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i have been through...

2011-11-07T12:28:00.000-08:00

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."

- Mark Twain

exception

2011-11-01T12:53:00.000-07:00

In fact, it appears that triangle counts are indeed unusually high in most social networks (with
the exception of networks of sexual contacts [29].

[29] P. S. Bearman, J. Moody, and K. Stovel, Chains of af-
fection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual
networks. Preprint, Department of Sociology, Columbia
University (2002)

source

untitled

2011-10-31T18:52:00.002-07:00

of the feelings ghandi, nietzsche, beethoven, and jesus shared throughout their lifetime, was the decaying fear of someone walking in on them, just after a terrible-smelling fart in the safety of their solitude.

the druids bringing in the mistletoe

2011-10-30T13:27:00.004-07:00

that's a wrap

2011-10-28T16:27:00.001-07:00

you know you've done enough youtube browsing for the day, when you find a video of the girl from "once" performing "dokhtar ghoochani".

let's do this

2011-09-20T02:01:00.002-07:00

2011-09-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

via reddit.

2011-09-13T12:00:00.000-07:00

When facing a problem, if you say "I must solve it" you're beyond it already, you're not looking.

- J. Krishnamurti

2011-09-10T14:09:00.002-07:00

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." - Steven Wright

2011-09-09T13:31:00.001-07:00

2011-08-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." - Steven Wright

pov

2011-08-08T11:27:00.000-07:00

via reddit.

Paper

2011-08-02T16:54:00.002-07:00

source: http://www.richardsweeney.co.uk/paper.html

XTC Go 2

2011-07-29T16:36:00.000-07:00

from sleevage.

Old Chinese Saying

2011-07-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

Affairs help.

Santa Sangre

2011-07-11T21:07:00.001-07:00

Maps

2011-07-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

View Larger Map

dancing in the dark

2011-06-30T00:47:00.000-07:00

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two words

2011-06-12T23:50:00.002-07:00

extreme. ironing.

How Brodovitch Does It

2011-06-07T01:20:00.000-07:00

Controversy

2011-06-05T18:17:00.000-07:00

"I think that there's a little bit of a Nazi in all of us, and there's a little bit of a human being in Hitler, and I think to think otherwise is dangerous."

- Von Trier

glow effect

2011-05-30T17:48:00.000-07:00

source

2011-05-28T19:02:00.002-07:00

oh fever ray the woman inside me is so lesbian for you.

2011-05-23T21:52:00.002-07:00

d-_-b

flow

2011-05-20T13:42:00.000-07:00

Can't believe this is not CGI!

lat lon

2011-05-16T13:32:00.002-07:00

3D text using multiple shadows in css

2011-05-13T16:47:00.000-07:00

http://markdotto.com/playground/3d-text/

sweet!

War

2011-05-11T17:53:00.000-07:00

source: reddit

2011-05-03T10:35:00.000-07:00

From Google's webmaster's guide on watching out for spam:
"
Amazingly, we get these spam emails too:

"Dear google.com,
I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..."

10 Commandments of Good Source Control

2011-05-03T10:17:00.002-07:00

http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/05/10-commandments-of-good-source-control.html

The Typography of Code

2011-04-28T21:52:00.002-07:00

http://blog.hamstu.com/2008/02/03/the-typography-of-code/

Trick

2011-04-25T20:24:00.000-07:00

This, used to be my approach to a spill-free walk back to my desk when carrying a cup of coffee. I now know of the "look away" technique which surprisingly works wonders. Turns out it may work on other things too.

Google Prediction API

2011-04-22T00:36:00.002-07:00

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/04/prediction-api-every-app-smart-app.html

"Today, we are releasing v1.2 of the Google Prediction API, which makes it even easier for preview users to build smarter apps by accessing Google’s advanced machine learning algorithms through a RESTful web service."

2011-04-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

right place?

2011-04-18T12:30:00.000-07:00

Any suggestions on how to organize all your pet projects in a coherent platform online? They could be photos, videos, music, web apps, blog posts, etc. I need to go through my old pages and put together whatever's worth keeping. There's this blog on blogspot which is more like a notebook for interesting links and what not, typic on tumblr with typography exercises, devsnack on wordpress with programming references and notes, this thing whatever it is on some uvic server which will most likely expire soon. I know... it's a mess. Was thinking getting a flickr account for a while which is fine for comments and tags on images, but that's all it does. How about web hosting? possibly with ruby support?

