http://blog.nonlinear.cc my blog is my garden Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en .Lazy Eight for 2010! by Betatester..Thanks, Rudy Rucker! http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/lazy-eight-for-2010/ Big questions 11 & 12.Big questions 11 & 12 by Betatester..From Brooklyn comics festival. Mostly silent, birds trying to mourn their dead. And giant swans. And and an air pilot. And a monk. But the birds are the main characters. . drawnandquarterly.com . Whiskey jack & kid coyote meet the king of stink.Whiskey jack & kid coyote ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/brooklyn-comics-festival/ .this one will be SO COOL to color by Betatester..I spent all week designing this character... then I meet a guy eerly similar to him. kinda creepy. now I wanna know the guy better. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/this-one-will-be-so-cool-to-color/ .dressed up by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/dressed-up-illo/ . manga studio EX yummy tones palette. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/yummy-tone/ .warning illo by Betatester. . I feel terrible right now. everything I do looks phony or pretentious. . that's the act of creation, heh? bipolar for art, that's me. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/warning-illo/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/change-of-heart-illo/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/comic-for-october-25-2009/ ixedit is an in-browser interaction editor that provides a succint code at the end, making it a better alternative than the jquery plugin forest out there. check below for a must-watch video tutorial. . I've been using ixedit on my projects, and it's a godsend. Since much of internet community is still ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/improving-ixedit/ .sis, me, mom @ the garden by Betatester..from my mom flickr account: http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/sis-me-mom-a-garden/ How much can my bear bank hold?.How much can my bear bank hold? by Betatester. . Almost $300!.Almost $300! by Betatester. . update: pleasure and pain blog comments on TD bank penny arcade machine http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/my-bear-bank/ my older brother is living in rio, so decided to finally digitize our family photographs. we have a box full of it. . . the entire set is here. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/family-pics/ drawn using posemaniac's random pose iphone app . .random poses by Betatester. . . song is stereolab's ping pong. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/random-poses/ . the song is New York New York (Radio Slave's Not Long Now Remix) by Moby. you can download it here . . . http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/toughen-up/ Copyright, as the name implies, grants content owner the right of copy. . In the digital realm, to move a file is to copy it somewhere else and then delete the original. in our digital era every movement is a copy, and it's insane (and anti-democratic) to expect permission for each and ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/copyright-is-dead-long-live-trackright/ sorry, in good old brazilian portuguese, this one about a mimimi post of a guy that was damn rude to me on twitter. . neguinho fica velho, e compara a situacao mundial com a situação da sua aging spine. velhos fazem isso. até os grandes pensadores franceses, fazer o que. . as regras não ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/critica/ boing boing talks about what happens with second chances when computers don't forget. . I've been thinking bout it for quite some time: if computers dont forget, how can society move on? . I imagine some cultures will become a class society, a faux democracy with some selected few picked in the infancy ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/personal-transformations-in-the-internet-age/ . the song is nathan fake, the sky was pink. you can download it here. . .are you for real? (complete image) by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/are-you-for-real/ .don't mind me, plz. by Betatester...nerdish. #drawing by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/dont-mind-me-plz/ install isquint install metax open isquint, drag all the movies to the list choose optimize for tv choose H.264 encoding hit run (or play, or whatever). go take a walk, it takes a while. one it's all ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/converting-animes-for-itunes-using-mac/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/uniqlo-calendar/ . Mother's day @ water taxi by Betatester. . . Hottie latino by Betatester. . . This one I'm so gonna color by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/2-illustrations-and-one-photo/ Ativiti is the startup I've been working on for like a year with some friends. It will finally go closed beta in like 2 weeks..Since I had to keep my mouth shut for a while and I'm so proud of this project, I'm coming back with a vengeance:.Ativiti is our take on social ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/ativiti-closed-beta/ bookmarklets are smart links: instead of pointing to pages, it runs simple scripts. Used wisely, it's a huge timesaver. . to use it, simply drag the titles to your bookmarks bar. EMAILComposes an email with the info of the page you're currently browsing: subject is the page title, body is page title + ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/best-bookmarklets-roundup/ some 3dme tests... It's still not stereo, but I'm learning. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/3d-transportation-series/ . my tentative 3D picture, using 3D me app http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/my-workspace/ You can either click on each link to subscribe, visit the site or download the complete OPML file and drag it to iTunes to subscribe to all. you can delete later the ones you don't care about. . Enjoy! Music Cut&Mistake | site BitBang! | site deepbeep ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/podcasts-i-watch-or-listen-to/ .Winter happy (I have a scanner now, no excuses) by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/winter-happy-i-have-a-scanner-now-no-excuses/ Stopdesign asks if it's time to move beyond 960. Hardware suppliers assumed market would want higher resolutions, but in reality final users don't go beyond 1080x960 px like power users - developers, video producers - do. . I wrote this answer originally on my google shared items, but I'm reposting here since ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/time-to-move-beyond-960/ I've been using dropbox to share files with friends. it's free version has a 2GB cap. Since I'm a mobileme subscriber, and I had 10GB to use, I tried to use it instead. Sadly I can't share that space with groups. .I refuse to pay another fee for cloud space, ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/pogoplug/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/easter-party/ twenty-one jquery & CSS effects I like. Enjoy. Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail jQuery Inline Confirm 8 Ajax Data Controls and Effects to Work with Tables jQuery plugin: ‘autoResize’ DataTables: highly flexible data table component jQuery-gestures Animated Ajax Record Deletion Using jQuery Example Moving Boxes 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI IE Fix: Bicubic Scaling for ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/tech-toolbox-3/ from MajorActs.com people. Click here for the facebook invitation. . http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/another-major-acts-party-heh/ The Renaissance legacy: The Vanishing Point = Self-Effacement, The Detached Observer. No Involvement! . The viewer of Renaissance art is systematically placed outside the frame of experience. A piazza for everything and everything in its piazza. The instantaneous world of electric informational media involves all of us, all at once. No detachment or frame is ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/the-renaissance-legacy/ I promised myself to fill this notebook with drawings in a month. I'm way behind my goal, but ah. . . . . http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/from-my-sketchbook-3/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/testing-new-issuu-embed/ from MajorActs.com people. Click here for the facebook invitation. . . I can't wait to listen to more electro, my DJ friends are getting too house-y and I want anger. Adam to the rescue, heh? . I wish I had a higher resolution picture http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/major-acts-apt-this-thursday/ Following Tech ToolBox: more jquery & CSS effects I like. . thanks @elijahmanor & ajaxrain for most of the tips. Accessible News Slider Fade Out Bottom Fix My HTML Web Development Project Estimator JQuery Drop-Down Combo Box How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery (tutorial) Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery jQuery Editable Plugin jQuery ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/tech-toolbox-2/ . http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/from-my-sketchbook-2/ purging. consolidating. getting rid of legacy code. claiming space. pressin' on. optimizing. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/soul-spring-cleaning-can-you-hear-it/ I'm in a drawing frenzy lately, and the initial idea was to share each moment on twitter, but somehow twitpic is coughing and I was keeping it all to myself. . so I reuploaded it to flickr, and posted it here instead. . . ..... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/from-my-sketchbook/ I'm wondering of a cool crowdsourcing proofreading solution. Thing is, I detect typos fast, but usually I can't warn the blog author of it. domains grant permissions to certain users (users may apply) selected users add the plugin & flag whatever typo domain owner can ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/crowdsourced-typo-detection/ .new hairdo. 34yo in 5 days. by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/new-hairdo-34yo-in-5-days/ rowmote is a $0.99 iphone app that emulates apple remote. that's it. no screen feedback, just data input. I sent an email with ideas for the developer. . even loosing the tactile feedback of the actual remote (I have to look at the iphone screen), at least I can use it anywhere ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/rowmote-idea/ turns out this materialistic age wasn't about things at all, but obsession with symbols : if the thing doesn't match the idea, we toss it out, eager for another. . the idea of how things should be, of course, is carefully orchestrated by a media cabal of body hatred. . the new materialism: ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/a-new-materialism/ .Testing QuadCamera by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/testing-quadcamera/ I'm moving my podcast subscriptions from my macbook air to my modbook, so below I listed all podcast I listen/watch. Some guidelines/clarifications: It's all free (it should go without saying, but some people don't get it yet, so again: All podcasts are free) If not noted, it's an iTunes link If there's no ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/music/podcasts-i-subscribe-to/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/business-card-20/ I tuck all cool effects I find under a TOOLS bookmark folder... Below is my updated collection. It's heavily slanted towards jquery effects, but you can find CSS tricks & other graphic design tools. Word HTML cleaner - A tool to strip Microsoft’s proprietary tags and other superfluous noise from Word-generated ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/tech-toolbox/ .nicholas by criminal...bichona by criminal...bichona 2 by criminal...eliane by criminal.