More Jonathan Coulton

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Internet Crash 2007

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

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The Very Best Of Jonathan Coulton

Chiron Beta Prime:


The Future Soon


Tom Cruise Crazy


Codemonkey !!!


http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton

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Flight Of The Conchords - The Humans Are Dead

The mighty folk comedy duo New Zealand's Flight Of The Conchords proform their song "Humans Are Dead" Enjoy :



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Bionic Eastender

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Discussions follow Folding@home success

Sony is currently in talks with a number of companies on the commercial use of the PlayStation 3.

Following the launch of the Folding@home initiative, where latent PS3 power is used to help calculate research for Stanford University, commercial businesses could soon make use of similar scheme, reports the Financial Times.

more ...



http://folding.stanford.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

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Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

http://www.gregpalast.com/
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Shift Happens

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Robert Newman History of oil

http://www.robnewman.com/
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Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video

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Code Monkey Song

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Supermarket 2.0

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Augmented Reality

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Create your own myspace with Ning.com

Ning lets you build your own myspace style social network in minutes. Plus it's free and everything including the design and code is customisable !





more info:

ning.com
http://www.technorati.com/search/ning?language=en&authority=a4

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This IS the web 2.0

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How to get started with Podcasting

So you want to get started podcasting.
Even Comic Strip Blogger is doing it:
http://www.btpodshow.com/shows/?mode=current&show_id=781

So here is how you do a podcast:
1) Get some recording software, Audacity is free, there is even a portable version you can run from a usb drive. Audacity will run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

2) Get a good quality microphone. The mic that is built into your laptop or that came with your desktop PC WILL NOT BE GOOD ENOUGH. You can buy a good quality mic for around £50 from ebay.
3) Record your audio with Audacity, edit it, then save it to an mp3 file (you will need to download the LAME codec to do this).
4) Upload you mp3 file to your webspace (you will need some webspace from a hosting company to do this).
5) Sign up for a Google Blogger account (or any other blogging system but blogger is easy to get started with). Create a blog post for each mp3 file. Link to your hosted mp3 file in each post. You can describe the content of each postcast in each post.
6) Sign up for a feedburner podcaster account. 'Burn' the feed from your blog with feedburner (this will transform the feed to podcast friendly RSS 2.0 with the correct media enclosures for your mp3 file links).
7) Submit your feedburner RSS feed to iTunes and other podcast directories like Podcast Alley and Podshow.

more info:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable
http://podcasts.psu.edu/pcaudacity
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/podcast_quickstart
http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/Make_Podcast_Blogger.html
http://podcastingscout.com/how-to-submit-your-podcast-to-itunes-music-store
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1904&brandID=2
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Adam Curry to give interview to CSB

Who is Adam Curry?
He is the billionaire king of podcasting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_curry
Who is comic strip blogger ?
Mad man???
http://comicstripblog.com/
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Kevin Smith Talks About Superman

Kevin Smith is a great story teller, this is a long video but it has a great punchline at the end:



Kevin Smith info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_smith
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003620/
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Lego Aircraft Carrier !

Check out this massive Lego model:

In his youth, the 36-year-old IT consultant loved nothing more than building miniature planes, trains and automobiles from the miniature bricks.

But his latest project has been a little more ambitious – he has used 300,000 Lego bricks to construct a scale model of one of the largest ships afloat, the mighty USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier.

His model is now the largest Lego ship in the world, measuring 4.5m (14.7ft) and weighing more than 160kg (353lb).

And it floats ?



more info and pics here:

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=30901&in_page_id=2
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/01/lego-aircraft-carrier.html

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Web2.0 Style Button Tutorial

This is an example of the web buttons you can create using my latest photoshop tutorial:


So if you are interested in creating Web2.0 buttons head over to my tutorial blog:

http://adobe-photoshop-tutorial.blogspot.com/

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Sun's Project Blackbox - A Datacentre in a Shipping Container

Sun is building datacentres inside shipping containers. They are water cooled, densely packed with Sun servers and super portable. So you can easily move it to where it's needed or where energy is cheapest.

You'll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world's first virtualized datacenter--built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies. - Sun

The Project Blackbox prototype is a computing powerhouse capable of hosting a configuration that would place it among the top 200 fastest supercomputers globally. The current prototype could support the following capacities:

• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 Sun Fire T1000 servers with the CoolThreads technology with 2000 cores and 8000 simultaneous threads.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could provide as much as 1.5 petabytes of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could provide 7 terabytes of memory.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could handle up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users.
  
