If you’ve ever fumbled around with ffmpeg and other tools, there is a superior alternative I was turned onto today by Paul Gregoire via his blog: Xuggler! The Media Tools are particularly of use to folks like me – how suhweeet is this?
MOBY in MPLS
Moby was in town @ The Current this past week and, in addition to hosting Theft of the Dial, left us with some great live recordings, including this moving Gospel rendition:
Humans Swimming
Are you a human? Do you like to swim? How about free-diving? How about static free diving?
Skoal Kodiak
The sounds these guys make are made to be experienced live and man, look out because the grooves powered by Brady’s bass and Freddy’s drums carry the audience off to dance land. The clip below does their thing little justice but after their set @ the 501 Club last night, I had to mention them…
Alex Glawion : Evolution Solution Animation
Evolution from Alex Glawion on Vimeo. hats off to @brainpicker for the nod
The Great Battle of Internetâ„¢ (continued)
Condoleezza Rice’s missive to the EU By Kieren McCarthy Published Friday 2nd December 2005 09:07 GMT The World Summit in Tunis last month was overshadowed by the global argument over internet governance. Its biggest controversy came with the proposition put forward by the EU a month earlier that there be a new inter-governmental body that…
On Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Sound as Image
translating information from one sense into another, especially sound to image, is one of the things technology does well case in point is Close Encounters of the Third Kind is this captivating? in the case of Close Encounters it is. however, personally, i can only say that in other cases, such as the one below,…
Solution Evolution
Over the years, I’ve had many different backup solutions in place in my home to back up the now >3TB of data I deem worthy of the trouble. I’ve used RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6. I’ve used complete solutions and DIY on all the major platforms, as well as Linux flavors like Debian,…
Still My Guitar Gently Weeps
Just imagine the collective talent and experience onstage at one time here:
Maurice Sendak : Where The Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze worked with Lance Bangs on this new documentary about Maurice Sendak, who wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, which is in post-production having been directed by Jonze. Click on the image to see the trailer for the documentary.
Help Each Cheder Out
Fire ants build a living life raft in the Amazon (via kottke.org):
Rags to Riches : Jay DeMerit
Our pal’s brother, Jay DeMerit, has overcome seemingly impossible odds, triumphantly making it to the big time: JOHANNESBURG  On an unlikely United States national soccer team, there is no more unlikely player than defender Jay DeMerit, whose nickname is Rags to Riches and whose adventurous career path to the Confederations Cup involved van rides…
Joie de vivre
I read this today in the Business Insider: A new survey from UBS has shown that the French continue to work the least amount of hours per year in the world. Once again, the French have blown away the competition. People work an average of 1,902 hours per year in the surveyed cities but they…
Boston
Things Wikipedia teaches us about Boston: It’s the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the US. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial “Capital of New England”….
Yacht Rockers live on!
If there was ever any doubt that Yacht Rock would live on, may it be quashed by this and this and have a listen for yourself:
satellite browser
NASA hopes we enjoy J-Track 3-D. Clicking on the thumbnail below or here or there will activate JTrack3D and it will appear in its own window and begin loading a database of over 900 satellites. What you will see (presuming the system you’re on supports Java) is a plot in 3-dimensions showing the position of…
You’re a wolf
Sam Easterson used to work at the Walker. Here’s what he’s doing now: The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public’s capacity to empathize with animals and plants. Now,…
B A D A S S : HUDs
cheers to @drwave for turning me onto this:
walking on the moon
was turned onto this today via @edtechleader: