Archive for March, 2004

Vulpine Lady (here I come)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Vulpine is word of the day.

1 : of, relating to, or resembling a fox

*2 : foxy, crafty

Of, relating to, or resembling a fox. We need a Danish word for this. Rævet? no. Apart from “Mikkel Ræv” (Michael (the) Fox), Vulpes vulpes is listed as a synonym. And that goes hand in hand with the attached Latin background fact

Did you know?

In Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau described foxes crying out “raggedly and demoniacally” as they hunted through the winter forest, and he wrote, “Sometimes one came near to my window, attracted by my light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.” Thoreau’s was far from the first use of “vulpine”; English writers have been applying that adjective to the foxlike or crafty since the 15th century. Its Latin parent is the adjective “vulpinus,” which itself comes from the noun “vulpes,” meaning “fox.”

Foxy lady

Word of the day at Merriam-Webster

38 eksempler på forkert brug af ‘rævet’

Ræv

Vulpes.org – your one stop shop for information of foxes

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Børn raserer net-boghandel

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

På en helt almindelig torsdag kan man godt surfe forbi Gad uden at forvente nogen overraskelse. Men i dag er den lille netboghandel helt anderledes.

- Vi har fjernet det meste fedtkridt og fingermaling, men, som du selv kan se, er der stadig spor af poders hærgen

Falsk og uopfindsomt citat

- Vi ser ingen problemer i at børne-dankortet betyder øget netsalg

Ingen

- Pludselig var garagen fyldt med Totte-bøger. Vi mistænkte ikke Oskar, vores søn, i første omgang. Han er jo lige flyttet hjemmefra fordi han skal på pension.

Løgnagtig og ligegyldig udtalelse


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Do you dream Tetris blocks, too?

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
How and when people see pieces from the computer game in their sleep tells of the role dreaming plays in learning

SA: Tetris Dreams
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Mobile phone number as SSID?

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Mr. Pollas had an experience at one of my neighbourhood cafés

This is where the good thing happens. I check for other APs and find one, ingeniously named as a cellphone number. A text message and two minutes later things are starting to look better. This is roughly how the conversation went:

Me: “Hi, I’m stuck at Eugene with wifi-trouble. Can I borrow your connection? Best regards /Anders – pollas.dk”

AP-guy: “I’m just returning home, I’m there in 5 minutes if you’re still there”

Me: “Sounds perfect!”

AP-guy: “I’ll be there in two, I’ll be the guy in the white jacket with a computer store carrier bag”.

Friendly guy comes in, remembers his AP actually is open already and gives me the WEP-key. He’s blocking access tomorrow anyway, which is why I dare to post this bit – I hope it’s ok. Information and access want to be free, but AP owners are to be respected.

AP owners are to be respected. So if you find my number at another Vesterbro cafe, text me, and I’ll let you in. You might even sample my cd collection. (Coin laundry AP owner next to Märkbar, this is where you come in).

Pollas: Cph Wifi – the good and the bad

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Beskedent

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Tekstforfatning er ikke på listen.
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(Waiting for) the Looking Glass

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Sun’s 3d desktop experiments finally turned into a viewable demo – with Jobsesque applause from the audience. But do we want to wait for the transitions on our desktop screen?
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Crazy fun with Illustrator CS (‘C’ is for ‘Crazy’, ‘S’ is for ‘Feces’)

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

You can create instant madness with your Illustrator artwork – in seconds! Join me in this joyride of crazy Illustrator fun!

See the above image? It’s a screenshot from Illustrator! See the crazy waves? It’s a new, built-in feature that you can use right now!

  • Zoom out to a 25% view
  • Press and hold your crazy space bar
  • Now drag the artwork beyond the window’s limits
  • This is the tough, but crazy part: Zig-zag up’n down (so far out crazy, this!) while you drag your artwork back into drawing space
  • Keep both left mouse button and your crazy spacebar pressed
  • Admire the craziness!

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Design coincidence

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Dantek library systems (Sample)

Speednames

(Key: Coincidences)

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Doing the date

Monday, March 22nd, 2004
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week Sarah Hepola comes to the aid of a confused, heartbroken Romeo with a story of her someone else’s troubles in dating.

The Morning News: The Non-Expert: Doing The Date

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Comfortable Transcribing – or How to Get that R2D2 Interview you Always Hoped for

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

“I just got a giant storage hall – for free!”