Best Show Opening

2011-04-12T17:44:00.002-07:00

"It's hard to stay up
It's been a long, Long Day
And you got the sandman at the door
But hang on, leave the TV on
And let's do it anyway
It's ok
You can always sleep through work tomorrow, OK?
Hey hey
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday"

late late show with craig ferguson is the best thing that could happen to a procrastinator.

Audiotool

2011-04-04T19:23:00.000-07:00

A little tool for creating sequences online. Lovely GUI.

Where the eye-candy graphics in Tron come from

2011-04-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Planimal you say?

2011-03-23T13:42:00.000-07:00

What does portmanteau mean?

Waffles

2011-03-21T16:13:00.000-07:00

Waffles is a toolkit of machine learning algorithms.
http://waffles.sourceforge.net/docs.html

Typography Vocabulary

2011-03-17T19:36:00.000-07:00

Old Chinese Saying

2011-03-10T14:32:00.010-08:00

your code is well-written, when you can say what it does in a glance

an IOCCC winning entry.

How to make inanimate objects dance through editing

2011-03-08T19:12:00.002-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdQNrk9lcI

Getting Started With Iphone Development Video Tutorials

2011-03-08T16:30:00.002-08:00

shining trivia

2011-03-05T21:44:00.002-08:00

"The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front exterior, but all the interiors as well as the back of the hotel were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England. The management of the Timberline requested that Stanley Kubrick not use 217 for a room number (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay in that room ever again. Kubrick changed the script to use the nonexistent room number 237."

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia?tr0793106

midnight entertainment

2011-03-04T10:44:00.002-08:00

Computer Science Books Online

2011-03-01T17:09:00.001-08:00

http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/computer-science.html

Good

2011-02-28T18:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.nakedpassword.com/

Google Webfonts

2011-02-25T14:17:00.002-08:00

http://www.google.com/webfonts

test

2011-02-21T17:15:00.005-08:00

typic

2011-02-20T00:48:00.000-08:00

I have started practicing typography and will be posting my progress here: http://typic.tumblr.com/

motivational wallpaper

2011-02-18T12:26:00.000-08:00

an old wallpaper I created, for work. "PRETEND" ON! my friends

Type Tester

2011-02-15T11:15:00.002-08:00

http://www.typetester.org/

2011-02-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

"What is 1920's?"

Possibilities

2011-02-09T14:29:00.000-08:00

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

I can't express how in awe I am of this seemingly obvious observation by Arthur C. Clarke. It's amazing how uncertainty can detach you from reality, even when every realized possibility is your worst nightmare.

WolframAlpha

2011-01-26T17:42:00.002-08:00

Mall

2011-01-25T00:42:00.000-08:00

Beauty

2011-01-24T22:17:00.002-08:00

High

2011-01-24T22:09:00.001-08:00

I was chopping this portobello mushroom the other day

and realized that you don't need magic mushrooms to get high.

ruby is sexy

2011-01-17T12:43:00.000-08:00

.squeeze(" ").strip

Bowerbirds - Hooves

2011-01-14T14:26:00.000-08:00

nerd rap

2011-01-14T13:28:00.001-08:00

us programmers don't mess around,
when at work yo, we fucking commit

planimal

2011-01-11T18:16:00.000-08:00

"This is the first time that multicellar animals have been able to produce chlorophyll". source

2011-01-11T14:30:00.001-08:00

you know you're in the right conference when they're filming miss america next room.

2011-01-04T21:29:00.000-08:00

2010-12-31T01:44:00.000-08:00

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2010-12-05T17:55:00.003-08:00

2010-11-17T01:26:00.000-08:00

comfort

2010-11-09T09:31:00.000-08:00

2010-11-05T19:11:00.000-07:00

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them see
the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new generation grows up
that is familiar with it."

