flickr adds search by camera
Looks like flickr’s been listening to me. I kept asking them for ability to search by camera. Others kept rebuffing me, but I guess others shared my passion as well, because they now have Camera Finder. As you can see on the current graph of most popular camera, my camera, the Canon Digital Rebel XT, is the most popular. This is no surprise to me as I see it EVERYWHERE I go! In fact, checking out the Canon stats page I found that, as far as they can tell, there are 8 MILLION photos taken with that Camera and 2300 daily users on average! All I need now (and it may be there, waiting for me to discover it) is to be able to search my own photos by camera instead of EVERYONE’S.
Spiderman Predicts the future
It’s interesting how Science Fiction often predicts future technologies and trends. For example, this morning on CNN they were talking about a research group that is trying to switch on the gene in humans that would cause limbs to regrow. Apparently they haven’t seen what happens when you do that (I say tongue-in-cheek). Peter Parker’s favorite professor was trying to regrow his arm and his technique, which I believe involved splicing reptilian DNA, turned him into one of Spiderman’s fiercest foes, The Lizard.
Vimeo!
Just wanted to talk about Vimeo, a flickr-like site for videos. You can see my videos at http://www.vimeo.com/user:djotaku/clips . Some of my readers may notice that I have these clips on my server (except Pao Bhangra). So why would you go to vimeo? Because my server has limited bandwidth. I think it uploads at 2 Mbits per second, while these people download a lot faster. So check them out! Then check out some other people’s work.
IF you like/love Star Wars, you MUST see this!
A group has redone the entire Star Wars Episode 4 in ascii art. You can see the javascript version of Star Wars Ascii Art here. Or, if you don’t have javascript, just telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl.
The website is a better experience because it comes in a little faster and you can fast forward and skip around. These are some ridiculously talented guys.
May the force be with them.
He can see!
My penguin now has the gift of vision.
Doubtless he will complain about the crap environment I’ve put him in. There aren’t even any fish!