Contextual advertising is really cool…conceptually. In reality though it can be be really annoying or fail horribly. I was reading an article about when Palin was Mayor and I’ve got to say, this is a great example of contextual advertising failing:
The Eye – Now a web app.
Before now The Eye, which is featured in my portfolio, has been limited to a “live, gallery only” experience, due to its hardware requirements (depending on the size of the space, 3 or more cameras were required.) Recently (today) however, I’ve rewritten a segment of the code so that anyone with a single camera can experience it.
Ideally, you should step about (making this number up on the fly) say, ten feet away from your computer, so that it’s field of view is accurate.
System Requirements: a computer with a built in, or attached, webcam.
If it doesn’t seem to be working, right click over the video, go into settings, and make sure you have your camera selected.
Frank Chimero – States
Pretty awesome set of prints by Frank Chimero, taking the basic shape of states, and turning them into seemingly unrelated illustrations. It’s especially interesting when you consider that the shape of states themselves are a combination of man made and naturally occurring boarders.
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Little blog recode.
I just altered that reads the blog on AndrewParnell.com
I’d noticed that the default feed from blogger (which powers this blog) only shows the 25 most recent entries, which really isn’t good enough for me.
However, after some searching I found that if you append the query string ?start-index=# to the feed path, you can get older entries. Better yet, throw on &max-results=5 and rather than having to parse the entire feed and then have php display only 5 entries, I can just show the entire feed.
It’s pretty sweet.
Oh, and because that picture I posted earlier really didn’t cut it:
Here’s a video of the tri-duino in action.
Tri-duino from Andrew Parnell on Vimeo.
Wood
Bought a new table saw and put that bad boy to use.
Time is running down.
Tri-duino
The last little bit of science for my upcoming project:
The Tri-duino!
Just a little proof of concept based on the dual core arduino
This one is 3 arduino chips sharing a power supply and a 16mhz crystal to keep in perfect sync. The final project is going to be running 16 of these.
Chuck Returns
Google Knows:
Ryan Day!
I don’t know if you read any webcomics. I do. …quite a few. My bookmarks have 132 (that number is down quite a bit from a year ago) plus a few that show up in my livejournal friends feed.
My “I read a lot of comics and am generally a giant nerd” creds aside, Ryan Estrada, aka Mr Awesome apparently has 100 70 guest comics out there today.
One Hundred Seventy
Same as the number of pennies in a dollar seventy cents.
Or dollars in a hundred seventy dollars.
Or tens in a grand seven hundred…ok, I’ve gone to far with this bit wow it’s an even worse bit now.
Anyway, so far I’ve found… 30ish (haven’t been counting) 21 (I counted) but I know there are many more out there. I’m looking! You should too!