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Screenshot: hongkong.edushi.com
Can I just say that this is the coolest thing ever created using the Google Maps API?!
At first you would think that this was Simcity but it's not. This is a map of Hong Kong in its full 3d glory. I had wished for something like this for a long time but I was surprised to see that the Chinese developers did it first. Kudos!!!
Edushi E都市
1. 3D Map of Hong Kong (with UI)
3. 3D Map of Beijing (with labels)
via Google Maps API по-русски: Невероятная трехмерная карта Гонгконга
In Turkey, oil wresting is a totally legit sport between men. The rules are simple:
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1. Get oiled up with lots of olive oil.
2. What happened after you got properly oiled up.
3. Wrestling in oil.
4. What it looks like when you have won.
It seems that Turkey is much of a destination for this year’s world tour. Yes indeed. SML needs to go and do some sports photography once in a while.
Via Derek Holzmacher — SML Thank You.
On the web: Buzzfeed:
www.buzzfeed.com/catesish/turkish-oil-wrestling-is-a-tota...
“Buzzfeed: Turkish Oil Wrestling between men” / SML.20130325.SC.PublicMedia
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SML Pro Blog: Bug Labs = Mindstorms for Super-Geeks
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.
Technical Specifications
+ ARM1136JF-S-based microprocessor
+ 1 USB 2.0 HS host interface/4 hub port connections
+ 1 USB OTG HS interface
+ 4 UART serial links
+ 4 channel SPI interface
+ I2C (400 kbits) interface/4 channels
+ I2S interface/2 channels
+ Smart LCD interface
+ Camera sensor interface
+ Micro memory card interface
+ MPEG4 hardware encoding/decoding
+ Hardware graphic acceleration
+ 10/100 Ethernet MAC
+ 802.11b/g
+ Base unit LCD module interface
+ Base unit onboard memory (FLASH/DDR SDRAM)
+ JTAG/ICE support
+ Serial debug port
+ Power system
+ AC operation
+ Battery operation/up to 4 external batteries
+ Fast battery charging/simultaneous of internal and external batteries
+ Smart power management support
+ Battery-backed real-time clock
+ Audio out via onboard piezo speaker
Pretty cool. Check it out!
SML Thank You
I would like to thank Alex Rainert (Google / SML Wiki) for sending this over :)
The Public Domain Review continues to dump out bizarre images onto its archive.
Shown here is a Japanese woodcut by Kamekichi Tsunajima titled “Ryūkō eigo zukushi”, or “A Fashionable Melange of English Words”. The print shows images of animals, activities and objects each with their Japanese and English names. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) some spelling mistakes have given rise to some interesting new activities such as “Refreshiug” and “Cuting Rice”, and the “Gaot”, “Hoise” and “Tea Po”. The introduction of activities (including the very Zen-like “Looking Moon”) give an interesting take on the often more object-orientated Western equivalents. Also worth noting the interesting additions of “Cross Child” rather than simply “Child” , and “Blank Book” rather than “Book”.
(This image has been “restored” by Wikimedia user trialanderrors and is housed at Wikimedia Commons. The original can be found at the Library of Congress).
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Screenshot: now.sprint.com/widget/
Sprint launched an interactive advertising campaign to promote their mobile broadband network called Now.
The site is realized as a cluster of widget panels, each of which displays one aspects of what's happening in the world. Rolling each widget gives a bit of data about the world.
Particularly interesting to me is the very witty copy which comes with the voice over. The sound design is also very well done, which mimics the ambience aboard a spaceship. Nice animation. Overall it's a well executed site. Kudos to the team who created this!
Credits
+ Aaron Dietz, art director
+ Mandy Dietz, writer
+ Christian Haas, creative director
+ Rich Silverstein, executive creative director
+ Tena Goy/Margaret McLaughlin, producers
+ Derek Richmond, executive producer
+ Mike Kellogg, FaceFaceFace, project design and development
+ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (San Francisco, CA), ad agency
via Didier Lahely on Friendfeed - SML Thank You!
Did Flickr change its view counting method after the recent UI change which shows photos in a never-ending scroll?
In the past, my typical daily view count circles around 3000 views per day, but as you can be seen in the screenshot here, it has gone up to the 5-digit range. So much so that in typical Flickr fashion they have probably locked my account two days before which moved view count to zero.
