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Another stab at micropatronage
I’ve started a micropatronage drive that, I hope, combines features of several of the previous drives. In this case, the proposition is to subsidize me while I fundraise for an accessibility research project. Supporters also have numerous zero-cost options, including the use of clever ad banners.
posted by joeclark at 10:29 PM on November 8, 2006
I’ve started a micropatronage drive that, I hope, combines features of several of the previous drives. In this case, the proposition is to subsidize me while I fundraise for an accessibility research project. Supporters also have numerous zero-cost options, including the use of clever ad banners.
posted by joeclark at 10:29 PM on November 8, 2006
Smart Source Code Search Engine
Codase is a powerful and smart source code search engine. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results.
posted by matthewchen at 10:09 AM on April 2, 2006
Codase is a powerful and smart source code search engine. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results.
posted by matthewchen at 10:09 AM on April 2, 2006
Docvert - not yet a verb
This is some web service software I've been working on to change MSWord to HTML or any XML. It's open source, cross-platform, and uses W3C standards for conversion. You can write your own themes and control everything down to the tag and attribute, so feel free to continue being an html nazi. The last release was back in september and this is all the work since then.
posted by holloway at 11:42 PM on March 14, 2006
This is some web service software I've been working on to change MSWord to HTML or any XML. It's open source, cross-platform, and uses W3C standards for conversion. You can write your own themes and control everything down to the tag and attribute, so feel free to continue being an html nazi. The last release was back in september and this is all the work since then.
posted by holloway at 11:42 PM on March 14, 2006
Php Regex Evaluator
A little tool I put together to help visualize the results of preg expressions on a block of text.
posted by crumbly at 9:51 AM on February 27, 2006
A little tool I put together to help visualize the results of preg expressions on a block of text.
posted by crumbly at 9:51 AM on February 27, 2006
FarmNotebook
I built this for market farmers, but it's just as useful for backyard gardeners. Keep track of all the varieties you're growing, when you planted them, started them in the greenhouse (or windowsill), transplanted them, and harvested them, and all the while your public page is continually updated with your information. Photos, history of all the heirloom varieties you grow, and information about your garden or farm will be readily available for your visitors. To see how your friends could see your garden (or your customers could see your farm), take a look at this example page: example.farmnotebook.com -- it's free to try, and $25 a year after the first month.
posted by ewagoner at 6:31 AM on February 22, 2006
I built this for market farmers, but it's just as useful for backyard gardeners. Keep track of all the varieties you're growing, when you planted them, started them in the greenhouse (or windowsill), transplanted them, and harvested them, and all the while your public page is continually updated with your information. Photos, history of all the heirloom varieties you grow, and information about your garden or farm will be readily available for your visitors. To see how your friends could see your garden (or your customers could see your farm), take a look at this example page: example.farmnotebook.com -- it's free to try, and $25 a year after the first month.
posted by ewagoner at 6:31 AM on February 22, 2006
Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing
My first book!
It's about ubiquitous computing - a post-PC paradigm for computing in which information processing systems are deployed everywhere around us, all but imperceptibly.
This means things like smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing...even smart bathtubs. Networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in "Minority Report." The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet. Even entire cities, like Korea's New Songdo, designed from the ground up to integrate all of these systems.
I ask how these systems might change us, and how we might shape them to our benefit. I've tried to keep the book accessible and nontechnical; it's pitched to the smart generalist who's interested in understanding how "information processing dissolving in behavior" is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to - and the way we see ourselves.
I'll be giving away a few copies when I give a talk on the book at SXSW in Austin on March 12th, but it's also available for order on Amazon right now at the above link. Enjoy!
posted by adamgreenfield at 7:33 AM on February 9, 2006
My first book!
It's about ubiquitous computing - a post-PC paradigm for computing in which information processing systems are deployed everywhere around us, all but imperceptibly.
This means things like smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing...even smart bathtubs. Networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in "Minority Report." The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet. Even entire cities, like Korea's New Songdo, designed from the ground up to integrate all of these systems.
I ask how these systems might change us, and how we might shape them to our benefit. I've tried to keep the book accessible and nontechnical; it's pitched to the smart generalist who's interested in understanding how "information processing dissolving in behavior" is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to - and the way we see ourselves.
