A. Birch Steen spots Willy Wonka in an unexpected place.
Noted
NYT: Star Trek Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital Video. Now Playing to Wired to the NYT.
Shed
Readersheds.co.uk, in which the gentle mens folk of Granbretagne share views and opinions on a ‘shedload’ of one another’s garden sheds.
Treed
Well, after a couple weeks using the kindly-provided Nokia 6600 I find myself really, really missing the Treo and getting it fixed or getting a new one has clumb plumb up my list. Let’s hope my cell provider refrains from the kind of fuckery recently inflicted on Agent Cooper.
ChatFX
ChatFX adds a miscellany of video effects to iChat.
I actually pitched a similar concept to a video-oriented software producer about two years ago but nothing came of it. The specific possibility I see for software such as this is not so much the predictable, silly uses of it. I see the possibility of adding an additional layer of composed meaning to the videoconference interaction. I visualize participants adapting cinematic techniques to the image – zooms, jumpcuts, wide-screen ratios, moody slow pans and the like.
Headdress for OS X
Headdress for OS X: Simplifying desktop web development. (thanks, Tom, and congrats on the anniversary!)
This looks like another one-click, local-LAN only Apache configurator widget. Where O where is the live, world-facing implementation?
Salumi
R. W. Apple in the NYT takes a crack at Salumi, to which i was happy to bring my parents and Viv last week. Yummmm.
Wet Lens
Old camera? A dunk might make it new again.
Rat trap
Combimouse – Combination Keyboard and Mouse, via Things. Cool or absurd? Let’s split the difference.
Out there
Lindsey (or is it?) explains how she came to leave Chit-town.