December 2
"I See String"
I just completed my first music video ever for my new music project, Youth is Truth. The entire thing was shot on my Nikon D90.
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cue.language: a small Java library for natural language text tasks
Over the 18 months or so that my
Wordle toy has been in heavy use, I've continually improved the rudimentary utilities I use to detect language, count words, and such. Thanks to IBM's relatively sane policies about open source software, I'm able to share that small body of code (and resources) with the world. So, if you want to auto-detect language, remove stop words in a bunch of languages, or count n-grams (with Java), then maybe this will be useful to you. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine anything less useful. I mean that literally. I mean, like, an ice tray that's too deep to fit in your freezer? Some expired photo-processing chemicals? Ague?
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ExpatQA.com - The World Is Your Question Mark!
Having lived outside of the states in Argentina for a year and a half, I wanted to give back to the community of expats. There are a lot of forums for expats out there, which are great, in that they help each other know that someone else is 'out there' - and provide some sort of community. In another sense, most forums aren't very good at the "Peanut Butter Problem"... Where can I get a jar/can/bag of (Insert Marmite/Tams/Winegums based on your specific national quirky food preference) in this #$!@$ town? That's where
expatqa.com comes in, with our motto, "The World Is Your Question Mark!" Questions and Answers for expats from anywhere living in any city worldwide are welcome!
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December 1
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Novel + Soundtrack
I've just released my novel,
The American Book of the Dead (about dreams, the end of the world, evolution, other things), and it's available for
free download in different formats on my site. I'm also recording a song for each chapter in the novel. Sort of a rock opera, but sort of not. Songs are
also available for free download. There will eventually be at least 26 songs to go along with the novel.
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November 25
Online Public Comment on the Healthy People 2020 Government Guidelines
Healthy People (funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services) provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Healthy People 2020 will reflect assessments of major risks to health and wellness, changing public health priorities, and emerging issues related to our nation's health preparedness and prevention. Public participation is shaping Healthy People 2020, its purpose, goals, organization, and action plans. HHS is seeking input from communities and stakeholders through public meetings across the country and public comment periods. Send your online feedback on the proposed objectives for Healthy People 2020. Comments will be accepted through December 31, 2009.
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November 24
Wallet Garden - simple protection from ID theft
A free (and kind of pretty) web app, with a really simple goal: help you out if you've lost your wallet.
Before you lose your wallet (that's the key part!) you go to
Wallet Garden and enter in the
customer service phone numbers for the different credit cards in your wallet (or purse). Then, if you lose your wallet while traveling, you have an easy go-to place to find all the numbers you need to call.
The holidays are coming up, and you'll probably be traveling. I hope you're able to keep your wallet in your pocket. But for all you perdedors, this will hopefully help you out if you find yourself in a bind.
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Words of the year/decade nominations are open
The American Dialect Society's annual vote, the longest-running vote of its kind in the world and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead, will be held in Baltimore on Friday, January 8, 2010. We're now accepting nominations from the entire English-speaking world for both word of the year 2009 and word of the decade for 2000-9. This is the society's 20th annual vote. It is an academic, non-commercial, whimsical event which in no way represents a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals officially inducting words into the language but surely we can do better than "defriend," "admonish," and "distracted driving." Send nominations to
woty@americandialect.org.
More details.
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Helperdeck, DIY build-assist app
Helperdeck is a small open-source application to help in building DIY electronics. It shows you a window with the circuit board you're soldering, plus windows for bags of components, schematics and build stages. Everything is correlated: You can click on the board and see what component fits where, and you can click in the bags to see where those components go on the board. The schematic is also correlated with the board. Building is much faster, easier and more fun with better information and less parts hunting. Should also be useful to teach kids or yourself about DIY electronics.
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A guide to books and writing in Philadelphia
A guide to books, author visits, bookstores, libraries, presses, writing and other literary phenomena in the Philadelphia area. I plan to interview authors coming to town, profile independent bookstores, promote literary events in the Philadelphia region, and generally talk about all things literary.
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November 19
Adventures in Subbing
In a recent question over at AskmeFi I was looking for blogs written by subs. I didn't find nearly as many as I wanted to that were still being updated. I'd been thinking about making this anyway, the lack of stuff just confirmed the fact that it needed to be done.
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November 18
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Brooklyn Brainery: Get into things
We were
tired of paying hundreds of dollars to take classes in things we could learn ourselves and sitting through surface-skimming lectures, so we created Brooklyn Brainery. Cheap, collaborative classes where you work through a subject without some Dr. Bossy teacher - just some books, Wikipedia, everyone else's experience, and maybe an ice cream maker. We cover everything from your grandmother's favorite crafts to pure snobbish intellectualism. Think book club on steroids!