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/more-nye-party-pics/ .in brazil we call it reveillon by Betatester. map here. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/new-years-eve/ slideshow here. . .matthew dear by Betatester...me, julio & jeff by Betatester...masayo & natsuki by Betatester...thabata & isabelle by Betatester...a lot of ppl again by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/holiday-party-pics/ Maybe you're not into anime: I can't blame you ,there's a lot of crap out here. But there are gems too: Amazing stories like the ones I list here. Chevalier d'Eon wikipedia | netflix | another review | watch trailer . Eureka Seven wikipedia | netflix | watch first episode . Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo wikipedia ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/10-best-animes-of-2008/ this was a google reader note but I decided it was too good so I reposted. 1 Internet is a two-way, dialog media. marketers insist in one-way, monolog discourse because they want control. It won't fly. 2 Information consumes attention: the more information we have, the less attention to share. Interruption is the new ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/a-message-to-marketers/ my email to seamlessweb.com: We use seamlessweb for our weekly meetings, and we usually decide which one will pay the bill and keep a tab of who owes whom. We all have seamless web accounts, and we rotate. . Is it possible to create a social feature on seamlessweb? We can separate the ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/comment-about-my-seamlessweb/ Your secret name is Lauren. The animal which symbolizes you is giraffe. The color of your soul is seafoam green. The celebrity you most resemble is John Lennon. Your special pain or illness is malaria. Your most important time of day is 4:00. The shape of your life is pentagon. And the flavor which identifies you most ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/the-dada-server/ Apple as the GatekeeperYes, we all heard the arguments: On one hand, cellphones are critical devices and users can't afford delays caused by bad code, so a gatekeeper is required. On the other hand, Apple can be as capricious as it wants - refusing applications out of whim, allowing big ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/interface/what-apple-can-offer-to-iphone-developers/ I'm the hunter I bring back the goods but I don't know when Bjork - Hunter . With feed subscriptions turning blogs into push media, blog authors don't need to keep on writing all the time to be relevant. Instead, niche blogs can afford to ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/celebrating-niche-blogs/ Instapaper - free & pro The Good: like the web counterpart, you save pages you wanna read for later.. The Bad: the UI is weird... Don't get me wrong, it's ok, but the webversion is so ridiculously simple (clicking a link means you read it) so why complicate?. ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/best-iphone-apps/ I have 2 open projects I wanna move forward, and I need some running mates to motivate me. . My idea is to have a weekly virtual meeting to discuss problems, solutions, progress, and what's going on on the web. . Treat it as a poker night: it's sacred time. We're already pretty busy, ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/running-partners-vlog-idea/ .testing macbook air photobooth by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/testing-macbook-air-photobooth/ sorry, in portuguese... I emailed that to bruna paixão & she blogged about it. . um pouco antes de viajar pra NY, eu tive um desses sonhos-revelacao em que conversava com krishna (que atendia tables de varios customers, us, e tava pretty busy). . ele falou que sim, a realidade eh feita de nossos ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/krshna-dream/ below are my thoughts on AMP's taxi.com.br idea.... It can become a mix of vans (as in more than one passenger) and cabs (passenger defines point A and B), using networks to calculate the most optimal source. After all, fixed stops & fixed schedules were needed before the age of constant ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/paratransit-idea/ Store Agent proposal http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/store-agent-proposal/ .my loft bed plan by Betatester..No, I'm not a queen, it's the futon size. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/my-loft-bed-plan/ .venusian high by Betatester...scared preppy boy by Betatester...smart by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/venusian-high/ Animes to get Sos! Tokyo metro explorers: The Next Freedom 2, 3 Tokyo Majin Nerima Daikon Brothers Mega Zone 23 Panda-z: The Robonimation Kite Liberator Speed Grapher Simoun My-Otome ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/japanese-fix/ .macro nick, mini fil by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/macro-nick-mini-fil/ .mondrian me by Betatester...me, some loft rooftop by Betatester...55555555555555555 by Betatester...Huey, Dewey, Louie by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/mondrian-me/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/my-reading-trends/ .loft plan, sweet! by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/loft-plan/ .me @ the annex by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/me-the-annex/ . screencast of clearbits quickview, the music is sigue sigue sputnik's barbarandroid http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/clearbits/ .greg & me by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/greg-me/ .Whores! by Betatester...Dave by Betatester...Super Combo by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/whores/ Cool - if useless - scripts I collected and used over the years. Because it's useless to have socks if you can't find it. Barrack Slideshow Cash Register Featured Content Slider Ajax Slideshow Javascript Crossfader Ajax Demos, Editor Ajax Demos, FishEye FlickrMenu Styled Form Controls FreeStyle Menus JQuery Accordion JQuery ToolTip mcDropdown jQuery Plug-in LightBox JS JQuery News Ticker Live Thumbnail Magazine Layout Mollio Templates S5 Slideshow Slideshow Table Sorting Revolver Fast ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/scripts-collection/ If a service is free and not open source, that means you are the product - in, sold to others - and not the consumer. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/the-caveat-of-free/ If you organize your wardrobe in order to know at a glance where each outfit is but happens to have low self-steeem, you'll spend as much time getting ready as if you had a disorganized one. . companies are now all digital. but we spend all the free time gained baby-sitting clients ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/the-wardrobe-paradox/ Now that the company I worked went kaput, I need to find a coworking space to get together. . Both my current roommates don't have a steady job, so working from home is not an option: you either socialize or get silent, guilty. . I'm checking out thechangeyouwanttosee.org space now... BTW, posting from ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/territorial-me/ Definition According to wikipedia, a darknet is "a private virtual network where users connect only to people they trust. In its most general meaning, a darknet can be any type of closed, private group of people communicating, but the name is most often used specifically for file sharing networks." . Tools a password-protected remote ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/self-cleaning-darknet-proposal/ .undecided by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/undecided/ .jackie by Betatester. . .3 minutes by Betatester. . .boots by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/jackie/ . more here http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/uncropped-album-covers/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/myoffice-redesign-layout/ .god bless camera timer by Betatester..feeling stylish in a shitty day. fucking sitcom of my life. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/god-bless-camera-timer/ .You can't relate by Betatester...Ass, be loaded. by Betatester...Hungry by Betatester...Yakub lifestyle is the new colonics. by Betatester.. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/you-cant-relate/ .stochastic differential by Betatester..yesterday i ran an anime marathon, watching the last 5 episodes of ghost hound, an anime about syncronicities, OBE, spirits and stem-cell research, among others. And activation of the pineal gland. . sadly, the last episode - "stochastic resonance" - i had only in japanese original, so I couldn't ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/stochastic-differential/ .shy hipster by Betatester. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/shy-hipster/ .father instinct by Betatester..from twitter.com/jcgurgel/statuses/792096714 http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/father-instinct/ .I have a bad feeling about this... by Betatester..i decided to pick funny twitter statutes as inspiration. this one is from crisdias http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/i-have-a-bad-feeling-about-this/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/testing-seesmic/ now that the SDK rules are out, and any system improvement is out of the question, I'm thinking on partnering with an iphone developer for a jailbroken app. . it should work this way:click and hold home button opens camera app.overrides password protection respects current UI guidelines release home button shoots picture. ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/iphone-camera-improvement/ .wary sun bathing by Betatester..i got it. art rage has more organic tools, tho sketchbook pro interface wins hands down. sbp, this one. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/wary-sun-bathing/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/abstinence-driving/ tho the either/or attitude miffed me. if i could upload my counsiousness, i'd rather duplicate me then replace me althogether. imagine, the talks with my digital twin 10 years from now. precious! . You Score as a Transhumanist-Biotech Transhumanists believe that humanity can and should strive to attain higher ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/im-a-transhumanist/ .subway by Betatester..art rage 2, now. better photoshop integration. tho i still prefer alias sketchbook pro for drawing. color, photoshop wins hands down. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/subway/ .duende by Betatester..first try on modbook... conflicts with spaces, but other than that it's alright. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/duende/ .good morning, photo booth by Betatester..the hair is still growing. http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/good-morning-photo-booth/ cosmopod is a safari plugin that adds a lil icon on top of the browser window that highlights when detects a flash video on the page. You can then click to convert to itunes. . I emailed the cocoamug guys some ideas to make it even leaner. Hi, first of all I'm a ... http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/enjoy-youtube-videos-without-losing-focus/ http://blog.nonlinear.cc/post/lost-in-emoticons/