I know that they do inspect “suspicious activities” by temporarily locking accounts because every time my photos get used on prominent web sites, my view count will soar, and then immediately the next day I would see my view count drop to zero. But I am fairly certain that this is not such instance.
Also noted: normal new photo views typically circles around 50 at most daily but something posted yesterday now will circle in the 200+ values, leading me to suspect that something is going on — though exactly what is unclear.
SML Flickr Stats: 2013-08-01 / SML Data / SML.20130801.SC
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“Tracking the trackers: Gary Kovacs explains Mozilla Collusion” #data #privacy #opinions
It was said that data is the new oil [1]. The data mining industry is an annual US$39 billion business. Like it or not, data is being collected about you surf the web. The technology was not intended as evil, but as Internet citizens we have the right to know what data is being collected and how it might affect us.
During a recent TED Talk, Gary Kovacs, the CEO of the Mozilla Corporations, demonstrated Collusion, a free Firefox add-on which visualizes your browsing behavior in real time. [2, 3]
In the visualization: the blue dots are sites which you have visited, the red dots are third party sites which are tracking you, and the gray dots are tracking data which could not be identified.
In his demo, Gary showed that 25+ sites started tracking him by checking emails during breakfast. An even more alarming aspect of this was installing the addon on his 9 year-old daughter’s computer and visualizing what companies are tracking through her browsing kids’ sites.
What Gary showed is the tip of an iceberg. Through my own consulting gigs in New York, several multi-national corporations have demonstrated what their own tech can track—which goes far beyond what is thought to be humanly possible. A very alarming feat indeed.
Recommended.
1. Data is the new oil - Human Face of Big Data © Nigel Holmes 2012 www.flickr.com/photos/emcuki/8008798697/
2. TED: Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers: www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html
3. Mozilla: Collusion: discovers who is tracking you online: www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
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Microsoft Pivot running to show collection of Magic: The Gathering cards and NFL Players. I thought that this kind of visualization would be uber useful for online personals!!! :)
SML 720 HD Simulcast
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+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=umKD0AoXef0
Soundtrack by SML Music
+ 24-bit 48 kHz WAV
+ Download at soundcloud.com/seeminglee/microsoft-pivot-soundtrack-sml
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CC-BY-SA 2009 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / SML Universe
Screenshot: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/sets/72057594128077560/
Summary
Typographic landscape of a city described through visually counting from 1 to 100.
Setup
These were shot with my first digital camera, the Sony Mavica FD7.
Statement
This was my first photography project. It started out as a project for a typography class while I was in college. Like most graphic design assignments at Yale, it was very open ended. We were asked to show the experience of a city through the language of typography. I have always been interested in numbers, and I as such I decided to run around New Haven and photograph numbers which represent the city, from 1 to 100.
The series is to be projected on the wall as slideshow. The numbers are recognizably New Haven, and most who have been in New Haven can recognize the sense of time and space as they go through the series. Some commented that it reminded them of Sesame Street.
I thought of extended this to different neighborhoods in New York, but I never had the time to work on more of them after college, and as such I have only completed the first and only one...
The original series was displayed via a conventional slide projector. In order to best-simulate the original intention on a computer, view the set as a slideshow and set the speed to fast.
Licensing
CC-BY-SA 1997 See-ming Lee
This is a visualization of traffic sources over a one-month period for SML Pro Blog on Google Analytics, highlighting in particular performance on social networks from Twitter (red), Facebook (blue) and Friendfeed (teal), with Google (SEO) traffic added for comparison.
Important to note also is the network connectivity associated with those profiles:
SML Facebook: 630 friends.
SML Friendfeed: 279 subscriptions
SML Twitter: 767 followers
I think that FriendFeed is a clear winner here. It even outperforms Google.
To promote the “bachelor seasons,” it appears that the sexy retro model is now replaced with boring preppy kids. Now it looks almost like either. J.Crew wedding or some Princeton pre-frosh orientation camp. Wtf.
Is Bonobos “bending” to the status quo to appeal to the “unfashionably straight men” market? Oh BonobosNinjas, you just lost a brownie point in my “cool kids crowd.” Hopefully I will see better spams from you in the coming months as otherwise trust that I will unsubscribe soon.
