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This is an Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

throk — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:11:45 +0000

This is quite awesome.

Stumbled Across: Professor Kliq, independent electronic music

throk — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:09:35 +0000

I was looking for some music to use in a demo video that I'm creating for work. I was looking for some creative commons stuff or something that had a flexible license. I came across Jamendo which provides a way for artists to give away, license, and sell music; and quite a bit of the music is free for personal use.

The album Community Service by Professor Kliq caught my attention. Get it on Jamendo

A collection of works from 2005 to 2009. Professor Kliq's compilation samples every genre of music he's ever created. Everything from conceptual experimentation and heavy rock influece are present. Even school projects have made their way into it. Tracks are sampled from 2006's Guns Blazin and 2008's The Scientific Method: Volume II, and include one unreleased track from the Guns Blazin era. Visit http://www.professorkliq.com for more, and to keep up with news on Professor Kliq.

- Description from Jamendo

The Internet is a Mystery

throk — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:21:19 +0000

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This was an experiment using the new <video> element in HTML5. If you have a crappy browser and this just doesn't work you can use this link directly to the video.

17 Second clip from the System Crash: Break and Enter show on the Smithsonian Channel. Recorded Jan. 24, 2010. This clip is the copyright of the Smithsonian Channel, use of this clip has is with the understanding of Fair Use. So don't sue me or anything, even though the the Smithsonian is funded by the U.S. Government, so it should be cool. And they said it was cool.

Automatically Update Copyright Year on a Website (For Dummies)

throk — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:32:23 +0000

It may seem like a trivial thing to some, but many web designers, novices, and bloggers don't know how to have the copyright year automatically update on their website.

It's true that the year should really only be updated when the content has been updated, but for small business that don't get around to updating their content much. An ancient copyright year can look bad to prospective customers.

To show the current year, just use the following PHP code snippet.

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

The full thing (assuming the current year is 2010)

For more information see the PHP documentation about the date function.

New Lens! 35mm

throk — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:20:37 +0000

I picked up a AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G ($199) for my Nikon D60 and I'm stoked with it so far. I snapped a few quick pics of some things on my desk. I got this lens for two reasons, It is awesome for macro shots and it has excellent low light performance.

The shots below were with iso 100 and no flash!

These first few test shots are not at all encompasing all the uses of the lens, nor are they particularly good. I'm just really excited to have a different lens to give me the oppurtunity to take some more interesting pictures.

A little too close for comfort: Did Read It Later rip off Plex?

throk — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:18:30 +0000

Recently, Read It Later underwent a total redesign including a logo redesign. It was immediately clear to me that this logo looked a little too much like that of Plex.

Read It Later is an offline/online application that allows you to save web pages to view later. [website]

Plex is an open source media center application for the Mac. Which basically kicks ass. [website]

It just seems really weird to me how much the RIL branding looks so much like Plex. Even the favicons of the sites are almost indistinguishable.

I know that the right arrow thingy > isn't anything out of the ordinary, but the colors and everything seem to be eerily close. Even when laid on top of one another the logos fit together nicely.

The fact of the matter is that Plex announced it's new logo August 15, 2008, and RIL on December 14, 2009.

What are your thoughts?

Awesome Lego Matrix Stop Motion

throk — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:25:49 +0000

This is simply awesome.

View this in full HD right here in a lightbox. (it's cool, trust me)

VIA Wired Gadget Lab

Letter from Mick Jager to Andy Warhol

throk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:37:40 +0000

My buddy Eric ( @wakeeze ) sent me this letter from Mic Jager to Andy Warhol asking him to make the artwork for their next album.

The cool thing is Mick gives Andy carte blanche to do whatever he wants.

click on the image to enlarge

Surprised Kitty

throk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:21:48 +0000

Surprised Kitty

Via @sephira

I finally got Ecto working correctly (enough) with Drupal

throk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:10:15 +0000

I finally got Ecto working correctly (enough) with Drupal.

The optimal settings are MetaWeblog API, and I had to do some messing around with the timezones to get the right timestamp to show up. Drupal is smarter than most blogging platforms so that causes some issues.

It's also pretty annoying that there has been basically zero updates to Ecto since I bought it. Pretty frustrating nonetheless.