Logorama from Danilo Moraes on Vimeo.

Awesome animated short featuring 2500+ logos.


Reverse-engineering a smart meter
However, something as important as turning off power completely should require a truck roll. A person driving a truck will not turn off the mayor’s power or hundreds of houses at once without asking questions. A computer will. Remote control should not be a mandatory feature bundled with remote reading.


Why We Make Home Videos
And I don’t worry about future generations not caring; these movies aren’t really for them. They’re for us. These movies will play someday at my children’s wedding receptions. They’ll play for my wife and me on Friday nights when we’re old empty-nesters. Maybe they’ll play for our grandchildren, who will roll around laughing at the quaint, enormous gadgets we carry around.

Pogue on home videos, which I agree with and why Flickr should approach it not like YouTube, but more like an archival service.


Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win
Very neat looking OS, and I can't wait to try to xbox live integration.


Revisiting the click track
Click Track discussion of various popular music tracks using EchoNest API.

Gaming, Multiplicitome , Musak, Tech win7, apis, smart meters

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Apple's New Thing (iPod) [Circa 2001]
I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!


The First Hints Of A Dinosaur's True Colors
Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail.


If It's In the Name, It's In the Game
GO YOU MOTHER BUCKIN' ELKS!


11 Minutes of Action
According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.

But how many minutes of crying?


LockMart Exoskeleton Update (via Joel)
Amazing.. I give it 10 years till someone starts thinking about fusing it to bone.

Gaming, General, Multiplicitome , Tech football, exo-skeleton, ipad

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The Old Man and the Seymour from The Old Man and the Seymour on Vimeo.

I actually found myself laughing at multiple parts of this. Great short(er?) film.



Court: Waupun Inmate Can't Play Dungeons and Dragons
Singer was told by prison officials that he could not keep the materials because Dungeons & Dragons "promotes fantasy role playing, competitive hostility, violence, addictive escape behaviors, and possible gambling," according to the ruling. The prison later developed a more comprehensive policy against all types of fantasy games, the court said.


Musical Predictions
The act of listening, it turns out, is really an act of neural prediction


CHART OF THE DAY: One Third Of U.S. 11-Year-Olds Have Cellphones
Why I believe the ipad will never be like the iphone.


NYT Opin: Salvation (for Newspapers) Is at Hand
The next three years are going to be very interesting. I have contemplated buying the NYT on my Kindle, but went with Newsweek instead. Its a great way to read the magazine, but even now I don't keep up with a weekly periodical, much less a daily one.


Confessions of a Book Pirate
I have only done a few. Between 2002-2005 I created around 200 ebooks by scanning the physical copy, OCRing and proofing the output, and uploading them to USENET.
I can't imagine how tedious scanning each page much be.

Gaming, Multiplicitome , Musak music, books, ipad, ad&d

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