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As Cosmopolitan writes, it is “Sex in the City marries Facebook.” While SML has his “MenReview” project, it seems that this idea is not really that far off, as clearly there is a market for men reviews.
Available on iOS as well as the Android platform, LuLu allows women to review men anonymously, with things which women apparently do care about: is he ambitious, trustworthy, good in bed?
Sickly awesome. Crazysigood. SML Love.
Screenshot: www.onlulu.com/
“LuLu—new app allows women to search + review men”
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“iTunes: Country change” $AAPL #UX #FAIL #opinions
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1. The updated iTunes is awesome. Spiffy and neat. SML Love. SML Thank You. Yes I own a lot of @Tiesto. Tiesto is my “work like a machine” biohacking music. The US Air Force uses Amphetamine for the same purpose, but Tiesto is both safer and cheaper (and legal in most countries).
2. Now that my iTunes Match subscription has ended, I can finally change country. SML Thank You. Updated my credit card information to Hong Kong, so all should be good, right?
3. Apparently not. I kept on getting error 5002. Googling the net it seems that credit card info is the issue. People suggest that removing CC and then only subscribing again should work. But not for me.
4. But I have identified the issue. Basically, the US address entries contain City and State information which Hong Kong address does not. But since I used to live in New York, those fields are active, thus obviously my bank does not authorize an address in Brooklyn but there is no way for me to remove those entries in my address fields [2]
SML2AAPL: please fix! SML Thank You in advance.
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1. An illustration posted onto Unfuck The World’s Facebook Pager timeline. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587265404633079&set=a...
2. Screenshot of the NWS stock on the StockWatch iPad app with these parameters: 1 yr, candle, Bollinger Bands, Parabolic SAR, splits, volumes.
3. Screenshot of News Corporation’s (partial) holdings on Wikipedia spanning TV, magazines, radio, newspaper, Internet across the entire world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
4. News Corporation or News Corp. is an American diversified multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City, United States. It is the world's second-largest media group as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009. The company is controlled by Rupert Murdoch and his family members. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
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“Skype screen share becomes premium; Google+ Hangout = free;” $MSFT $GOOG
I just went onto Skype to screen share for a conference but apparently after Microsoft bought Skype, all these features which used to be free comes with a $ sign. You can’t even just pay with credit anymore. To use premium features you must subscribe to a monthly €6.99/month or annual plan: €3.49/month.
Thankfully you don’t need to stick with Skype. First off, for video conferencing I have found Apple’s FaceTime (free) to have the best quality so this is where I do the actual video conferencing, which is free. Google Plus’ Hangout (also free) supports screen share so that is what I use to share the actual screen.
Relying on monthly subscriptions to drive revenue is terrible. Companies can make more money doing data analytics for businesses, I think. But some companies are filled with financial advisors who just want to make quick easy bucks. Ah well, shortsighted business people abound.
Screenshots:
+ www.skype.com/intl/en/prices/premium/
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Researchers find millions of vulnerable Net-facing printers, cams, and routers.
Security experts are advising that a networking feature known as Universal Plug and Play be disabled on routers, printers, and cameras, after finding it makes tens of millions of Internet-connected devices vulnerable to serious attack.
UPnP, as the feature is often abbreviated, is designed to make it easy for computers to connect to Internet gear by providing code that helps devices automatically discover each other over a local network. That often eliminates the hassle of figuring out how to configure devices the first time they're connected. But UPnP can also make life easier for attackers half a world away who want to compromise a home computer or breach a business network, according to a white paper published Tuesday by researchers from security firm Rapid7.
Screenshot: arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/to-prevent-hacking-disab...
“To prevent hacking, disable Universal Plug and Play now” by @dangoodin001 @arstechnics #security #opinions
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SML Pro Blog: SoundCloud = Innovative Social Network for Musicians
SoundCloud is a social network startup for musicians based in Berlin. Originally from Stockholm, the founders created the site after they have grown "tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks."
Just a couple of years ago, when you mention music and social networks, the first site that came to mind is MySpace. Yes, MySpace is a social network and they do put much weight on music and musicians, but MySpace fails to innovate beyond implementing comments + music player, and that is barely social. In this blog post I will go through the many innovations SoundCloud brought to the music scene and explain why I like it so much.
