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2010 Winter Olympics on NBC – Fail
what a mess.
NPR shares our frustration.
And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What this means [...]
iPhone SDK Alternatives
Besides xCode, here are couple alternate iPhone SDKs. At first glance/installation, Corona makes it dead simple to create flash like games/interactions. It uses a simple LUA scripting language. The Unity 3D for the iPhone is a subset of the larger Unity 3D engine but definitely worth a look if you are building a game or [...]
OS X Tip: Show Full Paths in Finder Windows
Type this in a terminal then restart the Finder.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Field – Experimental Code and Art
Love this:
http://www.openendedgroup.com/field/
Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses. While there are a great many development environments and digital art tools out there today, this one has been constructed with two key principles in mind:
Embrace and extend — rather than make a personal, private and pristine code utopia, [...]
Web Dev Icons
Some useful stuff here:
http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/
to be nobody but your self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm
Pandora and the Song Decoders
I love Pandora and its human based suggestion engine, the Genome Project. In this article, The New York Times explores Pandora and how it and others find your new favorite song. And it isn’t by collaborative filtering…
“However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in the [...]
ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive
My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive.
He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to do [...]
Flash CS5 for iphone – well sorta…
Wonder about the performance, but worth checking out.
From Mike Chambers’ Blog, “The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store. Indeed, there are already a [...]
Harvard’s First Online Course: Justice
Take a front row seat at the first class Harvard has ever made available online, and perhaps meet the inspiration for Mr. Burns from the Simpsons.
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, [...]