zodiac screening

confessions of a pixel pusher media technology

There will be 2 screenings of ‘Zodiac’ on 2/18 in Los Angeles. The movie opens on March 2nd.
The flyer from Camera House who organizes the screening since they provided the camera and capture system. You will have to rsvp I believe. Angus, Wyatt and myself will be part of the panel discussion at 4pm.

nice multi touch interface

technology

just turn the crappy music off

This interface sure demoes well, but could also be used in real life from something.

osama does boston

misc

the real story

new tech

free of any reason history

good review

confessions of a pixel pusher misc

good review for Zodiac

The posters are all over LA. It is kind of weird, not having a credit. But I had enough time to get over that. More important is that it did work: All frames ended up where they should be. Which makes me very happy.

run obama run

politics

this could be the next President

And that would make America the great country that it can be.

guitar hero + Wii

economy media technology

Guitar hero is a very popular PS2 game. It seems that Activision wants to put in on the Wii.

Gaming consoles and game publishers always existed in this mutual interlock: Lots of consoles sold means lots of publish develop games. That’s the positive feedback loop. Then there is the negative one:
No games no sales for an ailing platform. There is no middle ground in this.

they should have called it ‘tubes’

internet technology

Poor yahoo. They have a great idea. Get great reviews, and then the darn thing breaks:


Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!

is all you see when you click on Yahoo’s pipe project

It does not really matter though: Now the idea is out. The idea is great. There will be 20 other implementations, and some of them will even be working. Should I add one? Nah, busy with other things. I think that ‘pipes’ is one of these things that everybody wants but then gets rarely used. I imagine that 80% of all mechanical tools get sold to the idea of “oh with this I could do that”, but then the urgent need to actually do “that” never arises.

It is kind of sad for Yahoo: The one moment they launch something that people actually care about and it breaks. Good engineering does matter. Even if it looks sometimes as if people could buy their way out of that. In the end they can not.

timeless

misc

then:
sigh

now:

command line airport application

Apple technology


/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport --help

beat’s counting bars.