Read full blog post with screenshots + videos »
SoundCloud Innovations
+2 Continuous playback from people you follow
+3 Push to other social networks
+4 DropBox
Exactly what are the differences between Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 and Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lenses besides the difference in pricing, someone on Facebook asked.
Quite a bit. When I do any kind of shopping, I perform extensive research. And I can see the differences regarding performances among these lenses. I also asked the opinions of my peers who have worked with these lenses.
The number 1 criticism cited by photographers regarding the 50 f/1.8 II is the poor construction. Note that people have problem mostly with the Mark II but not the Mark I. So if you have the Mark I then this criticism does not apply.
The other main difference, as can be seen pictured here which comes directly from the Canon EF Lens Book III is the lens elements configuration. Generally speaking the L series contains aspherical lens elements which makes their images superior to others. As one photographer once said to me, although for the consumer line of lenses you often have to pump the saturation quite a bit, when shooing with the L lens you often need to dial the saturation down.
I have worked with both lines of lenses and I can speak to this fact.
Basically you don’t need expensive lenses if you are willing to work on the photo after the fact, which you should anyways, but working with good input does usually save time and effort in postproduction aka processing workflow.
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Makibox = 3D printer for 200 USD! The catch is that you have to assemble it yourself. The more well known MakerBot is a 3D printer for 2500 USD although that printer does come assembled.
I am thinking of getting one. The 200 is definitely a chewable R&D cost. Its founder Jonathan Buford is based in Hong Kong so I figured that if I failed miserably in my assembly there is at least someone close by to give me some help.
Will let you know how it goes once my order is in. I figured that if I successfully got this to work I can probably graduate from geekdom into nerddom so it would be a very worthy thing to do.
Screenshot: makibox.com/products
“Makibox 3D Printer” / SML Shopping Opinions / SML.20130509.SC
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“How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini's millions”
m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/vatican-secret-propert...
#finance #religion
Papacy used offshore tax havens to create £500m international portfolio, featuring real estate in UK, France and Switzerland
Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the church's international portfolio has been built up over the years, using cash originally handed over by Mussolini in return for papal recognition of the Italian fascist regime in 1929.
Since then the international value of Mussolini's nest-egg has mounted until it now exceeds £500m. In 2006, at the height of the recent property bubble, the Vatican spent £15m of those funds to buy 30 St James's Square. Other UK properties are at 168 New Bond Street and in the city of Coventry. It also owns blocks of flats in Paris and Switzerland.
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Screenshot: listorious.com/seeminglee/socialmedia
Jonathan Nafarette (Listorious / Twitter / Web) submitted my social media Twitter list to Listorious (Twitter / Web). In turn, since I subscribe to my own Google Alerts, I was alerted about this interesting Twitter List tool.
Signing up for the service is easy. As a Twitter app, when you tried to login, it prompts you to "allow access" to your Twitter account and you're all set. No sign up, no registration.
Each lists contain the bio of the people on the list, and you can use tags to make your lists more followable. The service also implements a data analytics / ranking system which shows the Top 140 Lists as well as Top 140 Listed People - an interesting play on Twitter's 140 character limit.
The interface is clean and usable and is easily recommendable as a good resource for exploring Twitter Lists.
Data is important to me. Some humans commented that I have a lot of tags. If you have no data, sure, you don’t need tags. But if you have 10,000+ media items on Flickr like I do, you tag, you organize, you make sure that everything you do is searchable so that when someone asked you for a photo, you are able to find it under 10 seconds. I can do that. Can you?
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1. I use Adobe Lightroom, because it has tight integration with the EXIF metadata storage scheme implemented by Flickr.
2. When I enter information in the title / description area of Lightroom, it automatically populates the relevant fields on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/
3. When I assign keywords inside Lightroom, they get populated as Flickr tags. Lightroom has an awesome feature which allows you to create synonyms for tags, and is what I currently do for Chinese tags. I am bilingual, Flickr is not. So assigning synonyms inside Lightroom, I tag once but then Flickr shows both Chinese and English on the page. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/
4. The JPEG format stores metadata information in the form of EXIF. Add /meta to the Flickr URL and you see it instantly. JPEG EXIF on Flickr is text only, making it very indexable by search engines. All that info you spend time organizing in Lightroom is reflected automatically. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/meta
Some people said that they have no idea where I find the time to popular these fields. I don’t. Everything is automatic. Things just get smartly embedded everywhere. With a few scripts anything is possible.
