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i♥cabbages: Circumventing Barnes & Noble DRM for EPUB

by karlcow

In a move sure to leave consumers scratching their heads (especially the ones already wondering why they bought a Nook), Barnes & Noble has decided to implement their own DRM scheme for EPUB books. They partnered with Adobe to do it (it’s a variant of their ADEPT scheme), and all the Adobe SDK users will get access to it eventually. But for now much hilarity ensues as consumers buy books they can’t read on their devices.

December 2009

Shifting focus - Edward Bilodeau

by karlcow

Shifting focus

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ~ 4:54 PM

This is the last new post that I'll be making on this blog. I decided a while back to shift the focus of my web activities, and thought it was time to formally close things off here.

Why stop posting here? Mostly just a feeling that I needed to shake things up a bit, to put some serious effort behind a few other ideas that I've wanted to work on for a while. Making a clean break just felt right.

There may still be some activity on this site as I back-fill some old posts from other blogging platforms. My goal is to eventually have this as a (more or less) complete archive of my personal blogging from early 1998 to this year. That's a background project of mine that I plan on allocating a bit more time to in 2010.

A huge thanks to Karl Dubost for hosting this blog for so long. In addition to providing this infrastructure, Karl has supported and inspired me in more ways then he may realize. That you are reading this today is due in no small part to him, so you can thank (or blame!) him.

Thanks to Ed for his wonderful piece of work that is his weblog.

scott.j38.net » archive » TypeStar

by sbrothier
This is a screencast of a Processing sketch I developed called TypeStar. It’s basically a karaoke machine that renders lyrics in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes. It was originally created for a project in my Type in Motion class which required students to create a kinetic type animation for the Busy Bee scene from the movie Best in Show. I decided that rather than create yet another kinetic type piece, I would write a kinetic type engine.

The Ingoing

by karlcow

I have decided to stop blogging here.

archiving time?

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Masaru Tatsuki’s Decotora Photo Op

by sbrothier
On a dark and rainy night, bright and blinding lights approach a vacant lot, off a Japanese highway - just if Shibuya’s blinking neon signs decided to move themselves past you… However, it’s some proud and lonely trucker halting for a rest! Welcome to the world of Decotora, short for decorated trucks!

Home - UXcamp Europe 2010 @ mixxt

by julie

UXcamp Europe will be taking place in Berlin on the 29th and 30th May 2010.

Taking the lead from the hugely successful UXcamp Berlin 2009, we have decided to extend our borders and create an international event. The focus of the event will be:

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

Usability Engineering

Visual Design

Prototype Engineering

Linkcontainer Formats : DLC (Download Link Container), CCF (Cryptloads's containerformat, broken) and RSDF (Rapidshare Downloader Format, broken) - [JDownloader]

by decembre
Link-Containers are encrypted linklists. Using Containerfiles, it is very comfortable to provide many links at once. Moreover a encrypted container hides it's links from curious eyes. There are three different container formats: DLC, CCF (Cryptloads's containerformat, broken) and RSDF (Rapidshare Downloader Format, broken). JDownloader can handle all of them. DLC :Download Link Container , After RSDF and CCF got cracked, the JD-team decided to create a new Containerformat with the objectives to allow anybody to create DLCs and to allow every Loader to read DLCs. In order to live up to those expectations DLC uses a client-server encryption. Links are processed locally while the keys are distributed and recrypted by a webservice. To date, the DLC encryption has not been broken.

My Page Rank Went Up!

by macbros
Finally! My Google Page Rank went up instead of down for a change! All year I have been watching my Page rank go down one notch at a time each time Google decided to update their so called Page Ranking System.

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November 2009

jeKai Home Page

by ycc2106
a group of volunteers throughout the world began creating an open, free, online Japanese-English dictionary. The form and content of the dictionary are decided by the participants in the project. Among its features are the following: * Definitions that explain the meaning of words as completely as possible * As many examples as possible of each word in real contexts * Photographs and other illustrations, especially for entries about uniquely Japanese things * No restrictions on the type or range of vocabulary * No restrictions on the length of entries The dictionary has been named jeKai (je海), pronounced "jay-kai" or ジェーカイ.

