Chromatic Cartography and other things
Nov. 2nd, 2009 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxCartogrammar has come up with this neat mash-up, colouring maps (of Harvard) based upon the predominant colour of photographs taken at a given point. Pretty darned cool.
XKCD is awesome, and if you aren't subscribed to![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
xkcd_feed, you really should be. That said, someone please tell me what Primer is, film-wise, because going by the line-format plot summary, it looks mind-blowing!
I mentioned to P a while back about The Wine Gum Experiment on YouTube, which features the awesome Charlie documenting the suspiciously non-uniform colour distribution in packs of sweets. P clearly felt that this subject needed further research over the weekend, and saved up enough money to buy 10 packs of Wine Gums so as to have a sufficient data set. I'll need to grab the photographic documentation from him next time he's at Castle Fox, but the executive summary is that Charlie was definitely onto something with his original video. Actually, P wasn't alone in sharing Charlie's concern: there's a veritable plethora of documentary evidence on YouTube, which P & I may feel compelled to add to at some point :D
ms_katonic will probably just nod sagely when I mention that a Japanese trawler was sunk by a giant jellyfish the other day.
The XBox is currently residing up at The Farm, so I found LifeHacker's article on how to build a standalone xbmc media centre rather timely. Y'see, the main use the XBox was put to was as a media centre, and I actually have the article's Acer Aspire Revo 3600 (with extra RAM), and so decided to wipe Karmic from it in favour of XBMC, with the NVidia drivers slipstreamed in. (Don't worry, the netbook's running Karmic, and it seems pretty good so far). XBMC? It seems excellent - my only problem is that 160Gb isn't enough storage space - I'll probably swap out the current drive for something a little bigger in due course, but to be going on with, it fits the bill perfectly.
ETA: I'm not sure if I should thankaome, but she's certainly the one who pointed me to Twiglight Barbies...
XKCD is awesome, and if you aren't subscribed to
xkcd_feed, you really should be. That said, someone please tell me what Primer is, film-wise, because going by the line-format plot summary, it looks mind-blowing!I mentioned to P a while back about The Wine Gum Experiment on YouTube, which features the awesome Charlie documenting the suspiciously non-uniform colour distribution in packs of sweets. P clearly felt that this subject needed further research over the weekend, and saved up enough money to buy 10 packs of Wine Gums so as to have a sufficient data set. I'll need to grab the photographic documentation from him next time he's at Castle Fox, but the executive summary is that Charlie was definitely onto something with his original video. Actually, P wasn't alone in sharing Charlie's concern: there's a veritable plethora of documentary evidence on YouTube, which P & I may feel compelled to add to at some point :D
ms_katonic will probably just nod sagely when I mention that a Japanese trawler was sunk by a giant jellyfish the other day.The XBox is currently residing up at The Farm, so I found LifeHacker's article on how to build a standalone xbmc media centre rather timely. Y'see, the main use the XBox was put to was as a media centre, and I actually have the article's Acer Aspire Revo 3600 (with extra RAM), and so decided to wipe Karmic from it in favour of XBMC, with the NVidia drivers slipstreamed in. (Don't worry, the netbook's running Karmic, and it seems pretty good so far). XBMC? It seems excellent - my only problem is that 160Gb isn't enough storage space - I'll probably swap out the current drive for something a little bigger in due course, but to be going on with, it fits the bill perfectly.
ETA: I'm not sure if I should thank
aome, but she's certainly the one who pointed me to Twiglight Barbies...
