It seems like less of a good idea now. It’s 8.30am in a tent on a football oval, 6km from Dorkbot Central. I sport a chipper hangover, compounded by a brawny and ominous (though, thankfully fairly rain-free) thunderstorm. Emerging from the tent, I spy my mode-of-transport with a small slice of contempt. I quite like […]
After such an epic journey, it was going to have to be a pretty impressive 8bit, lo-fi, noisy, multi-mode digital audio FX unit and signal generator we’d be building. And with such a description, how could it not be? Impressive, that is. It couldn’t not be, that’s the answer to that rhetorical question – and […]
(Community-based collaboration from Happy Chef, and the Javascript Kids on the Block. Don’t know if it’ll win the t-shirt remix comp though…)
Ah, yes… I just knew there had to be a use for those dang animated-alpha PNGs… Obviously this is how all web pages will be viewed in the future. I’m sure you all immediately figured out how this craziness worked, but juuust in case, I’ll delve: First an animated alpha PNG image is loaded on […]
Good news! After 20 years of us crying out for someone to listen… Firefox 3 will finally support animated alpha PNGs! “Why would we want animated alpha PNGs?” I hear you ask. “I really don’t know.” I answer.
Over time, the internet becomes increasingly average: incorrect information cancels out factual information, wisdom cancels out opinion and user-generated-content cancels out content. For a given web search you have a (correct things/(incorrect things + correct things)) x 100 percent chance of finding something correct. Consider Eventually the internet will represent the most average person in […]
Send an email to mrspeaker@gmail.com with a subject line that begins with sms (and a space), and the remainder of the subject line will be delivered to my mobile phone as a text message. Go on… give it a try… Yep, it worked. Pretty nifty hey? Ok, Ok, just one message is fine, thanks. Jeeez. […]
While flicking casually through various shoutcast TV streams today, I came to focus my attention on an old documentary about computers, or offices, or machines, or office workers, or computerised office workers, or something. It was pretty good. Anyhoo, I think it was called “The Secret Life of Offices”, or “The Secret Life of Computerised […]