I have no idea where this picture came from - I found it on an SD card that was in my Eee back last year as an extra drive - but before I use the SD card for something else I wanted to share it with the wirble-wirble-world.
It’s awesome.
Brilliant.
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Boobs would make me so much more popular
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Gemini Multi-Shot Animator: Make animated GIFs with your iPhone
I’m a big fan of QuadCamera for the iPhone, who in their last update notes indicated that they may be adding support for animated GIFs in future. But that support is here right now with the very similar Gemini Multi-Shot Animator.
This app takes 2, 4, 8 or 16 shots at specified shutter intervals (0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 seconds). You can then apply a variety of filters and export the results (either as a single image to the camera roll, or via email as an animated GIF. TwitPic is also supported).
You can specify all the important aspects of the GIF file (colour depth, dithering on or off) and choose from a variety of image sizes. It’s all rather well laid out. You can even import pictures back from the camera roll, making it possible to get creative with other apps. Perhaps you could use Brushes or something to make a finger painting animation?
It’s a paid app, about the price of two chocolate bars.
(I’m not sure how Posterous handles animated GIFs, so fingers crossed here!)
Geronimo! Adventures in Space and Type: Part 3
Another late night progress report for ‘my’ Doctor Who font. Mostly subtle tweaks, but these usually take the longest. There’s still a lot I’m not keen on, in Particular the V. Both Y’s are ugly, but I’m fairly happy with the current G and Q situation.
I’m open to constructive criticisms and suggestions at this point.
Lost bingo
The Lost Supper
The promo image for Lost’s final season shows the cast sat around a plane wing in the style of The Last Supper. Battlestar Galactica did exactly the same thing for it’s ultimate season, and fans analysed the picture looking for clues. I’m sure the same will happen here. This scene is oft parodied.
Amazing pictures from Alethea Everard
The Guardian's Zeitgeist
The Guardian has just launched Zeitgeist, a prototype index that displays visually what stories on the site are currently getting the most buzz. The blog post announcing it has some interesting explanations of the mechanics behind it:
To start with we wanted to look at how people use the site. A very blunt way to do this is page views, which has its place but isn’t that helpful in this context.
Instead we’re analysing and combining all sorts of things; where people come from, where they go to next, how long they stay on a particular page, if the page is getting passed round twitter and other social websites, number (and rate) of comments and so on.
They’ve done a smart think by keeping archive versions of these pages, not only because they could be interesting to browse in the future, but from an SEO perspective too.I think something similar to this would make for a far more compelling front page, instead of the mile long link-lists news sites seem to favour.
“Live in a box, shop in a box, die in a box. Robots, that’s what they want. Not people. Robots that consume. Straight lines – sharp angles – square boxes. No wonder the city’s gone mad.”
Geronimo! Adventures in Space and Type: Part 2
Progress report for day two of the ‘Geronimo!’ Doctor Who font experiment. Most of it is basically there, but I’m pretty unhappy with some of the details. Nothing like kerning has even been attempted here, this is literally just so I can see how the whole alphabet looks.
Now I need to work on how to make the difficult characters (B, G, Q, Y, V) work, and what, if anything, I can do to improve the bland characters (E, F, S, Z).
I still plan to do numbers and some of the more essential special characters(“, &, #, ~, @, +, - and parentheses).
Can somebody please explain this photo
The parrot used to be a US Marine, but now he teaches blind people how to defend themselves. He’s called Bobby. The gun is called Jess.
SeeSaw: Online TV service in beta
I just got my first look at SeeSaw, a new online TV service (using the defunct Project Kangaroo’s assets). It’s iPlayer basically, with a selection of UK shows, including many non-BBC. They seem to have a good selection, including some classic Doctor Who, which should keep me entertained for a while! It’s in beta, and I immediately had an issue with videos refusing to play, but this was fixed by making an exception to my AdBlock rules. (Well, foof actually, but it was causing the same problem). Speaking of advertisements, that is exactly how SeeSaw are making money out of this.