Max Planck

Sunspot

2010-08-27T00:39:00.000-07:00

Journey to Eternity

2010-08-25T15:58:00.000-07:00

I made a very short remix of the "Journey to Eternity" song from the album "The Passion of Sufi" by Shahram Nazeri. Here's the original song, which is a great Setar solo by Hafez Nazeri:

This is still in early stages and only 20 seconds worth of samples are taken from a 7:29 long song:

Alim Khan

2010-08-16T17:43:00.000-07:00

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

2010-08-03T23:58:00.000-07:00

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream
It is not dying, It is not dying

Lay down all thought, Surrender to the void
It is shining, It is shining

That you may see, The meaning of within
It is being, It is being

That love is all, And love is everyone
It is knowing, It is knowing

That ignorance and hate, May mourn the dead
It is believing, It is believing

But listen to the, color of your dreams
It is not living, It is not living

Or play the game, existence to the end

Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning

Roland GAIA Synthesizer SH-01

2010-07-28T18:15:00.000-07:00

2010-07-27T09:56:00.000-07:00

2010-07-20T00:59:00.002-07:00

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

2010-07-07T11:37:00.001-07:00

The distance between Vancouver and LA is less than 2000km, roughly 1220 miles.
Camels can travels 25 miles a day [ref], so the trip will take them less than 50 days.

Food for thought...

fyi

2010-06-24T17:14:00.000-07:00

youtube has a vuvuzela button now. good... (rubs hands) good...

Goose bumps

2010-06-23T19:45:00.000-07:00

Principles

2010-06-17T18:33:00.001-07:00

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Groucho Marx

Scary!

2010-06-12T13:29:00.002-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)

FavZ

2010-06-11T02:31:00.002-07:00

given enough time, this little tiny widget will play all my favorite songs on grooveshark. the good news is, there are no prev/next buttons on it.

2010-06-06T15:33:00.000-07:00

"Men" by Kiban

2010-06-02T02:48:00.000-07:00

Ghost Writer

2010-05-29T15:32:00.000-07:00

Loved it!

2010-05-29T15:01:00.000-07:00

Lay down on the ground and look up to people as they pass you by.

All Paterson's Worms

2010-05-29T14:59:00.000-07:00

http://wso.williams.edu/~bchaffin/patersons_worms/allworms.htm

Yum!

2010-05-26T15:31:00.001-07:00

2010-05-25T14:46:00.003-07:00

Secretary: Doctor, there's an invisible man in the waiting room.
Doctor: Tell him I can't see him

p. 64 Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar

!

2010-05-22T22:34:00.001-07:00

"We're watching 121 episodes of LOST, 94 hours total, all for charity and a new Guinness World Record."

http://www.livestream.com/lostathon

Colors

2010-05-16T16:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I created this cute little pet project I had in mind for a long time. What I wanted was a small app that could automatically generate "arty" looking graphics, that would somehow be related to an input image. Here's what I came up with using Java:

Thom Yorke - Analyse

2010-05-14T03:24:00.001-07:00

Today, I mixed this great video of bird flocks with a live performance of Analyse by Thom Yorke.

It fits quite well.

Meanwhile, at the Garden of Eden...

2010-04-21T14:03:00.004-07:00

Angels: We have given him 8 fingers. According to our calculations that should be enough to do the most complicated tasks.
God: Let's give him 2 more to **** with his binary conversion methods.

2010-04-20T23:29:00.002-07:00

Nick Drake - Milk & Honey

2010-04-14T22:56:00.002-07:00

Resemblance Powder

2010-04-09T20:19:00.001-07:00

by B. Kliban

Subjectivity

2010-04-07T17:30:00.005-07:00

a cartoon by B. Kliban

While two people could be equally wrong about something, they would still go on arguing who's right or wrong. This could be one's first impression of this cartoon.

Another interpretation would go like this: I (reading the cartoon) am just another person standing there, looking at the "object" on the table, with a cloud above my head depicting a round sphere.

In other words, from the point of view of that guy on the left, there is a potato shaped object on the table, while two men (me and the guy on the right) are making slightly off interpretations of it.

So this cartoon could about the fact that we tend to forget about the symmetry of subjectivity. At the first glance, our view looks dominant since we "see" the truth there lying on the table, while those guys just have clouds of thoughts, or what we often refer to as their "opinions". But we need to understand that we all could be looking at a cube (who says so?!).