I'll be giving away a few copies when I give a talk on the book at SXSW in Austin on March 12th, but it's also available for order on Amazon right now at the above link. Enjoy!
posted by adamgreenfield at 7:33 AM on February 9, 2006
faster - a flickr game
Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue. Then you can watch the pictures until the next set begins. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every five minutes.
posted by scottreynen at 6:44 PM on January 24, 2006
Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue. Then you can watch the pictures until the next set begins. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every five minutes.
posted by scottreynen at 6:44 PM on January 24, 2006
Sabah, Malaysia: A Photo Travelogue
A photographic travelogue of our trip to Sabah, Malaysia where we ascended the region's highest peak - Mt Kinabalu. Includes climbing tips and guides and recommendations to tour and travel agencies.
posted by arrowhead at 4:54 AM on January 15, 2006
A photographic travelogue of our trip to Sabah, Malaysia where we ascended the region's highest peak - Mt Kinabalu. Includes climbing tips and guides and recommendations to tour and travel agencies.
posted by arrowhead at 4:54 AM on January 15, 2006
The Universal Text Imitator
This is a set of software tools to generate random sentences that imitate the style and content of any (English) body of text. Like SCIGen or The Postmodern Generator, but more general-purpose, and less coherent. It's a bit too heavy-duty to work in a web app, but the scripts are there to download, and there are lots of samples, imitating Poe, Einstein, George Bush, and others. This was partly a project for a class, so the explanation might be a bit dense, but feel free to just skip to the funny sentences.
posted by antispork at 9:52 PM on January 2, 2006
This is a set of software tools to generate random sentences that imitate the style and content of any (English) body of text. Like SCIGen or The Postmodern Generator, but more general-purpose, and less coherent. It's a bit too heavy-duty to work in a web app, but the scripts are there to download, and there are lots of samples, imitating Poe, Einstein, George Bush, and others. This was partly a project for a class, so the explanation might be a bit dense, but feel free to just skip to the funny sentences.
posted by antispork at 9:52 PM on January 2, 2006
Voices in the Dark
"Audio books and stories read aloud by real people for free!" is what it says on the front page, and that's what it is. My wife and I, and a few other folks, have recorded dozens of short stories and a few longer ones (including Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom) and put them up for free download in high quality MP3 form. Up since December 2004.
posted by seanmpuckett at 2:18 PM on December 19, 2005
"Audio books and stories read aloud by real people for free!" is what it says on the front page, and that's what it is. My wife and I, and a few other folks, have recorded dozens of short stories and a few longer ones (including Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom) and put them up for free download in high quality MP3 form. Up since December 2004.
posted by seanmpuckett at 2:18 PM on December 19, 2005
Raise £1m for charity, compete at the Olympics
Sometimes we all need a challenge, something grand, something huge that stretches us. Mine is quite simple : in 2012, I shall be 39. In the intervening 7 years, I must pick a sport and get good enough at it to be at the London Olympics - and raise £1m for charity. Possible? Click the link, follow the story.
posted by jonthegeologist at 7:12 AM on December 22, 2005
Sometimes we all need a challenge, something grand, something huge that stretches us. Mine is quite simple : in 2012, I shall be 39. In the intervening 7 years, I must pick a sport and get good enough at it to be at the London Olympics - and raise £1m for charity. Possible? Click the link, follow the story.
posted by jonthegeologist at 7:12 AM on December 22, 2005
RandomProxy
...allows you to talk to a random person anonymously on the AIM network. Have fun.
posted by phrontist at 6:51 PM on December 11, 2005
...allows you to talk to a random person anonymously on the AIM network. Have fun.
posted by phrontist at 6:51 PM on December 11, 2005
2006 Lunar Wheel Calender
It proved popular last year (the link from mefi helped). Thus time for us to make an update for 2006, now with US timezones.
An easy to use year planner, designed to stop nasty deadlines sneaking up on you and to keep you in tune with the day lengths and seasons. Covered by Creative Commons, it's free to download from OurMedia (low-res at Flickr), print out, remix and even sell. Do with it what you will.
There's also a cafepress link, if you can't find a printer to handle the size. But if you're planning on giving a number of them to friends for the holidays it's cheaper to upload the file to your own cafepress shop and buy at cost price, or support your local print shop.
posted by RevDanCatt at 6:34 AM on November 21, 2005
It proved popular last year (the link from mefi helped). Thus time for us to make an update for 2006, now with US timezones.
An easy to use year planner, designed to stop nasty deadlines sneaking up on you and to keep you in tune with the day lengths and seasons. Covered by Creative Commons, it's free to download from OurMedia (low-res at Flickr), print out, remix and even sell. Do with it what you will.
There's also a cafepress link, if you can't find a printer to handle the size. But if you're planning on giving a number of them to friends for the holidays it's cheaper to upload the file to your own cafepress shop and buy at cost price, or support your local print shop.
posted by RevDanCatt at 6:34 AM on November 21, 2005
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