Clay Shirky’s talk on Cognitive Surplus at the Web 2.0 Expo. Something to think about.
Summer came, and summer is almost gone now. I have been quite busy and so neglected my blogging commitment. Here to make it right is a post about this wonderful summer. During this summer I had two major vacations. Two weeks in Berner Oberland, Switzerland, and a week in Israel out of which 3 days [...]
The World War animation film bellow, was created by Vincent Chai for his final degree project, while studying 3D Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire, UK. Its well made, amusing, and the action is really good. Keep an eye out for this guy.
As I was going through youtube adding the clips for the previous post I can upon A LOT or remixes for Dead or Alive’s “You spin me round round”. So much so that I felt I had to put these 3 mixes, starting with Jessica Simpson, which unfortunately do not allow embedding so here it [...]
At work today I was listening to a classic rock station when “I ran” by A Flock of Seagulls came up. It must have been at least 15 years since I last heard it. So with this nostalgia in mind, here are some of those 1 hit songs from the 80s this post wont be [...]
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced [...]
An interesting talk about secret software and why it should not be allowed in the public sector
Paris Hilton made a funny, intelligent video in reaction to Mr McCain’s TV spot. Yes That is “Paris”, “Intelligent” and “Funny” all in one sentence.
Every once ina while I have to let the geek in me out. This post is one of these moments. If you don’t get this, you probably have a life
Dreamhost appears on the django site as one of the django friendly hosting services. Unfortunately, dreamhost does not officially support django. It does not have mod_python installed. Django is instead deployed using FastCGI. Hopefully sometime in the future mod_python will be added. There are a few good guides I have found, that explain how to [...]