Lessons Learned Shooting with the Canon 5D Mark II :: digitalartwork – Multimedia Journalism

by sbrothier
For the Michael Jackson Memorial piece I worked on, we decided before I left for L.A. that we would use the Canon 5D Mark II to try and push the look of the piece, and to try something new. The first thing I did, is call up a freelancer, Patrick Burke, to run sound. Patrick used to be an AC (Assistant Camera) in L.A. so he came with all the right tools, including a film slate that we used to sync audio from a Marantz PMD660 to the video footage of the 5D.

CAN Outreach blog » Blog Archive » Telling stories using maps

by sbrothier
The first thing Joy Suliman focuses on in the morning is the Alessi kettle sitting on her stove top. The funky Italian design prepares her for a great day. Just looking at the slick lines and quirky details makes her feel good as she pours water into it for her cup of tea. In gratitude to how this beautiful design makes her feel, the former CAN project manager decided her kettle’s story deserved to be told.

Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts

by karlcow

People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.

KN | Kitsune Noir » International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters by Simon Page

by karlcow

I came across some work by Simon Page after rooting around Dropular but when I saw these posters I was absolutely blown away. Simon started out doing these posters as a personal project but when the International Year of Astronomy folks saw them the decided to use them as promotional pieces.

October 2009

Cañon City Daily Record - Film crew wraps up shooting in area

by sbrothier & 1 other
French journalists working on Web documentary Charlotte Burrous / The Daily Record Visiting Fremont County was more than what they ever dreamed about. It went so well they have decided to come back this fall to complete the Web documentary, which is supported by the National Centre du Cinema in Paris. Traveling from France, journalist David Dufresne and photographer Philippe Brault arrived recently to create a Web documentary on society and the culture of the people who live in the prisons and around them in Fremont County.

Cañon City Daily Record - French filmmakers focus on prison industry in Fremont County

by sbrothier
French filmmakers focus on prison industry in Fremont County. Charlotte Burrous / The Daily Record Reading an article in a French newspaper about Cañon City in the 1990s captured their imagination. But they had to put it on the backburner until recently when David Dufresne and Philippe Brault decided the time had arrived.

technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python

by karlcow

I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.

September 2009

Derek Powazek - How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half

by karlcow

This week the biggest dust storm in 70 years blew through Australia, and the photos of it were stunning. So on Wednesday at noon, I decided to make a photo magazine. It was published on MagCloud Thursday night. All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in.

THOMAS PAUL at ELSEWARES / 718-502-8893

by sbrothier
When a young New York necktie designer named Thomas Paul Fernez decided to try his hand at home textiles and housewares, he was really onto something. His inspired sense of contrast in both color and proportion began to define a signature Thomas Paul style, reinterpreting classic fine china motifs for modern sensibilities.

Latest busks | BANDSTAND BUSKING

by gregg
There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? ...well we hadn't so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.

prettyGallery - by Stephane Caron

by cascamorto
Once again, I wasn't satisifed with most of the gallery scripts out there. So I decided to build my own.

August 2009

UK Street Art x Banksy vs Bristol Museum | Gallery, videos and reviews

by gregg
UK Street Art made the journey to Bristol and we were blown away so much by the exhibition that we decided to pop up our own microsite dedicated to such a fantastic artist. You can find articles, videos and a near complete photo gallery of the exhibition. This one will go down in history...

How Men And Women Argue | Maxim.com

by ycc2106
Men and women have very different ways of arguing. So, in a better effort to help couples understand each other (which, really, is what we're all about here at Maxim), we decided to break down the thought process of both a man and woman, during an argument.

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse on Vimeo

by karlcow & 2 others

November 9th 2007 - November 13th 2008

one year on foot - 4646km through China

unlimited beard & hair growth

thelongestway.com

musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo

Additional info:

- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.

- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.

- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.

- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.

- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo - "Olive Tree" and 2) The Kingpins - "L'aventurier" - visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.

- This is not a strict "1 pic a day" video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.

- The core of this project is in fact my website "www.thelongestway.com" where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.

Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure?

by marco
The basic answer to your question is that the people who run the net, all umpteen million of us, have collectively decided that it's cheaper to live with the damage that criminals cause than to deal with the problems that let them do it. Change that attitude, then we can talk.

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