Category Archives: Geek

77 Million Paintings

Brian Eno, Light Painter: The multidisciplinary artist, with the help of a few technical experts, has created a computer program that continually fuses his translucent light paintings to create an ever-evolving artistic display on your computer screen. The piece is … Continue reading

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Discography Reloaded

Hurrah! The discography pages are now running on WordPress as is just about everything else on this site! I bet you’re just as excited as i am! What it means: No more getting rid of oodles of comment spam in … Continue reading

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Feeds, Spam & Hard Drives

The RSS feed for this site is now handled through FeedBurner. The transition should not be noticeable for you feed-readers out there though (which is actually what this entry’s testing). With the upgrade to WordPress’s latest version, a new spam-filter … Continue reading

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Tiny Music Makers

Music Thing has a great series of posts up on “tiny music makers”, the people responsible for the sound of your Mac/Windows OS starting up, the “Intel Inside” tune, and more. Brian Eno who composed the Windows 95 tune: The … Continue reading

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Mac vs PC

They’ve been around for a while, but I can’t stop laughing at these “get a Mac” ads. Brilliant as they may be though, I tend to feel more sympathy for “the PC guy” than “the Mac guy”. The portrayal is … Continue reading

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Fun With GoogleTrends

The geeks at Google have released a new toy: Google Trends. It allows you to look up the popularity of searchterms over the years, but the real fun lies in the fact that you can compare searchterm popularity of different … Continue reading

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Boot Camp

When I’m old ‘n grey, I will be able to tell my grandchildren: “yes kids, I was there, the day hell froze over…” Update: screenshots! (via)

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I’ll See Your * And Raise You A *

As you probablee know English isn’t my mother tongue, so when writing up a comment here, I did the following search on Google to verify the accuracy of the term I was about to use: search?q=”i’ll see your” “and raise … Continue reading

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Magnum PI

PI Day, Tuesday March 14, 1:59 pm E.S.T. and 1:59 pm P.S.T. The Giant Pi drops here.

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Spamnesty International

Via Tom, a novel idea: Spamnesty International. We care about spam because spam is really important for your life! If spam would stop today, the world would end. We fight for a more evenly distribution of spam to everybody in … Continue reading

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iTunes Sig

‘t is a thing of wonder, the iTunes Signature Maker: iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration … Continue reading

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Tap That Song

And another fun diversion: Song Tapper! Use your keyboard’s spacebar to tap the (lyrical) rhythm of a song, and have the site guess that song. Amazingly accurate, I might add — I tapped “Close To You” by B. Bacharach and … Continue reading

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Live Plasma

Fun little diversion: Live Plasma. Feed it with the name of a band or musician and it’ll show you their relationship with other bands/musicians. The results for Frank Zappa were a bit weird though, as Neil Young appears right next … Continue reading

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Pizza Alert

Ten years from now, this is how we’ll all be ordering pizza.

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Amanita Design

Ammmmazing… Web at it’s peak – from the Czech Republic. I tried a flash-game (Rocketman VC) and an animation (Plantage). Beautiful. And funny. It will take your time… :-)

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