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!
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.
The site may go in and out as the DNS updates. I am bringing my blog over to the EC2. It’s Amazon’s amazing (and cheap) hosting solution (and also hosts all of my other projects).
If you still see this post in a few days — please contact me.
I think new yorkers can be defined by this one photo from an elevator I was in today.
My new site, cliqck is now online. It allows you to keep a log of the things you buy and why you bought it. You can also see what your friends are buying as well. It’s got a lot of nice features to it and I have a few other enhancements coming up soon (such as popularity lists, etc).
So please go sign up and play around. I hope you guys like it 
(UPDATE: Thanks everyone for the great replies! Also, please digg this if you like it )
I love exploded diagrams of objects where you see every piece of the thing. I had the idea to try and make a real life version of one, and picked my iPod to be the victim. The catch was, I wanted it to work even in its exploded form.
I was a bit unhappy with the result because of the clarity of the resin. There were too many bubbles (and was an error on the last pour). At first I was just going to shelve it, but yesterday decided to at least put the photos online.
The most incredible thing about it is it still works perfectly. I encased the internals of the dock too, so it can be controlled, charged, and listened to, by a wire underneath (that sticks out a bit, hence the lego support legs).
Front view:
Side view:
Closeup side:
Bottom view:
Turned on:
New website hopefully opening up today. Check back soon.
I was recently at the Borough Hall stop in Brooklyn when I passed by this phone.
It takes a second to figure out what happened and realize that was not a happy phone conversation. Could you imagine seeing this conversation? He (or she) hung up that phone so hard that it split in half. Any Hulk sightings recently in the subway?
I always go through the same three steps to download a file (in tar.gz format)
So I made a bash script that does those three steps in one. Use it the same way as wget (# simple.sh http://path/to/file.tar.gz)
#!/bin/bash
# change this to whatever extension you'd like to handle
ext=".tar.gz"
# flags to pass to tar
flg="-zxvf"
wget $1
file=`ls -t *$ext | grep -i -m 1 "^.*$ext$"`
if [[ -n $file ]]
then
tar $flg $file
unlink $file
else
echo "Could not find the downloaded file."
fi
You can download it via this link (Remember to make it executable and to change its extension)
I personally hate when different mp3s play at different volumes. You have to constantly switch the audio level to compensate. Unknown to me, iTunes has an option called “Sound Check” under the Playback options in Preferences. It normalizes your songs, so that their volume remains constant during playback! It does this without changing the original mp3. So you can always switch it off.
Why is this not a default option? Who would not want this?