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Real or Fake?
It’s getting harder to tell. Be sure to watch it in fullscreen:
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14 Errors in anti-Light Rail thinking
I’m part of a group called Hamilton Light Rail which has been pushing for the development of a european-style light rail (aka Tram) in Hamilton. Recently the Hamilton newspaper The Spectator published an anti-LRT rant by a businessman who owns, among other things, a car wash. His opinion piece is so full of factual errors that I couldn’t resist making a list. I actually found 14 factual errors (that is errors that require no argument, simply a correction of information from easy to access sources). So, without further adieu (sic) here it is:
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Reise Zum Mars film
Mucho thanks to The Cartoonist for discovering this lovely Steampunk film “Reise Zum Mars” (journey to mars, in german). Made by german film student Sebastian Binder, along with Fabien Grodde and Alexander Schumann, it’s a short film based on a draft screenplay by Walter Dexel, an early 20th Century Constructivist. But don’t worry, it’s just music and action, so there’s no need to know any german to watch it. And what’s more, the lyrics to the song are in english anyway.
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Mobile phones access agricultural market price information in developing nations
The most critical piece of information for any farmer is what to grow. What grains are going for good prices at the market. What is overproduced and what is underproduced. What is in demand. Farmers must know this information in order to make a living, hopefully a profit.
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A little ToneMatrix Music
André Michelle, inspired by the TENORI-ON, created a grid-sequencer called ToneMatrix. It’s an interactive experience written in Flash 10 that merges graphics, visualization, interactivity, and music. There are also iPhone knock-offs such as the free TonePad. As for ToneMatrix, click here to check it out and create your own tunes. Here’s one of mine.
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How to prepare a build for distribution in the App Store using the Program Portal, XCode, and iTunes Connect
Apple does a pretty good job of explaining how to prepare the meta-data for an app submission in iTunes Connect, but it’s not completely obvious how to prepare your actual build in XCode.
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something I found written on a piece of paper
I don’t know what it means.
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What happens when you don't understand open source licenses?
I was just checking out a TextMate-like editor for Windows called E Text Editor. It looks pretty good, but I was a bit surprised when I read about his “Open Company License”.
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My university can't draw.
This is their idea of a good new logo.
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Maemo is coming
So according to what everybody is saying, Nokia is going to start using the Maemo operating system + SDK in their high-end smartphones. This is good news. Symbian is basically a smoking pile of junk. It’s too old, and too crap, to be fixed. Toss it out the window and good riddance.