Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Edibles / Chile Jammin' Stuff (Southwest Flava) Chile Jammin' Stuff. These jams from Albuquerque, New Mexico, are great. Nice selection! My favorites: Habanero Hula Jam and Cherry Chipotle Jam. I am enjoying the latter right now on some German blackbread (whole Rye)....yummy! [Ottmar Liebert] 10:14:28 PM

whrrrp whrrrp the agility of the hummingbird Same bird, more patience This hummingbird makes a whrrrp whrrrp noise each time he changes direction. Which he does a lot: The 180mm f/2.8 telephoto lens gets very sharp photos, but doesn't autofocus very fast on the D100 camera. I had to manual focus this one: Even a 4 millisecond exposure is too long to see those wings! Finally the little bird cooled his jets. [101-365] 6:26:54 PM

Music Downloads Continue to Climb Music Downloads Continue to Climb. The number of U.S. music fans downloading music online increased by 27 percent between November 2003 and March 2004, research claims. Pew Internet & American Life Project ran a survey among 1371 Internet users to reach its estimates, which include users of file sharing networks (LimeWire, Kazaa) and legal services, such as Apple Computer's ITunes Music Store. Downloaders rose from 18 million to 23 million in the period. [Zeropaid - The File Sharing Portal] 6:23:47 PM

Open-Source Mesh Group in Illinois --- CUWiN gives communities a new choice for their communications infrastructure by building a house-to-house wireless "mesh." CUWiN makes it possible for neighbors to share broadband Internet access and services including Voice over IP as an alternative to traditional phone service, and alternatives to radio and cable -- such as live broadcasts from grassroots media-makers at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and "Internet radio stations" in subscribers' homes. --- (Shout out to the IMC, friends of Mediaburn! - Editor.) Open-Source Mesh Group Releases Software, Discusses Social Goals. The CUWiN project wants to allow self-forming, noncentralized, mesh-based Wi-Fi networks using standard, old PCs with no configuration. Slightly more advanced units could be ruggedized boxes using Compact Flash, but the basic unit would be a 486 or later PC with a bootable CD-ROM or bootable floppy that bootstraps a CD-ROM. Once booted, a unit finds other similar units without any other configuration or control and forms a mesh. Read the rest of this post at Wi-Fi Networking News [unmediated] 6:19:35 PM

FreeJ :: Realtime Video Processing FreeJ. FreeJ is a digital instrument for video livesets, featuring realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen. FreeJ deals with every video source as a layer, making then possible to dynamically apply on each a chain of filters, loadable as effect plugins and easily customizable. [unmediated] 6:06:36 PM

RSS: More Fab Feeds More RSS. ResearchBuzz reports that The University of Arizona and UC Berkeley news sites now have RSS feeds. The Minneapolis Public Library... [Tech, Knowledge, and Community] 6:03:48 PM

'Casshern' on The Movie Blog A Glowing Casshern Review. Hard on the heels of a pair of enthusiastic reviews on Aint It Cool, here's the first legitimate English language press response I've seen for Casshern so far. Mark Schilling at the Japan Times gives it an enthusiastic 4 stars... [The Movie Blog] 6:00:35 PM

A 2004 Moment Evan Davis. "Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car." [Quotes of the Day] 6:58:21 AM