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right now i'm...
by blackgoldfish
Hearing: Norah Jones, The Nearness of You, and the tappity tap of small-scale furniture being re-positioned in it's wooden doll house
Smelling: rosemary bread in the oven
Touching: chopping freshly rinsed basil for pesto penne alfredo
Seeing: a yellow no. two pencil with a fat nub eraser scratching out spelling words on double-ruled paper
Tasting: iced ceylon tea
inspiring touch-related interaction design | re/touch: an encyclopædia of touch and culture
by karlcow
re/touch brings together hundreds of cross-cultural examples of social norms and values involving touch—all categorised according to actions related to touching.
ArtistX - eXtra ordinary art tools
by m.meixide
& 1 other
ArtistX is a free live GNU/Linux DVD which turns a common computer into a full multimedia production studio.
It is based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux and contains nearly all the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Linux computing platform. It doesn't need to be installed, and boots directly into a running system without touching hard drives. The files produced with ArtistX can be easily stored on USB devices or CD/DVD medium while it is running. If you want to install it please take a look to our documentation to the ArtistX Installation Manual (Live DVD section).
Fix You (Coldplay) Young@Heart Chor
by blackgoldfish
That scene from the film is very touching. Two of this man's dear friends, both in their 80s, had just passed away that very week...and one of the two gentlemen was Fred's duet partner
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2008
CESSA: Montreal Sound Map
by karlcow
Sound maps are in many ways the most effective auditory archive of an environment, touching on aspects political, artistic, cultural, historical, and technological. We are aiming to create an archival database of sound recordings from all over Montréal. The Montréal Sound Map is an ongoing and continually evolving project with the goal of a constant addition of new recordings being placed into a browsable tagging system (see road map).
Jeffrey Tambor: 'Arrested Development' Movie is Happening - Cinematical
by bouilloire
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh NO TOUCHING !!!!!
Twitter / ahmednaguib: Gaza Sderot "life in spite ...
by srcmax
(via)
Gaza Sderot "life in spite of everything"...touching documentary :) http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/ well designed too :)
Remote iTunes | control iTunes from a remote computer
by garret
& 1 other
If you have ever wanted to remotely control a computer running iTunes then this is your solution. Using the remote Mac's Bonjour name or I.P. address you can control most of the basic iTunes functions without ever touching the remote Mac. Play/Pause the music, make new playlists, turn the volume up or down, search the music database, and have fun!
Flash vs. Javascript for Web Mapping Applications: Our Experience with Maker! | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
by karlcow
All this makes the raw computation speed of javascript much closer to Flash, but Flash still wins for vector graphics and I don’t see canvas or SVG touching it soon (although if it’s in IE8 I may change my story…)
Official Gmail Blog: Tip: Read your mail without touching your mouse
by ghis
(via)
Comment lire ses mails sur Gmail sans utiliser la souris et gagner du temps.
2007
Intimate Controllers
by keusta
'Intimate Controllers' is a platform where video games are played by couples touching each other.
SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0
by gregg
& 6 others
Create interactive data-rich web pages like these ones below without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming:
Tempest for Eliza
by rike_
You need no additional hardware to understand that it is really possible to observe your computer without physically touching it. (tempest). I wrote this program because it was fun and because it teaches in an amusing way that tempest really exists. i want people to understand that their computers can be observed. And last but not least you can listen to music without a soundcard!
FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economy
by jdrsantos
& 3 others
FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. We also develop a simple to use and easily extendable toolkit used for the creati
Simple Meditations
by mattbe
(via)
and thymus glands respectively.
Again sitting comfortably on a chair or on a cushion, take a few gentle deep breaths to relax your body. Now allow your upper body to slowly begin swaying in a clockwise direction, whilst simultaneously pressing the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Do this for 2 or 3 minutes. This stimulates the pituitary gland.
Next, whilst still sitting upright, slowly tip your head forward until your chin is nearly touching your chest. Hold this position for a few seconds and then begin moving your head backwards, as far as is comfortable, so you are looking up at the sky and hold this position for a few seconds. Next, bring your head back to an upright position and slowly tip your head sideways as far as is comfortable, first to the left and then the right, holding for a few seconds in each position. Repeat this pattern once more. This stimulates the thyroid gland in the throat area.
Finally, begin to gently tap the area in the centre of your chest, 2 inches above where the centre of the rib cage ends. Do this for 1 or 2 minutes. This stimulates the thymus gland.
This meditation encourages the activity of these three crucial glands in our body which release the hormones that control: happiness, metabolism and growth, and the immune system.
2006
Vacuous Virtuoso › WP Plugin: Gregarious
by plasticdreams
Generates dynamic Digg It button, Reddit button, and / or Share This link without touching a single line of code.
The Breadboard Band
by ainos
& 1 other
The Breadboard Band is a performing band that uses breadboards made of freely constructed electronic circuits to play music. We produce audio and visual expression through the most minimal, fundamental elements in the form of showing the electronic components of an instrument while directly touching and forming the electronic circuit by hand. The electric signals released from hand-made electronic circuits releases extremely rough and ferocious wave patterns. This performance is based on improvisational interplay, and we pull powerful music into shape through each member's operation, while discovering new sounds by hand.
Apache Geronimo and the Spring Framework, Part 3
by BlueVoodoo
Extend the Apache Geronimo application you created in Part 2 of this six-part tutorial series. In this installment, you'll learn how to let the integrated technologies -- like Spring Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Spring Data Access Objects (DAO) APIs -- do the work by reading your application data dynamically from an Apache Derby database. You'll also find out how to integrate Object Relational Mapping (ORM) into your application using iBATIS and appreciate the beauty of dependency injection by modifying the data sources in your application without touching the code.
Scareface: The world is yours
by joe_buck_1969
& 4 others
The Scarface video game will create a gameplay environment that authentically recreates the historical time period of the film, touching on politics, news items and events of the day. Players will travel through the steamy, often violent streets of Miami, the irie islands of the Florida Ke
Emily : Still Life : Run : vid
by Olivia
A Still Life vid! And it's very good. As much as the execution of Still Life sucked baboon butt, I loved the story, have a fierce kind of love for it. So YAY. Touching. I may have cried, just a little.
tabaqui : Spn : Brightness Falls from the Air : fic
by Olivia
Very good Devil's Trap-based story. Touching. BabyWinchesters. Excellent John.
ignipes : Spn : Candles and Cake : fic
by Olivia
Wonderful gen piece. Sam and birthdays. Well-written. Good Sam voice. Touching and sentimental, without being maudlin.