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Tabac Mono www.suitcasetype.com/tabac-mono/specimen by Suitcase Type Foundry = the best monospace font I have seen since… possibly never.
Design: Tomáš Brousil
Release date: 2012
Format: OpenType, WOFF, EOT, SVG
Glyphs per font: 725
Language support: Latin Std
SML Love. SML Rec.
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“SMLGYM” $GOOG $YHOO $MSFT
SML Opinions:
Yahoo has had a good year. I reason that it largely has to do with the economy of China. Although in Google is the defacto search engine in the US, when you move around the world you will notice that different parts of the world’s primary search engine differs greatly.
For example, in Hong Kong, the number 1 search engine that people reference (just by casual conversation) is Yahoo. In the UK, it seems that people reference Bing often. This is unusual to me. But if you think deeply, Google has many properties which are blocked by China’s Great Firewall. Google could not survive in China so if China is slowly becoming the creditor of the world, then it would make sense for companies which are able to survive in China to do well.
One must also not forget Baidu. There are a ton of amazing content available in Chinese. Just because you cannot read it does not mean that data is not available. This is often the number 1 thing I noticed about technology companies based in the US—they ignore the audience in other parts of the world while trying to be a global products and services company. You can’t force your language and culture onto others. Learn from history regarding world peace and diplomacy. Then you will go far.
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www.humorgasms.com/2012/12/prescription-impossible/
No thanks. I don’t want any Viagra. What I want is something that my wife can take that will make me want to take Viagra.
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“Prescription Impossible”
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Design Within Reach: Newsletter: 2007-11-21: Just in: Sound design
Design Within Reach: Geneva Sound System
Fill your room with music, not equipment. Presenting quality sound from a piano-lacquered wooden box with CD player, FM radio and iPod dock – all controlled by remote. With two channels and patented algorithms, the Geneva Sound System digitally adapts the left and right signals for a balanced 120-degree sound stage. A 100-watt high fidelity digital amplifier powers the system’s built-in stereo tweeters, woofers and 8-inch subwoofers, which together deliver the sound performance found in larger systems. Everything you play will be enjoyed with a full range of frequencies – from deep, rich bass to crystal clear highs, without dropping a single note in between. An LED display on the front of the cabinet displays what’s playing. The iPod dock connectors include iPod Video, Nano, Photo and Mini. Rubber feet help protect the adjacent surface; a floor stand is available, sold separately.
Material
Piano-lacquered wood; electronics.
Measurements
H 11.5" W 17.5" D 14"
Retail
$700
Screenshot: image-swirl.googlelabs.com
The new Google Image Search interface from the Google Labs visualizes large collections of images through clustering.
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Official Google Blog: Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs
11/17/2009 11:17:00 AM
Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more. With Similar Images, which recently graduated from Google Labs, you can click "Find similar images" to narrow your search to, say, pictures of the Eiffel Tower lit up at night. Today, we've launched an experimental feature in Labs called Google Image Swirl, which builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface.
...Image Swirl expands on technologies developed for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition to discern how images should be grouped together and build hierarchies out of these groups. Each thumbnail on the initial results page represents an algorithmically-determined representative group of images with similar appearance and meaning. These aren't just the most relevant images — they are the most relevant groups of images.
Image Swirl currently works for more than 200,000 queries and we plan to include more queries in the future. Available queries will auto-complete as you start to type in the search box, similar to Google Suggest.
A few years ago, I subscribed to Amazon S3, but after backing up just a fraction of data over to S3, I noticed that my monthly cost has jumped to $200 USD / month, and that was not chewable, so I gave it up.
Last year, a friend asked me to take a look at Amazon Glacier, and it looks more economical, but it is still not very ideal. The ideal solution is just to have the data somewhere else just in case. The CrashPlan Unlimited gives me unlimited storage for $60 USD / year, and that seems almost too good to be true. But I had to do something about my archive.
So WTF are those 1.7TB of files there? Just my RAW archive. I need to store them somewhere offsite. Well, according to the software it would take 6 months for me to complete my current backup. I have a 20Mbps up/down line in Hong Kong, but the transfer rate is at around 1Mbps so it would take some time. Unlike Amazon services, there is no way to send them an HDD and let them store the data for me. But again, pricing is unbeatable.
Meanwhile, I still subscribe to a 500GB Dropbox for a cool $50 USD / month. This I use mostly for design and programming projects. There is truly no way I can imagine paying 2TB storage on Dropbox.
So we shall see what happens.
I am _still_ investigating a NAS RAID for local use, and another local project drive for videography. Most probably would go for Synology DiskStations but haven’t really made up my mind yet.
CrashPlan Unlimited: Backing up 1.8TB at 1Mbps = 6 months remaining / SML Opinions / SML.20130711.SC
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This screenshot shows the Ableton Live set used for creating the Orphion Ping Pong piece. Since the piece is played live, you can see that the wrap points are everywhere.
24-bit 48kHz WAV download on SML SoundCloud:
+ sml8.it/smlsoundcloud-orphion-ping-pong
# SML Data
Album: Bits + Pieces
Video: H264 MP4, 1920x1080, 24fps, Progressive, 8 Mbps
Audio: AAC, 320 kbps, 48 kHz, Stereo
Length: 1 min 43 sec
Size: 14 MB
License: CCBY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Date: 2012-11-25 (recorded) 2012-11-27 (processed)
Music: See-ming Lee 李思明, SML Music
Media Production: SML Universe
Copyright: CCBY 2012 See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Music / SML Universe Limited
“Bits + Pieces: Orphion Ping Pong” Ableton Live Set
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A photo from the 寧 Serenity photo series got included in a gallery by Yahoo Editorial Picks and it drove 5,000 view traffic in a day. The best thing in life cannot be bought and are thus priceless. SML Thank You! You just made my day.
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1. “空清水靜如龍鳳 夜夢金輝滿江紅” / 香港中文大學全景夜之寧 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Panoramic Night Serenity / SML.20130306.7D.26377-SML.20130306.7D.26385-Pano.003.Rectilinear.90x94.P1.L1: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8532245225
2. Flickr: Yahoo Editorial Picks: Galleries: Plenty of Yellow: www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/7215763...
3. Photo Stats: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8532245225/stats/
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SML Pro Blog: SoundCloud = Innovative Social Network for Musicians
SoundCloud is a social network startup for musicians based in Berlin. Originally from Stockholm, the founders created the site after they have grown "tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks."
Just a couple of years ago, when you mention music and social networks, the first site that came to mind is MySpace. Yes, MySpace is a social network and they do put much weight on music and musicians, but MySpace fails to innovate beyond implementing comments + music player, and that is barely social. In this blog post I will go through the many innovations SoundCloud brought to the music scene and explain why I like it so much.
Read full blog post with screenshots + videos »
SoundCloud Innovations
+2 Continuous playback from people you follow
+3 Push to other social networks
+4 DropBox
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SML Pro Blog: SoundCloud = Innovative Social Network for Musicians
SoundCloud is a social network startup for musicians based in Berlin. Originally from Stockholm, the founders created the site after they have grown "tired of getting emails with YouSentIt links or FTP log-ins just to be able to check out our friends latest soon-to-be released tracks."
Just a couple of years ago, when you mention music and social networks, the first site that came to mind is MySpace. Yes, MySpace is a social network and they do put much weight on music and musicians, but MySpace fails to innovate beyond implementing comments + music player, and that is barely social. In this blog post I will go through the many innovations SoundCloud brought to the music scene and explain why I like it so much.
Read full blog post with screenshots + videos »
SoundCloud Innovations
+2 Continuous playback from people you follow
+3 Push to other social networks
+4 DropBox
Screenshot: www.spezify.com/#/_22_see-ming+lee_22_
Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
"We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience. We want you to get a good overview of a subject, find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference between blogs, videos, microblogs and images. Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.
We collect websites and are aiming to use as many relevant, free and open API:s as possible to generate extensive and diverse search results."
Spezify was founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson who have over 10 years experience within the creative digital industry.
A beta was released late April 2009 and the first official version went online on the 15th of June. The developers are constantly working on Spezify, adding API:s and enhancing the search experience for upcoming versions.
“So basically I grew up in a party”—LaLa Ortiz
Surrounded by floor-to-ceiling happy colors in a surrounding filled with lava lamps and fishnets, LaLa’s childhood is one of hippie descent—which could best be summarized as peace, love and herbal enlightenment.
Her upbringing reminds me of the party scene in New York in the 90s—a remake of the Tunnel rooms [1]. I don’t even go clubbing, but as a photographer I sometimes get invited to tag along and I was exposed to many of these crazy happenings usually after 4am when the bar closes. Before the days of “hush hush” [2] and clubs are still everywhere, this is where you go.
If our childhood shapes how we are today, it might explain why LaLa’s artwork is also full of wonders and the soul of the highly imaginary.
# Notes
1. Tunnel was a nightclub in New York City. It was architecturally distinctive: a long, narrow space with multiple rooms on several levels. One room, decorated by artist Kenny Scharf, was called the Kenny Scharf Lava Lounge. Others were decorated as Victorian libraries, S/M dungeons, and lounges. In the late 1980s, Club Kids, including Michael Alig, Amanda Lepore, and RuPaul, often gathered in the V.I.P. room in the basement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_(New_York_nightclub)
2. Hush hush is a form of “private clubs” for the “knowing few” to consume liquor for exuberant ripped off prices in local restaurants to avoid the 4am kurfew.
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“Mac App Store: Change country, lose all purchases” $AAPL #UX #FAIL #WTF #NotAllCrazyisgood
I was pretty sure that the address field for the iTunes UX FAIL could be a minor hiccup. Seems I am tied to the US permanently. After changing country from US to Hong Kong, all my apps for the Mac disappears.
“You have not yet purchased any apps.” Are you kidding me?! Since when do people need to repurchase all apps because they have moved?
SML2AAPL: NOT ALL CRAZY IS GOOD. Please fix this immediately!
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Screenshot here is what the Ableton Live set of Orphion Ping Pong looks like inside Griid Pro. I own many Ableton Live iPad controller apps including TouchOSC and TouchAble. TouchAble is the one with the most features. TouchOSC is a custom hackable version. I also write my own Python OSC hacks to interface with Ableton Live in the shell. So trust that I know how all these things work.
Griid Pro, made by Liine, does not have as many features as TouchAble, but it is however the most stable. Stability and user experience is important to me. Sometimes you just want things to work as they are supposed to. You don’t really need a whole lot of features. That said Griid Pro can use an interface update. Regina graphics would be nice.
Otherwise it is well worth its slightly higher admission price. Recommended.
“iPad Ableton Live Controller: Griid Pro: Bits + Pieces: Orphion Ping Pong: Ableton Live Set” #music #tools #opinions
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Screenshot: vark.com
01. Homepage
02. After login
See my review about the service at SML Wiki: Aardvark
If Wikipedia:leet [1] is too difficult for you to comprehend, fear not—there is a simple English edition of the same entry [2] which can get you started in no time. 1337 is good for avoiding search engine index. But it has other good useful uses, such as creating highly memorable passwords which fits today’s strong passwords requirements.
Let’s say that I need to create a new password for pinterest, and I have decided to just use my name and pinterest for it so I will always remember it, so I type:
p1nt3r3stS33M1NGL33 (using pinterestseeminglee as my mnemonic key for human memory) by substituting all vowels with numbers and use my name in capital letters. Obviously you might want l create something stronger, for example:
P!n73re57533/\/\!n6733
Which is still basically “pinterestseeminglee” but easily memorizable. This beats using any other methods. Nerds tools are useful for something. Use it.
2. simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Before you decide to hack my pinterest account, let’s just say that this is not it—but now I could also be telling you this intentionally. What do you know? :)
“1337 for humans + easy password construction” #nerds #lang
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“There are no bad tools. Only uninspired use of said tools.”—Nathaniel Drapiza.
True. But then humans are mostly uninspired animals.
“There are no bad tools. Only uninspired use of said tools.”—Nathaniel Drapiza / SML.20130320.SC.NET.Facebook
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Multiple journalism media report that Twitter has been hacked earlier this week.
1. Guardian: Technology: 2013-02-02: News: Twitter says 250,000 accounts have been hacked in security breach: Anonymous hackers were able to gain access to usernames, email addresses and passwords in 'sophisticated' operation www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/02/twitter-hacked-...
