World Cup
The World Cup reminds me of War of the Worlds. So I made this handy side by side comparison.
New York City Sunset
I don't know if it was the gusting 35mph winds that practically knocked me over, but something strange and beautiful was happening that made the sky look brilliant today.
Full resolution can also be downloaded. Zero editing done to it.
San Francisco zombies take notice…
Found this walking around in Sausalito. We just so happened to buy a little zombie finger puppet moments before too.
splurb, an aggregator of aggregators
My newest project, splurb.com, is now open for everyone to read.
The idea is simple. Find links that have been made popular across all the social voting sites. Only list the ones that have appeared on two or more of those sites.
Those sites include digg, reddit, mixx, propeller, yahoo buzz, fark, and tweetmeme. If you follow all (or even a few) of those sites daily, you'll end up reading through a ton of links. I wanted to cut into the noise a bit and extract out a condensed list of the best links of the day.
So far it's worked great and has stayed very interesting. Please check it out and always love feedback. Visit splurb.com
You can also read a great article by Christina Warren over at Mashable on splurb
Craigslist BS Filter
I'm moving and have been trudging through craigslist apartment listings daily. I CANNOT stand all the cliché buzzwords, misuse of symbols, and overall bs of realtors.
So, I cooked up a greasemonkey script that gets cuts through the bs and dramatically cleans up the apartment listings.
The post:
$1500/1BR XXXX-LARGE ***** SUPER MINT ***** MUST SEE. WILL NOT LAST 1BR Apt
Becomes:
1500/1Br Large 1Br Apt
ahhhhhhhhh, much better on my eyes.
The actions performed by the script are:
- Replace a whole mess of cliche phrases and buzzwords
- Get rid of all symbols
- Remove repeating spaces
- F I X S P A C E D O U T W O R D S
- Properly Case Every Word
If you missed the link to the script, you can grab it here. It requires firefox and the greasemonkey extension.
Honest Tea not so honest
Here's another solution to the recession. Honest tea has a gaping void at the bottom of their bottle. It's about 1.25 inches deep. I was amazed when my friend showed it to me. This makes the bottom of a wine bottle look like a golf ball dimple. The result is a bottle with a deceptively long and thirst quenching figure.
Update:
Here's a comparison of the new and old bottles (the new one on the left). Even though they contain the same amount of tea, the one of the left looks larger!
idthis.org – help identify photos
I just launched idthis.org, a website dedicated to identifying photos.
There's an iPhone app that you can grab for it too http://bit.ly/idthis
And here is some coverage:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/02/idthis-photo-with-a-little-help-from-your-friends/
http://lifehacker.com/5351057/idthis-identifies-things-in-photographs-with-the-power-of-humans
Hope you like!
DRM-bricked paperback book
I had an idea for a book a few months ago that showed the parallel between old technology meeting new and the interesting paradoxes it created. When taking DRM and applying it to a regular book, it comes off as silly and is something we would never tolerate. Now it feels even more relevant after the Kindle fiasco.
I've also made the book available on lulu.com. It comes complete with reviews, a back-cover teaser about a dorm 50 years in the future, and 217 pages of obfuscated text with DRM notices on them.
Cat Caller
I made an iPhone app that plays a sound that attracts cats. Watch it work below. You can get the app at http://bit.ly/catcaller
About me
I'm an artist and software developer.
Currently, I'm the CEO of a company I co-founded called, stickybits
Prior to stickybits, I co-founded betaworks, where I created chartbeat, a real-time analytics service and firef.ly, a chat service.
You can view my artwork at billychasen.com
Creations
Tweets
- Hilarious news satire care of the bbc http://bit.ly/cfvRI9
- RT @HLMorgan: RT @joshk: Nice coverage of @Firstround's @phineasb on today's Reuter's Video! http://frc.vc/3KD #frc
- Wait, this isn't a spoof? RT @peretti: Titanic II looks like a pretty good movie ;) http://bzfd.it/aRAZBn
- @tarekp I wish! We did see some football stadiums though
- This is how I roll http://bit.ly/aZpQOq
