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Amazon.com: All Products Search Results: lomugraphicHere’s what I want, lomugraphy, a camera with an array of lenses which fire sequentially. Plenty of really sunny days here in moz, which is necessary as you can’t put a flash on to help with all four exposures.

Also, I’ll have to scan/photograph the resulting photos for you to see.

But can’t anyone make these things a bit more robust? I reckon there’s a space for putting some playful macros on a digital camera to reproduce the lomugraphy effect from burst mode and output pre-composed chopped images from the sequences.

The Rethinking CS101 Project. I don’t know how much has changed in the last year, but I’m finally going to explore these great-looking resources properly, including the on-line textbook Interactive Programming in Java.

Flickr: Photos from neillzero.

If you have a flickr account, let me know to add you to “pals”, so you can comment the photos. Revisiting flickr I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to work with, so I will put some more photos up.

Coding4Fun

including beginning game development (.net + directx).

Iraq, 9/11, Al Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What the Public Believes Now, According to Latest Harris Poll.

via Aaron Schwartz - “What journalists don’t”.

photos from a police car. via metafilter

Java ID3 MP3? Good luck! They liked this one - javazoom.spi, among a lot of crappy libraries.

From the blog Public Object.

Bread is dangerous.

1. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

Via metafilter

JRegexer is a small and simple tool to develop and test regexes that are parsed with java.util.regex.*.

Looks a lot like kodos: python regex debugger mentioned before, which’ll start faster. Eclipse version would be nice, I guess.

What genius figured that one out.

BBC NEWS | Education | ‘Playing better than lessons’

Actually the context is this: “Young children can learn more if they are allowed to play in the sand at school, rather than sitting still in formal lessons, suggests research.” Looks at five-year-olds (first year of “sit on seats all day” education in UK).

Great title, though. No shit, Sherlock.

Gamasutra: “The Guerrilla Guide to Game Code”. A look at some aspects of the basic game engine used in development of a game (in this case a FPS).

No time, but blogging for my future self: GreaseMonkey.

GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

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Jon Udell

on privacy concerns of udell’s otherwise cool “memetracker” greasemonkey script

“One expert on “entrepreneurship” told me that any startup had to include business people, because only they could focus on what customers wanted.

“Do you suppose Google is only good because they had some business guy whispering in their ears what customers wanted? It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started.”

Paul Graham - Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas. Not so fussed about the read itself, actually.

Hmm: “Trevor Blackwell presents the following recipe for a startup: “Watch people who have money to spend, see what they’re wasting their time on, cook up a solution, and try selling it to them. It’s surprising how small a problem can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution.” Totally applicable here, and scales down pretty well. Unfortunately everyone just keeps “guarding” cars.

Kill Bill - “Microsoft’s army of lawyers was no match for a kid from Kent State”.

“How could I sign the agreement if I’d never opened the software? It didn’t make any sense”

“Zamos went back to the drawing board and made two more motions, accusing Microsoft of perjury, causing him emotional distress, defamation, unconscionable consumer practices, abuse of process, fraud, and more.”

New Scientist: The clock that wakes you when you are ready via BoingBoing.

See also: bio alarm clock (here), normal circadian rhythms (here), Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (elsewhere).

I have created some Xitsonga flashcards at FlashcardExchange.

Bow, Nigger: A decent article capturing some of the thrill (and frustration) of online gaming. Via gamedevblog via Games from Within

Actually, this is a better read.

Cameron recently found something that had him giggling away for ages, about Civilisation Out of the Rubble I - The Byzantine Empire. Had to be there, I guess.

Also: Guardian: ten unmissable examples of new games journalism.

0xCAFEFEED: Colorizing Java sources in a browser using JavaScript and CSS

Actually, hina hajondza Xitsonga - we are learning Xitsonga.

It is a bit bizarre using my weak portuguese to learn cangana while half-deaf. As an intellectual exercise, it’s going to be fun, at least until Cameron starts to run away with it in the lessons.

Learning to Play to Learn - Lessons in Educational Game Design”