• A single Project Blackbox currently has sufficient power and cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment.
  

more info:
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This is what 'Comic Strip Blogger' thinks of the UK Big Brother affair

http://comicstripblog.com/

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Hot Fuzz - The New Simon Pegg Film

If you liked 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Spaced' you'll love Hot Fuzz:



more Fuzz info:
http://workingtitlefilms.com/film.php?filmID=99
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/

more Simon Pegg info:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670408/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pegg

more Simon Pegg clips:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simon+pegg&search=Search

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Simon Pegg / David Schwimmer Film:

Big Nothing:



http://www.bignothing.co.uk/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488085/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - in cgi

Leonardo - The de facto leader of the Turtles, Leonardo is courageous, decisive, and a disciplined student of martial arts. As a strict adherent to Bushido, he has a very strong sense of honor and justice. He wears a blue mask and wields a pair of katana. He is named after Leonardo da Vinci.

Raphael - The team "anti-hero", Raphael has an aggressive nature and seldom hesitates to throw the first punch. His personality can be alternately fierce, sarcastic, and full of angst. He wears a red mask and wields a pair of sai. He is named after Raphael Sanzio.

Michelangelo - The easy-going and free-spirited Michelangelo provides much of the comic relief. While he loves to read comics and eat pizza, this Turtle also has an adventurous side. He wears an orange mask and wields a pair of nunchaku. He is named after Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Donatello - The brilliant scientist, inventor, and technology geek, Donatello has a reputation as something of a smart aleck. He is perhaps the least violent Turtle, preferring to use his intellect to solve conflicts. He wears a purple mask and wields the bō. He is named after Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi.

- from wikipedia

more info:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/
http://tmnt.warnerbros.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453556/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles

Apple iPhone video demos

Apple iPhone - makes everything else look rubbish!

This makes all other mobile devices look outdated! It's a wide-screen video ipod, phone and internet tablet all in one. Everyone is going to want one:













Apple iPhone!

"Everybody hates their phone, and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there." - Jobs told Time

Its got a wide-screen touch screen, runs a version of OSX, has a great interface, full version of the safari browser, 8GB flash memory, iTunes and other data syncing, automatic landscape/portrait switching via an accelerometer, is a quad band GSM/EDGE smartphone with speaker, has a 2MP camera, has Wi-Fi and bluetooth and push IMAP email.

Battery life: 5 hours of talk time, video, and browsing. 16 hours of audio playback.

Cost: $600 with 2 year contract. Shipping in June in the US and Q4 in Europe.

Maybe 3G, twin batteries, video out, video capture, 30gb hard drives, gps, replaceable battery, support for 3rd party software and flash cards will be added for version 2, 3 or 4 ?

Video:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/

More info:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
engadget.com
more pics
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2370
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2371
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1575410,00.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time-with-the-iphone/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX1Lz8PDgg8

Laptop Laser Engraving

Laser engraving of images on laptops:

Kevin Rose using an engraved laptop on Diggnation:


The laptop getting engraved:


click above for a larger image

He and Fried hope there will be solid demand for the company's services in New York, particularly because the laser-etching machinery, a 35-watt machine from Epilog Laser, runs about $15,000.

more info:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldandersen/sets/72157594384643188/
http://www.epiloglaser.com/
http://www.trotec.net/
http://www.identify.co.uk/level3_lasers.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm89tfprStE
makezine.com
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/how_its_made_laser_etching_pow.html
http://www.adafruit.com/laser/
http://dev.freeverse.com/monkeyblog/archives/2006/12/lasing_around.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6143072.html
http://www.etchamac.com/
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/laptop/laser-etching-a-powerbook-197202.php
more laser etching pics on flickr
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/24/moto_miami_ink_razr/
http://www.laserdevils.com/ipod_engraving.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_engraving

Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood

Weird Al Yankovic's new album:
on amazon







Weird Al info from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Al_Yankovic

Nerdcore

From Wikipedia:

Nerdcore hip hop, or geeksta rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that is performed by nerds or geeks, and is characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot coined the term in 2000 in the song "Nerdcore Hiphop".

Trailer for the documentary, Nerdcore For Life, which chronicles the tumultuous world of Nerdcore Hip-Hop:



more info:
http://nerdcoreforlife.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdcore_hip_hop

Estrada Tasered

Detailed Eric Estrada information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Estrada

Create your own Digg with Pligg

You're a Digg fanboy. You want to be the next Kevin Rose and create the next Digg. Or maybe you are an evil Jason Calacanis type that wants to destroy Digg (Rose Vs Calacanis). Now you can with the free Pligg CMS:
http://pligg.com/

Pligg FAQ:
http://www.pligg.com/faq.html

Example Sites:
http://www.jossle.com/
http://www.gamediggity.com/
http://www.gamesnips.com/
http://dealigg.com/

Kevin Rose talks about Digg at the Future of Web Apps conference:
Kevin_Rose.mp3

The next FOWA conference (with Kevin Rose as a speaker) is in London in February:
http://www.futureofwebapps.com/speakers.html

This is what the comic strip blogger thinks of Calacanis: