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Welcoming Our New Google Overlords (or Why I Chose Android Over the iPhone)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

With the new Motorola Droid announced today, the web is a-twitter with smartphone opinions. This is a topic that people care about, since picking a smartphone is essentially choosing which mobile computer platform you will be using 24/7 for the next few years. Last year, like many tech nerds, I was plagued with the choice [...]

A New ‘Battle of the Planets’ Movie !?!

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

I just found out that there is a new ‘Battle of the Planets’/G-Force/Gatchaman movie coming out!
I used to love BOTP as a kid in the 80s. The weirdness and the beautiful animation really made it stand out from the typical U.S. cartoon dross. It was only later that I found out the original Japanese [...]

Ffffound Alternatives

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

There is so much great stuff on Ffffound that you can easily spend all day there browsing images. Ffffound is a fantastically well designed image bookmarking site by tha ltd, the brain child of famed Japanese Flash master Yugop. Ffffound has wisely chosen to keep membership by invite only in order to keep up [...]

Best Flash Upgrade Prompt Ever?

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Noticed this upgrade prompt when viewing the TODAY, CREATE. blog through Google Reader. I don’t think it could be any more to-the-point

Server Migration Woes

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

My apologies for the site downtime over the last few days. It’s been a very frustrating experience.
The trouble began when I decided to move this site from its current host (web.com) to a MediaTemple (dv) account I use to host some of my other sites. The idea was to improve site performance. Once the static [...]

Augmented Reality Video for Bogdan Raczynski

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This is an oldie but goodie. Ben Dawkins‘ 2004 video for ‘RPMDAP’ by Bogdan Raczynski downloads break-dancing pixel guys into a typical crappy UK student flat. Also succeeds in making batch files sound cool. How long before someone does something like this in papervision?

Did Money Just Become Meaningless?

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Does this even make sense? Source. See also here.

Starbucks versus Nespresso Taste Test

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I recently got a Nespresso C100T capsule based espresso machine. I decided to compare the shots it makes with a shot from Starbucks. Here’s the results of my very non-scientific taste test:

 
Nespresso
Starbucks

Flavour
Intense flavour, smooth.
Very bitter, almost burnt.

Crema
Good
None

Price
$0.52
$1.55

As you can see Nespresso makes a great espresso, including a nice crema. The beauty of [...]

Custom Portraits by Paul Turner

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I just built a website for my dad, Paul Turner. He’s a very talented portrait painter (among other things) who is starting to sell custom portraits on the web. I sent him a digital photo of my son, Caspar, and 2 weeks later I received a very nice pop-art style portrait printed on fibreboard and [...]

Messing with P5Sunflow

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Ray tracing is the CG rendering technique used in Pixar movies and most other broadcast quality CG. Basically it bounces millions of virtual photons around the scene to simulate how objects reflect light and cast shadows on each other. This produces super realistic images at the cost of being very computationally expensive.
P5Sunflow is a Processing [...]


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