One thing I have to say I love about YouTube is seeing different versions of my favourite music videos. Here’s a sample of what you can find for ‘The Distance’ by Cake.
Cake version
Movie clip version
Speed Racer version
Yeah, there’s also the Guitar Hero version, the Tricycle version, the stop-motion version and so on…
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Scientific American reports on a study published in Oncology which claims that blogging is a good way to relieve psychological or physiological stress. The article likens a person’s overwhelming urge to blog with “self-medicating”. I’ve always believed that self-medicating and blogging go together well! I’m surprised someone hasn’t created [...]
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This morning, I’ve been nagged by two questions.
Question 1. Are software developers zombies?
According to Wikipedia,
modern zombies come in mobs and waves, seeking either flesh to eat or people to kill or infect. Typically, they show signs of physical decomposition such as rotting flesh, discolored eyes, and open wounds, and move with a slow, shambling [...]
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The old adage is that data is never wrong, but its interpretation may be left to “interpretation” is a good analogy to many software systems. Back ends spew out data. Middle layers sort through it. The UI layer displays it and sometimes tries to make sense of it… Trouble is… [...]
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So which would you find to be the better option? Would you rather eliminate the need to eat by replacing your stomach with an artificial one or would rather change the meat you eat to meet the needs of your diet?
Why not both you say?
Option A - Artificial Stomach: Bio-cell food replacement system [...]
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SM friend Marko points us to a terrific software development site: SoftwareCreation.org. Author Andriy Solovey has just posted an essay detailing the principles of good user-centered design. This isn’t something that many (most?) developers pay attention to. Andriy’s mantra is different:
Effective Software Systems are the systems that are easy to understand [...]
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This morning, I got an interesting email from a dazzling woman named Melinda Hathaway from GroundUpAdvertising. She wanted to purchase ad space on SensoryMetrics. But…we don’t do ads here. Then I checked out GroundUp… They have four lovely ladies working as advertisers. Troubling thing about those profile pictures though… [...]
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Strange things happen when your parents decide to clean out their basement and offer up vintage junk they’d been hoarding! This past weekend, I acquired a Jackson Instruments Model 648A portable dynamic tube tester (circa 1948 - maybe). Now I’m looking for some tubes to test!!
“Tubes? What are tubes?? [...]
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You’ve probably heard already of Tin Eye. We just got our entry into their beta… beta late than never!!
It’s a Toronto-based startup that’s re-inventing image search>> you upload an image, Tin Eye finds the matches. This is a bonus for web designers and publishers who need to know [...]
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