January 22, 2005
What you can do with shared photos: A Fibonacci circle
This one takes a little explaining. Basically, there's a group on Flickr (a photo sharing service) called Squared Circle (all the pictures are square, and they're of circular objects). This person took the first 2704 images (a Fibonacci sequence number) and made a great big circle out of the images, sorted by luminescence and hue. The result: Amazing.
Photo Friday: Crowded
My entry for Photo Friday: Crowded. It's a performer on the boardwalk at Venice Beach, California.
The fellow in yellow at the center was showing people the differences in the way Caucasians, African Americans, Latinos and Asians dance. It was pretty funny.
Jason Calacanis shows how tough it can be to disclose properly when you're a blogger
But props to him for the effort.
Communication Arts writes about successful co-operation between graphic designers and the U.S. government
Without any illustrations online, it seems. Harumph.
January 21, 2005
January 20, 2005
CameraHobby has a good page of Vancouver Photography Stores and Labs
I need to get my Canon G2 fixed. It rattles. That's rarely a standard feature of an electronic device.
Lore Brand Comics has a very off-color comic strip about iPods. You have been warned.
Question of the day: Is there any Mac product that *isn't* fetishized?
January 19, 2005
Importation of vehicles into Canada from countries other than the United States
This is why I haven't been allowed to drive my own car since I got to Vancouver
January 18, 2005
Is Bittorrent dead? A monkey methods research group analysis
To save you time: No, it isn't. [via Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog]
Two headed fantasy squirrel
I also like the scotch decanter. [via MetaFilter]
Eww...creepy....
Capricorns, Griffins, and Chimeras. Just some of the bizarre creations from the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy. Possibly disturbing, yet strangely beautiful art created from the bodies of once-living animals.
January 17, 2005
The Rasterbator (got your attention!) allows you to print a single photo really large on multiple sheets of paper
It's a free servce provided by The Sect of Homokaasu. See my experimental PDF result here.
Is BTEFNet the latest bittorrent site to be unplugged? *
The site says it's just been registered. Hmmm.
3 a.m. UPDATE: I guess it was a temporary disruption.
It's going to be very wet for the next few days in Vancouver with up to 300 millimetres of rain forecast by Thursday
By comparison, L.A. has had 226 mm so far in January.
never: the name of a good, winnepeg alternative music band
The video for "Dream of Me" is pretty good, too.
January 16, 2005
pMachine Pro has been discontinued and will now be free
I wholeheartedly support software companies doing this -- giving away the old versions of their products. I also think that their EE product is great.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, turned 4 years old yesterday.
It currently has 1.3 million articles, of which 450,000 are in English.
Photo Friday: Signs
My entry for Photo Friday: Signs. It's part of a a sign that lists the many ways you can die if you hike off the trail in a park near Vancouver.
There have been many deaths over the years as people try to swim in the appealing water near and above the falls.
The photo itself is posted on Flickr, and may not be available for a few hours on Sunday.
Joel Achenbach's Achenblog is on the way
Washington Post staff writer Joel Achenbach will launch his blog on Tuesday, Jan. 18. I believe it's the Post's first blog.
