaterLoop’s New Airplane Mode: Zipped Bookmarks On The Fly
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
It was only ten days ago that Mashable first offered a brief peek into LaterLoop, a bookmarking service created by the Greg Hochmuth, founder of Mento and zoo-m.com, which offers easy online/offline access to pages saved for later reading or referral through the use of a FireFox add-on. Users can also integrate the service with an devices called ScrapBook, or even employ a very basic bookmarklet, sans extensions. If you happen to hold a Google account, you can literally be complete new to LaterLoop and begin bookmarking in seconds.
Today we receive word from the company, featured this past week at the Google I/O conference, that it has launched yet another option to users, something it is calling Airplane Mode. Simply put, users can download bookmarks in three varieties - 30 newest, 30 oldest, or 30 shuffled - as a zip file. Once stored locally, users can open the package, click on the front-end HTML page, and and start browsing.
A word of warning. Some pages may prove visually accurate, while the formats of others are horrendously botched. We suggest sticking to fairly simple sites, where text fonts are reasonably large-sized. We tested pages from The New York Times, Wired.com, and Digg. The NYT went into zip format rather nicely (be sure to save from URLs that show stories as a single page, and not those divided into two or more), while the Wired link didn’t fare quite so well when pressed down into Airplane Mode. If you don’t mind stories delivered in bareboned, Google cache style, reading Digg stories and comments won’t bother you terribly.
LaterLoop does note on its website that the new feature is “still experimental and in testing,” so one would gather that formatting issues will soon be remedied. Let us know how your downloads come out.
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Web Zen: feline zen 2008
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
shocking cats
stunt kitty
kitten and his box
plague of kittens
kitten or spider
unagi reviews
chat noir
katnip kollege
catface
talking cats
hugo, cat of 1000 faces
mr. lee cat cam
kitty wigs
lasagna cat
ian the cat
i like cake
and the classics...
going to a gay bar
smoking in paris
and for a limited time...
something for cat
(this will disappear on 06.06.08)
Permalink for this edition. Web Zen is created and curated by Frank Davis, and re-posted here on Boing Boing with his kind permission. Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!)
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Computer designed to read thoughts from brain scans
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LastGraph - Visualize Your Last.fm History
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Last.fm is a great music service that keeps track of your listening habits. Though you can view stats such as last played tracks, top artists, or most played songs with just words and numbers, it can be limiting in so many ways. We're huge fans of visualization tools, so wouldn't it be cool if you could grab a visual history of your Last.fm stats? LastGraph is just the service for the job.
Getting Started
Using the Last.fm API, Andrew Godwin writes and runs LastGraph, a great Last.fm visual history tool. To start, just enter your username to hit enter to get a queue ticket. LastGraph is a beta web app so there are some kinks and issues. A queue happens to be one of them. Fortunately you shouldn't have to wait more than 30 seconds for the page to refresh with a nice selection of visual goodies.
LastGraph grabs the last 20 weeks of data, which is a lot if you happen to use Last.fm on a regular basis like I do. The following stats are available for visual displaying:
- Artist Histories
- Quick Timeline
- Timeline Posters
Artist Histories
Artist histories allows you to see your latest artists sorted by the most played artists at the top. Clicking on a name will display a visual graph showing how many times an artist was played over the past several months. Take a look at my chart for Linkin Park:
If you click on the image to enlarge the graph, you'll notice that that there are some really big gaps in the graph. While Linkin Park is one of my top 5 most played artists, I don't listen to them very often and the gaps in the graph show this. l just recently picked them up again and now they're dropping back off. The great thing about having listening habits displayed in this manner is that you can find out what a user's current listening tastes are. While Last.fm will tell you they're one of my favorites (which they are), LastGraph will tell you that I'm currently exploring other artists at the moment.
Quick Timeline
Quick Timeline is another visual graph that gives you a view of your overall listening habits. Last.FM may record your listening habits, but doesn't provide a way to keep track of how many songs you've listened to within a specified length of time beyond a week. You have no way of comparing how many songs you've listened to in the past month versus this month. LastGraph's 'Quick Timeline' view give a great resolution.
Timeline Posters
LastGraph provides posters of your viewing history. The result is a complicated but useful representation of your listening habits. You can specify a period of time you'd like to have a poster generated for, the color of the poster, and the amount of details you'd like the poster to have ranging from terrible to super. There's another queue for the posters which could take several minutes to render depending on the length of time specified, the detail level, and the number of user requests. The posters are available for download in PDF and SVGZ format. Here's a look my poster for the month of May, rainbow style, with super detail!
Last.FM Should Incorporate LastGraph
All of the data provided by LastGraph is available for exporting in Excel, CVS, and JSON formats. You can even get individual artist data from the 'Artist Histories' page. What I'd like to see next is an expansion from artists to songs. It would be cool to see how often I've played certain songs like Misery Business By Paramore throughout several months or days.
If Last.fm could incorporate all their data in the same manner, you could get an alternative way of seeing your compatibility with other users. The data could be used not only for finding users that match our music tastes overall, but also our current tastes, which could be a more relevant match for users that constantly change their listening habits and music styles.
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Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song
May 31, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Enigma2175 writes "CNN is reporting that videos from the Coachella music festival showing Prince covering Radiohead's 'Creep' have been removed by Prince's label, NPG records. Thom Yorke of Radiohead, when told of Prince's action, said 'Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our... song.' No comment from YouTube or Prince yet. Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder and this seems to be just another example of DMCA abuse." As the article points out, Prince seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Interwebs.
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