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November 16
Welcome to Regret
is the new album by my band, Derailleur (and we also busted out a new website to match!). It's 12 songs long, and wanders from noise rock to alt country to just a hint of New Wave. It also features a fairly ridiculous (but awesome!) song about huffing Jenkem. Free to stream or download.
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November 13
HotTalkLA
From the ashes of the once dominant FM "Hot Talk" Talk format pioneered by CBS Radio's Los Angeles based KLSX-FM 97.1 rises the next generation of Talk Radio Entertainment…online and in your face at
www.HotTalkLA.com.
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Validate on Save for TextMate
I made a TextMate bundle that will validate/syntax check your PHP, Ruby, JavaScript or CSS files every time you save. Instead of saving and finding out in the browser that a comma, or bracket or something easily avoidable was missed, you can fix it right away. Ideally, this will save more time in aggregate than it took me to put together.
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November 10
Get the Web: A Book of the Best Foundational Essays About the Web
My friend and I are constantly recommending the same foundational essays--"1000 True Fans", "The Next Economy of Ideas" and so forth--to clients, colleagues, students and so forth. We thought it would be wise to compile these into a book--a toolkit for getting the web. Assuming we can secure author permissions, we'll publish an ebook and maybe a hardcopy version, donating any profits to the EFF. For now,
we're looking for recommendations for your favorite essays about the web.
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Great Catch
Here's a Superbowl Doritos commercial submission that I did the post-production on. (I apologize in advance for the aggressive embedded audio. Push the "skip intro" button fast for god's sake. It's way down in the bottom right corner.) I made it with some folks in St. Louis who believe that catching some fish starts with throwing out a line.
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November 4
How desperate are you for a Mac netbook?
The Askme question about a
hackintosh netbook a week and a half ago got me interested in making one myself. So I bought a Dell Mini 10v and made my own. This is a 3,400 word blog post about the advantages (some), disadvantages (many), and why the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for some people and not others. In addition, it's compared to a real Macintosh and is used as evidence for why I've come to believe that Apple's unlikely to ship a Mac netbook any time soon.
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Resurrected Recipes
Resurrected Recipes is devoted to researching and recreating recipes that are no longer in vogue, but were familiar to our grandparents, or even our great-great-grandparents and beyond. Many old recipes are very tasty, and it’s a mystery why they’ve been forgotten. Others have been forgotten for good reason. We’ll try them and find out which category they belong to.
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Habiter
A tiny tool for keeping good habits. Log whether you did complete whatever (keeping your room clean, jogging) and get a nice little graph of it in your console. Put the file on a USB drive and you can edit it because it's a simple text format (YAML). Install it with 'gem install habiter' if you've got a mac or linux machine with ruby + rubygems.
That's it.
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Renaming "favorites" with Greasemonkey
I wrote a Greasemonkey script that lets you, on-the-fly, modify the "favorites" label on comments. Originally written because the November experiment's "faved" was unpopular, but since updated for the classic count of favorites.
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November 3
Hometaping - record an album in a month
Hometaping is a big effort to get as many people as possible to record an album of music in a month. November is the Hometaping month (i.e. now!). At the end of the month, we'll link to your album or host it for you (you own everything, of course) and then we'll have a party to celebrate. Read the
about page or see the
FAQ on the site for more info. Or you can follow the project on Twitter:
@hmtpng
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November 2
Put This On
Put This On is a new web series (and website) about men's style for men who want to dress like grownups. I'm the host/producer, Adam Lisagor (aka LonelySandwich) is the director/cinematographer/editor/producer as well as an on-camera contributor. We just finished our first episode, and are looking, eventually, to get some money together to make more.
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October 31
Gloomy Halloween: Post-apocalyptic Music For Sole Survivor
I have made a new album. Dark and depressive post-apocalyptic cthulhutronica, from a bleak and lonely character, roaming and searching a lost future. This is glitchy, bleak, hopeless desperation, the soundtrack of an individual doomed to eternal solitude in the ruins of a extinct civilization. It is available as a full download in a pay-what-you-want model, and it is sure to cast a depressing, departing and end-is-nigh mood on absolutely any party.
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October 27
Seroquel hits the black market.
I've consistently expressed concerns in mental health threads on Mefi about the frequency with which the anti-psychotic medication Seroquel is prescribed off label for minor disorders like insomnia. Now, the drug is turning up on the streets in Philly.
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October 23
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Textual Noise
Textual Noise is a sort of Web 2.0 art project, consisting of a Python Twitterbot which tweets a random YouTube comment every hour, on the hour. It is essentially a text white noise generator, hence the name, and is the source of some highly amusing idiocy if nothing else.
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