2. Slashdot: IT: 2013-02-02: Reporting the incident on the company's official blog, Twitter's manager of network did not specify the method by which hackers penetrated its system, but mentioned vulnerabilities related to Java in Safari and Firefox, and echoed Homeland Security's advisory that users disable Java in their browsers. Looks like bad things do happen in threes — Twitter's report comes on the heels of disclosures of hacking attacks on the WSJ and NY Times. it.slashdot.org/story/13/02/02/0340220/twitter-hacked
3. Wired: Threat Level: Kim Setter: 2013-02-01: Twitter Hacked; Company Says 250K Users May Have Been Affected: www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/twitter-hacked/
4. TechCrunch: 2013-02-01: Drew Olanoff: Just Go Change Your Twitter Password Now. techcrunch.com/2013/02/01/twitter-hacked-250k-affected-ju...
“Twitter Hacked: 250k accounts affected” #security #socialmedia
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Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
Via Charlie at Tim Libert: Occupy Tracking: timlibert.me/writing/occupy-tracking/#comment-126
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1. Simon Forman created an aviation unit called “Ziggybot” which lifts using three balloons. thinkpigeon.blogspot.com/2013/01/ziggybot.html
2. IEEE posted a nano quad rotor bot called MeCam equipped with camera for US$50 spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/mecam-is...
3. SML saw that the two is of relevance and posted to Google+. Simon observed that 3 lifting units might be better than 4. plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12kxjgxmripxrekn22djvqb...
I don’t know much about aviation engineering so I can’t comment directly. Though I guesstimate that the physics for aerodynamics would likely be similar to that of structural engineering [note1]. And if so, then three seems better than four.
#Notes
1. SML took a class in while in college when toying with the idea of double-majoring in art + architecture (but ultimately decided that 6 studios per semester is just inhumane).
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$AMZN Glacier: $0.012 per GB / month with 10TB data = 120 USD / month.
Crashplan promises unlimited data for $9 / month = is it even possible? Too good to be true?
But 1. Amazon offers harddisk ship in data. 2. Crashplan likely have no such service.
Decisions. Decisions. Most likely would go with AWS unless Crashplan promises to actually still exist in 20 years. Unclear.
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Shell is generally the way to go, but for humans who need a holding hand, these web apps and GUI apps should help jump start the process.
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1. Github is the leading platform for git repo’s. Public repo hosting is free. Private repo hosting costs $. Many open source projects host on GitHub. Great community. Recommended for public repo hosting. github.com
2. BitBucket is a clone of github. One can argue whether it is in fact unethical that they do that. But BitBucket supports free private hosting so SML uses it also. In recent years BitBucket has been gaining traction in the Python community. Most notably the flask framework is hosted on BitBucket and not Github. Recommended for free private repo hosting. bitbucket.org
3. SourceTree is a free GUI client for git repo browsing and tracking. It is arguably the best free app available on the OSX. Its UI can use a work over, but again you can’t beat its price. Recommended for free GUI repo browsing. www.sourcetreeapp.com/
4. Kaleidoscope is not really a git-specific app, but it is a pretty GUI client for diff’ing. Recently updated, the new version now supports 3-way-diff, image diff, folder digg and other enhancement. Recommended for casual as well as serious users. kaleidoscopeapp.com
To learn git, there is a free book written by Scott Chacon and published by Apress: Pro Git licensed CCBY. Printed version also available from Amazon. git-scm.com/book
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Summary: President Obama unexpectedly signed an executive Order on cybersecurity prior to tonight's State of the Union address. The Order precedes tomorrow's House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "new threats."
President Obama signed an executive order aimed at bolstering U.S. cybersecurity prior to tonight's State of the Union address. The Order precedes a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "new threats."
It is the government's latest move in attempting to deal with cyber threats, and the order has not undergone any public technical, rights-based, or privacy review.
By Violet Blue for Zero Day | February 13, 2013 -- 03:08 GMT (11:08 SGT)
Screenshot: www.zdnet.com/obama-signs-cybersecurity-executive-order-a...
“Hot on Google+: Obama signs cybersecurity executive order ahead of State Of The Union” #US #security
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