Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Favourite podcasts: Basic Soul Radio Show

I subscribe to less and less podcasts (not enough time to listen), but there is one I always install on every newly installed iTunes. It’s called the Basic Soul Radio Show, it’s presented by Simon Harrison. Every week Simon selects two hours of old and new funk, soul and electronic music, which makes for a [...]

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Friday, April 25, 2008

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DrupalPress: Matt vs Dries

On my left side: Matt Mullenweg:Matt was born in 1984 in Houston, Texas.Amongst other things (see below) Matt is a passionate photographer.In Jan 2003, unhappy with the capabilities of B2/Cafelog, he starts with the development of what will grow to be the hottest blog platform software around: Wordpress.In October 2004 he moves from Houston to [...]

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Monday, April 21, 2008

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A JPEG picture doesnt care about no DPI

Every now and then I get a request to use pictures of mine for a poster, a flyer, a book. People usually find the pictures they want in my Flickr sets, where they are available in a max resolution of 1200 pixels for the longest side (so e.g. 1200 x 800 for photos in 3:2 [...]

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

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Friday, April 18, 2008

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Download YouTube Videos as MP4 FilesAn interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube.(tags: youtube video mp4 download convert flv)The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - Nerve.comSo why, then, have Nerve and IFC.com devoted an enormous amount of [...]

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my iPod Nano cannot be unlocked

My iPod Nano has gone into the equivalent of a coma. No matter what you do with the “HOLD” switch, it remains in a locked state. So while you can see when you connect it to a PC that the music is still there and the battery still works, you cannot use it, since the [...]

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FM Brussel playlist live on Twitter

Via Pietel I heard of a Twitter account that publishes the playlist of StuBru in real-time. Interesting, but I listen to FM Brussel. How hard would it be to make the same thing for FM Brussel? Not that hard, it appears. After some twiddling with curl, twitter API and other PHP, here is the Twitter [...]

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Who Knew Getting to Grandmother’s House Would Be This Hard?There’s so much wood on this train I can’t concentrate.Boyfriend: [stares at her wide-eyed].Chick: Oh my god, did I just say that?Boyfriend: Yes, and at least five guys heard it.Random guy: I’m one.(tags: funny overheard)Can 5$ Improve Reader Comments? - FreakonomicsMetafilter:And heres where we diverge, as [...]

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Friday, April 11, 2008

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defective yeti: The Perverse Appeal of LOSTAnd you, the viewer, are, like, “well, I’m glad the mystery of the book is cleared up BUT WHAT’S THIS ABOUT A GIANT AMBULATORY SENTIENT COCONUT??!!!”(tags: lost culture tv humor funny)Cinema 2.0 : The Blog HeraldThe last element of the evening was an interactive one, which allowed viewers to [...]

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

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Flickr: Video! Video! Video!Having your videos appear here is currently by invitation only — we won’t be inviting non-team members to join Video! Video! Video at the present time. If you’d like to see your work here, get out and shoot some great video(tags: Video Flickr photography yahoo)

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

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Friday, April 4, 2008

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The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class | Cracked.comEinstein was in fact so fucking smart that he believed school was holding him back, and his parents purchased advanced textbooks for him. Not only did he pass math, it’s entirely possible that he was actually teaching the class by the end of [...]

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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Seth’s Blog: When poets get angry “We applaud the work of the FBI in shutting down this travesty of copyright. If we want great poetry, America, we’re going to have to pay for it.”(tags: poetry P2P literature)Rec. 709 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRec. 709, and all systems derived from it (e.g. MPEG-2 and thus ATSC [...]

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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Overheard Everywhere | That’s the Fountain on the RightLoud guy in restaurant: So, we were out shopping and there were all these women in burkas taking pictures of each other. How fucking pointless is that? It’s not like they’re going to look back afterwards and go, ‘Oh, look, there’s Doris by the fountain!’(tags: overheard funny)

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