What better way to test a Wowza Media Server than by streaming one of my favorite documentaries? In BBC Horizon episode “Homeopathy, the Test”, the excellent science series instigates its very own scientific experiment, testing the efficacy of homeopathy.
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Salvaged in a recent raid on my parents attic were, among other things, my old friend squeak the mouse, an antique Märklin train, a dusty Playmobil hospital including nurses, doctor and patient & some old “Story of Music in Cartoon” comic books and records. Partly digitally reproduced below, if only for old times sake. .
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Well, not quite. The pictured green, cute laptop is in fact an OLPC running Debian, remotely connected to a windows XP machine. Great outdoors in spring & summer thanks to the XO’s sunlight readable display. Though forgoing MSWin altogether and sticking to Debian might not be a bad idea either.
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A small Flash application selectively consuming twitter posts, cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon while doing a little research into RESTful webservices. The app continuously searches Twitter for posts containing “I love” or “I hate” (inspired by the beautiful twistory site) using the AS3 G94 Circular Menu and Tweetr API.
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Our pilot for the Kwizt project is nearing completion! For its backend the application makes use of Drupal, extensively building on the AMFPHP, Quiz and Services modules. The userinterface is 100% Flash Actionscript 3.0, smoothly bouncing elements up and down the stage thanks to GreenSocks libraries.
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I must admit, after a few days without progress, I had to suspect it just wasn’t going to work. I couldn’t get Flash to stream more than one YouTube video at the same time.
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While searching for a Flash display manager I came upon the NpFlexLayout class on Blog.noPonies.com. It seemed just what I was looking for – except for an option to constrain the proportions of resizeable objects. Fortunately it proved easy to add a “keepRatio” option to the well documented NoPonies code.
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My Red Jumping Brain has arrived! I just couldn’t resist ordering this bright red resin model from Emilio Garcia at Lapolab. .
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Ok, Louis Armstrong already knew: “Smile, and the whole world smiles with you“. But according to novel research such Happiness Power might reach further than even Satchmo would have expected.
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Though the last Calvin & Hobbes cartoon was published more than 13 years ago today, the comic about a boy and his living stuffed tiger is still one of my favourites. So what more fitting way to wish you all a happy new year than by borrowing Calvin’s new years resolution: “Let’s go exploring!”
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Today I decided to be a just a little more scientific about my nominee for next book on night stand. So I Googled it, using a random list of favourite authors right out of my non-fiction book case.
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Just a short post demonstrating the ease with which you an create a filtered live cam feed using but a few lines of Actionscript.
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Still happy with my EC2 Server. Without limits imposed by a hosting provider I can now mess about with some interesting server-sided stuff. For example an ElectroServer socket server.
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Hurray! I am virtualized! As of this week, Prlwytzkofsky’s experiments will be hosted on their very own Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Server.
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Gisteren “The Mind’s Eye” gekeken, deel drie van de BBC serie “Brain Story”. Ik had de serie al een tijdje in huis maar was er tot voor gisteren nog niet aan toegekomen.
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Mind Hacks
- An Opthamologist on Mars
- The class of 77%
- Visions of a psychedelic future
- I, Jacques Derrida, Used To Be A 97lb Weakling!
- Language as a thought magnet
- 2010-08-27 Spike activity
- Solitude conjures imaginary companions
- Mindhacks.com revamp
- Delusions of pregnancy, in a man
- You are in a maze of twisty little proteins, all alike