Machines of Loving Grace Mar 19, 12, 4:29 p.m.

There’s a 3-part BBC documentary series from last year called “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Adam Curtis. I thought it was worth a look.

All three episodes are here along with some additional info: http://bit.ly/GzCvok

help finding video Feb 22, 12, 2 p.m.

I’m looking for this specific “brand affirmation” video that I saw a few years back—I think it was developed for either Time Magazine, or National Geographic, or some other publication that has a lot of history and makes use of frame in their visual makeup. (For example: Time's covers are always contained within a red border, while Nat Geo uses a yellow frame.)

I don’t think the video was a commercial, I think it was to be shown internally to rally the company together. Anyway, it had a strong visual similarity to the Eames’ “Powers of Ten” film—white frames retreating from the viewer into the depth of the screen. That was the main visual vehicle, and then there were some variations, like at one point when they make a reference to looking back through the company’s history the direction reverses and the frames come toward the viewer.

If that sounds familiar to you let me know!

Wikipedia Blackout Jan 18, 12, 1:47 a.m.

If you need to use english Wikipedia today you'll find it's "gone dark" to protest SOPA and PIPA. I wrote a little JavaScript snippet that unblocks the content so if you need Wikipieda today you can still use it. The explanation and bookmarklet is here:

http://stewd.io/b/2012/01/18/wik…

Print Magazine Oct 29, 11, 11:46 a.m.

Anyone feel strongly one way or the other about the October issue of Print Magazine? Do people still read magazines in the US? That whole industry seems to be gone here in the UK. (I exaggerate a bit, but you know what I mean.)
http://www.printmag.com/Article/…

Évariste Galois Oct 25, 11, 2:47 p.m.

French mathematician, genius, and angsty teen rebel Évariste Galois would be 200 years old today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva…

Happy B-Day Capn_Ron! Oct 11, 11, 3:46 p.m.

http://www.qbn.com/capn_ron/

: )

Twitter down? Sep 14, 11, 3:06 p.m.

Can't seem to reach Twitter from London or from southern Germany. But it's up in the US and up according to this: http://www.downforeveryoneorjust…

So . . . makes me curious. Anyone else unable to reach Twitter? And if so, what nation are you in?

chat room Jul 19, 11, 4:40 p.m.

I made a quick chat room:
http://stewd.io/chat

Come chat.

Louise Boat Jul 19, 11, 1:19 a.m.

Hombre_Lobo posted this in the "LulzSec takes Sun" thread but it needed its own. (See http://qbn.com/topics/659200 .)

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LulzSec takes Sun! Jul 18, 11, 4:04 p.m.

This is happening as we speak. If you go to http://www.thesun.co.uk you will be re-directed to LulzSec's Twitter page.

Paper JS Jul 14, 11, 1:58 a.m.

I'd originally posted this in the HTML5 thread, but realized it needed its own thread.

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Paper JS. http://paperjs.org

Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface. More info: http://paperjs.org/about

Windmaker Jun 30, 11, 10:31 a.m.

I've just given Windmaker some under-the-hood updates. Can you let me know how it runs for you? It will definitely be slow on older machines. I'm not concerned with IE at all, but keen on supporting Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.

Here it is . . . .
http://stewd.io/windmaker

Infinite C May 27, 11, 9:34 a.m.

If you have a minute can I get some eyes on this? It's an older project but with some recent tweaks to make it (hopefully) more reliable despite the large number of audio clips. Here's the description: http://stewd.io/work/infinitec

And here's the project:
http://stewd.io/infinitec

So fire it up in the office on a few different computers. It should support the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. (If it works in IE that's great, but it's not a design goal.) It should fall into sync with the server's clock after a few seconds.

If you want to run multiple voices on a single machine click the black arrow button in the top right corner and adjust the settings. (I find that more than 10 voices at once really kills the reliability.) Thanks guys.

655048 May 4, 11, 1:55 a.m.

I couldn't resist doing it again.

-----> http://qbn.com/topics/655048

Code Play talk Apr 15, 11, 3:26 a.m.

Fellow Qoobs. I gave a little talk about my work last November. (Was nervous!) But I had fun. And the video's now online. So...

http://stewd.io/work/codeplay

x_files Apr 11, 11, 4:24 p.m.

Photos of ZKM Apr 11, 11, 1:50 a.m.

This is where I am at the moment. ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. I think the building and surroundings (and spring time!) are pretty so I took some photos. More here: http://stewd.io/b/2011/04/10/zkm…

Cinder (C++) Apr 6, 11, 5:03 p.m.

Any of you using the Cinder library for C++? I've been playing around with it and I'm happy so far. Seems a little more streamlined / focussed than openFrameworks. Check it out: http://libcinder.org

(Also interested to know if anyone else is using Xcode 4 and if they're running into some strange CPU overheating problems.)

francis farmer Apr 5, 11, 3:12 p.m.

will have her revenge.

YouTube April Fools Apr 1, 11, 1:40 a.m.

Hit the "1911" button on the video:

And just incase that button doesn't show up on an embed perhaps this link will work?
http://youtu.be/ajoYrWCp118