Originally posted on Lillyteardrop: One day several months ago, when I was still able to use Twitter, I was minding my own business when someone tweeted this photograph: As a pilot it mesmerized me. I’d never before seen an aircraft that looked like it. I couldn’t stop looking at it. I thought it was something…

Originally posted on Conner Habib: Below is the only place to read Tilda Swinton’s moving and radiant speech at the Rothko Chapel in Texas. Why do I have it?  A brief explanation. Last year, actress Tilda Swinton was presented with the Rothko Chapel Visionary Award at the The Rothko Chapel, which is home to fourteen…

Homages can be a great thing, when they force one to reconsider the thing being honored. Parodies too, they can be useful as homage. Austin Powers forced the producers of James Bond to reconsider all that had gone on before. So they rebooted the franchise with Casino Royal and Daniel Craig, and the rest as…

Clippit asking if the user needs help (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Agreed. I think insofar as a computer AI can watch and see what we’re doing and step in and prompt us with some questions, THAT will be the killer app. It won’t be Clippy the assistant from MS Word, but a friendly prompt saying, “I…

Originally posted on Spreadys.blog: After another long phone call, I decided to repeat a test previously conducted 3 years ago. The conversation surrounded a small experiment on transcoders and players. It highlighted an issue in that any documented process must include what software was used, the settings and then a comparison of the results. It…

That’s right, the fault dear reader is not in our stars but in ourselves. We have slow internets speeds, ‘Cuz Business. That’s the briefest synopsis yet that I’ve written. Whether it’s carriers allow each others traffic to run across their networks or peering arrangements or whatever, each business is trying to mess with the other…

I’m always fascinated by these one-off, one of a kind clustered systems like this Raspberry Pi rig. Kudos for doing the assembly and getting it all running. As the comments mention it may not be practical in terms of price. But still it’s pretty cool for what it is.