Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
It’s awesome that Louis C.K. released his special like this. He certainly got my $5 immediately. And, it’s even better to hear that it worked out well.
I was thinking about this today, and it’s still so funny.
(via Peter Cohen at The Loop)
Bungie Software’s legendary first-person shooter Marathon series has been rebuilt using a new game engine and re-released for free.
Jonathan Christopher points out the Network Link Conditioner pref pane, new in Lion:
This is a thing of beauty for Web developers the world over; built in network throttling on an OS level.
I didn’t know about this, and it looks super-useful. Aside from web development, you can use it to test iOS apps, either in the Simulator, or by connecting your iOS device to the ad-hoc wifi on your Mac.
The Instacast iPad app came out today, which looks pretty nice (though I don’t have an iPad right now to try it out). But, this struck me as a pretty good description of how I felt when starting to use Instacast (which really is a great app):
[…] it is one of those apps that at first blush you think: “yeah but I can just do that with the built in iOS tools.” Then you use the app and you think: “pretty nice, well done.”
Then a month later you are still using it.
Then you go to another device (your iPad) that doesn’t have Instacast and you immediately think: “well this sucks.”
I still use Instacast every day, mostly to listen to shows from 5by5 (including Hypercritical, Back to Work, Build & Analyze, and The Critical Path, which are all top-notch), and also the Nerdist, The Sound of Young America, Radiolab, Freakonomics, and This American Life (apparently since I don’t have a car radio, this is my substitue for NPR). And, I still have You Look Nice Today in there, with secret hopes that one day there will be a new episode. Until that day comes, Merlin’s new Roderick on the Line is doing a nice job of filling in (along with the entire YLNT back catalog, which I have cached and still listen to, and still crack up in public, because they’re so great).
(via 512pixels)
Looks like a pretty good technique for small, non-important cables, but seems like the fold-in-half-repeatedly part of it wouldn’t necessarily scale well to longer cables (e.g. a 50ft ethernet cable).
For longer cables, I like the over-under coiling technique (linked from the comments on that post), but I do wish there was an easier way to tie off the end (rather than needing velcro or a twist-tie).
As for iPhone headphones, I personally swear by this technique (via Gruber a while ago).
PS: Nice soundtrack.
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor.
To get it, you need to install the ‘moreutils’ package using either Homebrew (which I’ve been using these days), or MacPorts.
I love Steve’s stinky cheese face more than most things.
“Stinky cheese face” is such a great call by Adam here. It cracks me up every time I see this photo.
Poly™ (by Jean-Christophe Naour)
This is pretty neat. It’s a relatively simple idea that looks like it would be fun to play with and produce some interesting results.
It would be fun to try to make a project like this. I’ve always thought that image-processing is a fun thing to tinker with, because it’s easy to get a variety of input material that people readily connect with (i.e. their photos), and you can do some remarkable things by repeatedly applying (hopefully) simple algorithms, to each pixel/etc. It’s also a good engineering challenge to try to make it go fast. That said, I haven’t ever done much more than basic attempts, and it’s always turned out to be tricker than I expect. And I have no formal training in graphics processing/algorithms or OpenGL or anything like that…
(via Siri, where’s the best cider sangria? | 52 Tiger)
Pretty clever. And, that’s a pretty accurate chalk rendition of the linen background, actually.
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