Exactly those words came out of a good friend’s mouth a few months ago. I had to tell him that I had never, not once in my life, heard that sentence before. He told me that he was not surprised. He also told me that he never got the storage hall.

That is very much far from the deaply loathed task of transcribing hours of interview tapes. Why so hated?

  • Stopping the tape to catch up typing
  • Back-skipping to copy virbatim
  • It’s boring
  • It’s just so boring

So after transcribing for an hour or so, I went hunting and came back with a nice, little freeware application that not only lets you use a pedal (I still have to figure out how to use my Crybaby on this one, but I’ll make it, I’m sure I will), skip back with a customisable shortcut key combination – but, and this is where you have to pay attention even though you might be broke and your bank advisor says overdraft every time he finishes a sentence) – the audio stretcher makes any imaginable interview source sound – and feel – like R2D2.

Express scribe Free transcribing software

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Baconizer connects Spears to Nielsen, Relate-a-zon has a spring mission

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

My bad. Of course it does.

Reading the Relate-a-zon description made me feel hungry.

I, too, thought that this was a literal translation, with the umlauts and slashes left out, of a type of open-faced sandwich made with multi-hued cheese and raw potato, but it turns out to be an addictive game where you need to find your way from one item that Amazon.com sells, to another.

Baconizer applications

The NEW Relate-a-zon missionAnd, the moment we’ve all been hoping, longing and waiting for: Spring. As in Relate-a-zon, the Spring Mission: Navigate the political minefield as well as the four seasons: Start out by cleaning house. End up cleaning up the goverment.

As one would expect, Baconizer has a solution, but, as of right now, the Bryson book on hop 2 is missing in the real-time Amazon data.
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The old tape deck returns – in your pocket

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

There I was. A weird, waiting teenager, the index finger on the red record button, middle finger on the green play button. Waiting for the speaker to shut the dang up and let the music flow, waiting for the song to end. The result was a loaded Maxell 90 Gold Ultra Max Tech Hyper with that scientific covering that eliminated noise in a new, unprecedented way. And if you’re not convinced yet, look at the charts on the back.

Those days are back. Sort of.

Radio YourWay Digital AM/FM Radio Recorder

Records up to four hours of radio.

But look, somebody’s already done that

NPR: Audio archive

Archived radio shows since 1996

DR on-demand archive

Arkiv, altså. It’s in Danish, det her.

Open Radio Archive Network Group

They got hacked and need your money to restore the 40 days of radio archives collected over six years.

The CBC Archive

Including the That was Then Archive: 9-11 tv broadcast, Celebration of the phone’s 100th year anniversary, March 3, 1947, introduction of the Mobile Phone, 1947, and the breaking TV news claiming that TV-like machines replace secretaries, 1978.

BBC Radio On Demand

Including back-issues of the Steve Lamacq show: on the brink of being signed, your new favorite bands.

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Baconizer cannot connect Spears to Nielsen

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Jasper could, Brian, Thomas, Classy and Esben could.

The Amazing Baconizer is now using the Amazon API. As noted by Nyholm, it’s the ultimate way of cheating in a game of Relate-a-zon.

Relate-a-zon

The Amazing Baconizer

Classy: Relate-a-zon featured in NYT

This to that – how to glue things (via)

(If we can match Britney and Jakob, we can match anyone. Expect the Final Dating Site)
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It feeds the poor and helps clean the streets and rivers

Monday, March 15th, 2004

One big chew for a little product that sells for a little over a Euro. Nonetheless it’s what it does. The headline forgot to mention that it brings home your grocery products. The product is … a plastic bag. Silly season on the brown webpage? Ask Ms. Wizer, I say.

“Trash is my art medium,” Wizer says during a break at her spacious studio in South Jakarta, which is decorated with a mannequin clad in a tea-bag suit and where guests sit on stylish arm chairs stuffed with shredded, plastic-coated paper.

Indonesian weirdo or top-modern trendsetter?

ABCNews: Trendy Plastic Bags Are Made From Trash

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Early morning mail dilemma

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Returning to the office in an early morning, nothing confuses me more than a corporate IT dept mail that I am unable to decode.

IF YOU RECEIVE “FUNNY” MAILS FROM FRIENDS AND/OR FAMILY, PLEASE SAVE THEM TO YOUR DESKTOP AND DELETE THEM AT ONCE.

a) Why do you spam me, then ask me to delete your mail?

b) What’s the point in saving, then deleting? Some cool trick with the Recycle Bin?

I need coffee.
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