i’ve always had a thing for typography and after coming across these shirts i had to confess that they were the tits. im ordering now! you can too at brilliancy.eu.

[found via designyoutrust] [brilliancy.eu]

It takes you through the following hour long segments:

1. Hello World
2. Just Enough Ruby
3. Basic Rails
4. Advanced Active Record
5. AJAX and Testing
6. Configuration and Deployment

the following is a quote from their youtube description:
“This is an intensive one-day overview of the fundamental concepts of the Ruby on Rails Web programming framework, presented by the UC Berkeley RAD Lab. The overview consists of six sections of approximately one hour each.”

[ Berkeley - Ruby on Rail Video Lecture ] [ Ruby on Rails 1-day Course - Wiki Entry ]

My days are filled with coffee, cigarettes, car rides, work and music. I already use the services of Last.fm and Pandora.com to filter out the enormous amounts of crap music strewn through out the internet. Although, the previous services helps me discover new bands by finding other users that have similar musical tastes as mine there are always other new and interesting avenues to the same conclusion.

Here enters a new breed of social music discovery called blip.fm. This service is explained simplest by calling it Twitter with music. Once you arrive at the home page after you’ve registered all you need to do is type in the song you want to blip. This brings up a list of user submitted songs hosting accross the internet. You can preview the song and decide wether to blip or not. If you decide to blip this song your allowed to add a small message to it.

Where the social aspect comes into play is that users who are attracted to your playlists can befriend you and you the same to them. If they find a particular song that they really enjoy that can give you “props” for it. “Props” in Blip.fm land is like cred currency. You earn them by either blipping or by getting props. This then allows you to use them on others.

Blip.fm may not be the end all, be all of social music sharing but it is an interting new service thats helped me fill up my music folder with new albums. This is a good thing in my book.

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/imap'
 
usernames = ['username1', 'username2', 'username3', 'username4']
passwords = ['password1', 'password2', 'password3', 'password4']
 
 
aFile = File.open("/tmp/emailcount", "w") do |aFile|
  if aFile    
 
    for i in 0...usernames.length
      count = 0
      imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com','993',true)
      imap.login(usernames[i], passwords[i])
      imap.select('INBOX')
      imap.search(["NOT", "DELETED"]).each do |message_id|
        count = count + 1
      end
      aFile.syswrite( "#{usernames[i]}: #{count}\n" )
      imap.logout()
      imap.disconnect()
 
    end
 
  else
    puts "cannot open emailcount file"
  end
 
end

then add this to your .conkyrc config file

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${color}${execi 30 cat /tmp/emailcount}

I’m a huge fan of the dead milkmen and it seems as if they might be getting back together. Well, at least for a couple shows. This all started back in November of 2008 when they played the Fun Fun Fun Festival in Austin, Texas. They had so much fun they’ve decided to keep on rehearsing to see what new material might materialize. The great thing is that they’ve already booked about 10 shows across the states. If i wasn’t so busy and broke i would surely be attending one of these shows.

correction: seems that i read the article wrong and they have not booked 10 shows. They have, however, booked one show in Brooklyn on April 17th. The other nine shows are actually Joe’s solo work which will be appearing at SXSW this year.

this news is fucking fantastic! here a flickr photo set taken by Dean’s sister [flickr set].

[ via deadmilkmen.com ]

Imagine driving yourself to work and passing a road safety sign with the following message. “Zombies Ahead” The above sign was hacked this week in the boston area and i-hacked.com has directions on how to change the display message on those programmable road signs.

[ via i-hacked.com ]

this video nearly made me piss my pants.

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<?
$limitToShow = 10;
$xmlcontent = "";
$xfh = fopen("http://identi.ca/evolmachine/rss", "r");
 
while( !feof($xfh) ) {
	$xmlcontent .= fread( $xfh, 128 );
}
fclose( $xfh );
 
$feedArr = array();
 
$xml = simplexml_load_string( $xmlcontent );
 
foreach ( $xml->item as $item ) {
	$feedItem['title'] = (string) $item->title;
	$feedItem['link'] = (string) $item->link;
	$feedItem['description'] = (string) $item->description;
	$feedItem['date'] = (string) $item->date;
	array_push( $feedArr, $feedItem );
}?>
 
<ul>	
	<? 
	$count = 0;
	foreach( $feedArr as $item ) {
		if( $count < $limitToShow ) { ?>
			<li><a href="<?=$item['link'];?>"><?=$item['title'];?></a></li>
		<? $count+=1; }
	} ?>
</ul>

you do need php compiled with simplexml for this script to work. All you need then is to include this where you want your identi.ca feed to show up!

After thinking about it for several seconds I’ve decided to place my slackware packages where people can download it. here they are >> slackware 12.0 packages and slackware 12.1 packages