Podcast #10 – July 2007 (aka “June: Part Two – Eclectic Boogie-Lewd”)

Posted On Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 By Zen Render

Well, it happened again. We hung out for about 3 hours and ended up making show that’s about an hour and a half long. Hoo-boy do we like to hear ourselves talk. If you listen very closely though, there’s ALSO some music in there… Click HERE to start listening, or download it with your favourite podcast/rss download thingie. Oh, and you might wanna throw on some headphones, ’cause both the lyrics and the hosts resort to some swearing from time to time. Talkybit 1 Can U Dig It – Pop Will Eat Itself Protection (Breaks Mix) – Massive Attack Yin And Yang (The Flowerpot Man) – Love And Rockets Talkybit 2 I Turn My Camera On – Spoon (and the video we’re talking about is here) Fed Up And Low Down* – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion City Of Angels – The Distillers Talkybit 3 We Share Our Mother’s Health – The Knife Music Selector In The Soul Reflector – Deee-Lite Das Spiegel – Chemical Brothers Talkybit 4 Can U Keep A Secret – De La Soul Read A Book* – Bomani “D’Mite” Armah Watch Ya Mouth* – Busta Rhymes Talkybit 5 Such Great Heights – The Postal Service Legs – Continue Reading

Caitlin Really REALLY wants to join the “John Burton League” on Facebook.

Posted On Sunday, July 8th, 2007 By Zen Render

I’m the administrator (and one-seventh of the membership) of the John Burton League on Facebook.  The only rule (and single requirement) is that all members be named John Burton.   Caitlin wanted to join, ’cause that’s how she rolls, and I rejected her, and here’s what happens: Allow me to plead my case: Raised in the swinging 60’s by a pack of wild dingoes in the remote northwest of Queensland, I learnt early on the importance of self-sufficiency and also that, really, dingoes don’t taste THAT bad. It was some point in my early teens that I noticed I was ‘different’. Firstly, I had a distinct lack of fur. Secondly, I felt quite comfortable spending long periods of time on my hind legs. Thirdly, I possessed what can now only be described as an ‘amoebic’ quality. And alas I can only describe it as such because my vocabulary is distinctly (some might even say devastatingly) lacking. Please, a few moments more – I shall expound. This characteristic seemed unique to me. It was difficult to explain even to our family’s patriarch and my mentor, Papa Dingo. The poor fellow was mono-syllabic at best. His only real conversational pieces involved the prospect Continue Reading

links for 2007-07-07

Posted On Saturday, July 7th, 2007 By Zen Render

How to set RSS feeds as your desktop – Download Squad (tags: web feed windows) WikiMindMap (tags: mindmap wiki wikipedia visualization tools search reference) Kaķēni. Daudz… You know those “Every time you …. God kills a kitten” posters, including the ones with the DomoKuns and everything? These are the source photos. Some are quite beautiful, even if you do find yourself thinking “Needs more Domokun.” (tags: cats photography meme) Yosuke Ueno (tags: art painting japan gallery strange) mini-itx.com – news Freakishly small motherboard. (tags: hardware computers pc diy)

links for 2007-07-06

Posted On Friday, July 6th, 2007 By Zen Render

Beatbots Keepon (tags: music robot dancing technology dance video) ProgrammableWeb – Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform (tags: web2.0 mashup api ajax programming) Flickr Leech (tags: flickr photography photos tools photo search pictures)

Keepon Keepin’ On.

Posted On Friday, July 6th, 2007 By Zen Render

I want one of these little robots really badly, BUT, I can also see how they’d be used for their intended purpose, so it also cool in a more geeky kinda way. Happenin’ little tune by Spoons, too. From the site: We are currently developing and studying dance-oriented nonverbal play with between children and the robot Keepon, designed and built by Hideki Kozima. Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.

links for 2007-07-05

Posted On Thursday, July 5th, 2007 By Zen Render

Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources (tags: podcasting podcast tools audio Web2.0 media) Neowin.net – CodecInstaller 2.5.5 (tags: freeware codec windows)

links for 2007-07-04

Posted On Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 By Zen Render

Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (tags: vancouver maps cycling) Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system (tags: Linux virtualization software windows tutorial) Cider House » VirtualBox OSE (tags: OSX software virtualization) Cider House » LaunchBox (tags: osx windows software virtualization freeware)

links for 2007-07-03

Posted On Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 By Zen Render

YouTube – Push Button Objects – Shadow, Numark, Cut Chemist [Live LA] (tags: music dj video hardware) Baynhamtyers’ New The Way Things Go (tags: video)