This is the type of chart only a true geek could make.

Over the last couple years, we saw some pretty amazing things when users started hacking up their own firmware options for the popular Linksys WRT54G. Free versions such as DD-WRT offered great bandwidth controls, netflow, radius support and many features that would normally require a much more expensive AP/Router to support.

Now some people are taking that same concept and applying it to the popular Canon PowerShot camera line with CHDK.

It’s kind of interesting how the markets for different devices are artificially restricted.

Social Wallpapering is a public effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as desktop backgrounds. Supported resolutions include 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, and all other background variations with a minimum width and height of 1280×720 pixels.

Socwall employs several technologies to function, such as cascading style sheets (CSS), asynchronous javascript and XML (AJAX) requests, an open source relational database management system (MySQL), and a server-side cross-platform HTML embedded scripting language (PHP). The idea for Socwall originated in March 2006 by Kirk Ouimet, who is the founder and maintainer of the web site.

The design of Socwall was inspired by the great potential of community-based interactive websites, which are commonly referred to as Web 2.0 websites. The author of this site was particularly influenced by Kevin Rose’s excellent digg.com.

Social Wallpapering is an attempt to create the greatest high-resolution wallpaper resource on the planet.

Social Wallpapering

So, I snagged one of the cool LED pegboard sign kits from Evil Mad Scientist. The kit’s extremely cleanly and clearly designed and documented, it went together in about a half hour - minus the LEDs, which took me another hour or two. It’s pretty cool, I turned mine into a Valentine’s Day present -which seems to be the trend, now that I went to their website - altho it wasn’t my original plan.

My heart’s a little misshapen - and it might look cooler if I filled it in, haven’t really decided yet. Fun project tho, I recommend it.

the monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons.

buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems to monitor and trigger sample playback positions, stream 1-bit video, interact with dynamic physical models, and play games. button press and visual indication are decoupled by design: the correlation is established by each application.

Documentary on a Clockwork Orange on GoogleVideo

This is an incredible movie, and it’s sad that it’s basically not shown or recognized anywhere. Searching “Off the Rails” won’t show this film until the second page, and it’s an amazing piece of work.

14 Months, 10,000km, Moscow to Beijing by Pedal power.
A 52 minute film. Winner of the Grants Film Festival 2002 (Austria).

“Waist deep in a melting pool of snow, feet slipping on the icy bottom, the bikes sinking further, we pushed on. Around us the mist lowered as darkness descended upon the Taiga forest. “No, go back, its pointless!” Villagers had cried seeing us ride by. We were coming to realise the wisdom of their words. The road had become a series of swimming-pool size puddles that were growing as the two metres of snow continued to melt. Ahead, five, ten, twenty kilometres of pushing, trudging? We didn’t know…”

It was March, the beginning of Spring in the northwest corner of Russia. Struggling to make 6km a day, Tim Cope & Chris Hatherly, both 20 year-old Australians had embarked on an epic journey across Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and Northern China, finishing in Tiananmen square, Bejing.

This film, shot and narrated by Tim Cope & Chris Hatherly will take you into the minds of the adventurers, the contrasting landscapes of the Gobi desert and Siberia, and the homes of hundreds of local people. It documents their extraordinary adventure across a continent to Beijing and accompanies their book about the same journey.

Tim Cope Journeys: Off the Rails - DVD

Beginner How Tos

For anyone familiar with the work of Steven Hirsch, these pictures seem to be a radical departure from his style. At first glance.Technically flawless, quiet, without movement, uniform, they look to be documents of every day American life, with school lunches, baseball practice, bills and family.But not quite. They are too still, too ordinary. White aluminum siding, candy blue skies, trees with bark and branches in stark focus. A sign to “Support Our Troops”, tucked in near the fence on the ground, a school bus parked out in front. The windows are dull, hung with blinds or curtains, without a story.Ordinary.When our eyes drop down to the titles of the photos, we may recognize one or the other name of a sex offender from the headline news.Herein lies the link to other work of Steven Hirsch: the frame is slightly shifted, the twist of reality, eerie, unpredictable. Stirring up human ‘Angst’ and paranoia. The endless loneliness of strangers walking on New York streets is replicated in the faceless ordinariness of indistinguishable houses, some of which may have witnessed unspeakable horror and pain.

Love Thy Neighbor