http://digitaldetritus.org The flotsam, jetsam and ligan that washes up out of my head. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again I've submitted a photo to JPG magazine for publication. The theme this time is Geometry. Check out JPG Magazine and vote for my photo http://digitaldetritus.org/2008/07/03/another-submission-for-publication/ I Love Roller Derby!! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWbMdqTBaE[/youtube] http://digitaldetritus.org/2008/04/04/because-it-rocks/ http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/12/17/194/ http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/11/19/ddg-december-8th-bout/ [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2oJgsGR6c[/youtube] http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/11/14/just-watch-it-and-think/ http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/11/09/190/ I just spotted this thanks to Violet Blue. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTwrnKb61Q[/youtube] http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/10/08/hell-yeah-jerry-sanders/ You're Ulysses! by James Joyce Most people are convinced that you don't make any sense, but compared to what else you could say, what you're saying now makes tons of sense. What people do understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once brilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/08/31/youre-ulysses-by-james-joyce/ popcorn schwag: chock full of goodness Originally uploaded by colinj. I actually took this photo last October, I was reminded about this today because someone asked if they could use this photo for an article about the city of Seattle banning microwave popcorn in the courthouse. Thank you for sharing your ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/06/14/popcorn-schwag-chock-full-of-goodness/ I am a professional computer nerd. That's what I do. To most people I'm sure that it seems like folks working in the information technology world are pretty much all the same. We all speak a strange language. We have the latest gadgets before other folks. And we all think ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/06/06/inter-nerd-cultural-divides/ I think a lot about free software and social change and what follows came to me on the way to work today. I've never been a mainstream guy, at least not as mainstream as some folks. Because of this I know a lot of people who work in different aspects of ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/05/25/free-software-and-social-change/ Dance Derby Girls! Dance! Originally uploaded by colinj. Come and vote for this picture to be published in JPG magazine. A year ago if you'd asked me if I would ever submit a photograph that I had taken to a magazine I would have ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/05/18/submitting-a-photograph/ There are more than a few companies out there that are using Linux (and other FOSS) to drive their products. Two examples are Cowon and their PMP the A2 and Infrant (now owned by NetGear) and their ReadyNAS products (small network attached storage devices). As far as I know while ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/05/17/helping-hardware-vendors-to-go-open-source/ Swirly Tube Taken with my Holga. Modified by ImageMagick. I know that animated gifs aren't loved by everyone, but I like them. Each frame is swirled by a power of 2 from 2 to 512. I am a professional nerd. http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/05/09/swirly-whirly/ tube Originally uploaded by colinj. After a hiatus from writing anything here I figured I'd start back up by posting a photo taken with my Holga. Holga's are a very cheap camera that use (by design) 120 or medium format. This particular picture is of one of ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/04/27/me-and-my-holga/ Since my current fascination with video delivery over the interweb doesn't seem to be waning at all, here's another Farm and Wilderness video. This time I'm trying it from Veoh. Yet another video streaming site. So far I think I like the Google Video embedded player the best. http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/02/12/yet-more-fun-with-video/ Before I was a full time computer nerd I worked at summer camps and the best by far were those run by Farm & Wilderness. I worked at a wonderful camp for teens called Tamarack Farm. They produced videos ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/02/08/summer-camp/ My good friend Pat just pointed me at this and I think that it's brilliant. It makes me smile. This is the kind of thing that makes me happy to be a geek. I'm sure that this sounds pretty damn sappy but it's things like this that remind me why I'm a ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/02/05/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ Many years ago I took a class on evolutionary biology and one of the things that we talked about was Horizontal Gene Transfer. This is a totally cool idea, basically viruses can move DNA between species, plants to animals, fish to mammals. You can read more about it here: Does ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2007/01/30/horizontal-gene-transfer-not-just-the-best-pick-up-line-ever/ Yesterday I read this article on Remote-controlled sharks on Boing Boing. I haven't found something this upsetting in quite some time. Seems those wizards of science at Boston University have done some pretty interesting (and frightening) research. Please allow me to sum things up. They've wired the shark's brain in such ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/12/15/because-dolphins-and-sea-lions-are-just-to-cute/ Here's a video I shot with a modified CVS single use digital video camera. I modified the camera by adding a USB cable so I can remove the videos myself. [youtube]fA-nTFQWXN0[/youtube] This one is called Riding the Orange Line. Basically, it's my morning commute. http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/12/14/fun-with-youtube/ evening rush Originally uploaded by colinj. It seems like the more pictures I take the more fascinated I get with the process. The sky outside was a really cool set of colors earlier this evening so I decided to try and get some pictures. Shooting out ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/11/22/street-in-motion/ yo lo que quiero es un burrito... Originally uploaded by C-Monster. Not only does this look like a great burrito, the description is a great explanation of what a real burrito is and what is wrong with the east coast idea of a burrito. Right now I'm really missing Albuquerque. http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/11/13/yo-lo-que-quiero-es-un-burrito/ This is the kind of story that I feel moved to speak about but I'm not at all sure what to say. I want to be able to put this kind of thing in perspective but how do you do that. Over 40 years ago the buddhist monk Thích Quảng ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/11/08/chicago-war-protester-sets-himself-on-fire-and-dies/ This just in from the folks over at Boing Boing. Seems that the Boy Scouts are now on the side of the MPAA and the RIAA. Boing Boing: Respect Copyright merit patch from LA Scouts design This tacky monstrosity is the "Respecting Copyrights merit patch" that Los Angeles Boy Scouts can receive ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/10/21/boing-boing-respect-copyright-merit-patch-from-la-scouts-design/ I'm not at all sure what to say after reading this article. In my dreams this is the way that every community would deal with any sort of terrible event. I'm speechless for two reasons, because of my incredible respect for the Amish community and how they handled this and ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/10/10/alternet-what-the-amish-are-teaching-america/ Just in case I haven't said it recently enough, Violet Blue is my hero. She's getting ready to head off to the Podcast and Portable Media Expo which she accurately describes as "like The Learning Annex Donald Trump Real Estate Wealth Expo, but for podcasting." You can read all about ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/09/15/why-violet-blue-is-my-hero/ I have to say that I'm not all that surprised by this, seems that Google has hired the Washington DC lobbyist firm DCI to handle its lobbying. DCI is well known for such wonderful tactics as lying, astroturfing and push-polling to get what their clients want. Why doesn't this surprise me? ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/09/14/google-hires-underhanded-lobbyists/ Just for giggles, some maps. First the states that I have visited. I did limit this list to places that I have actually slept. create your own visited states map. My world travels are much less broad. create your own visited countries map. http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/09/13/places-ive-been/ I've always loved the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Chuck Jones has always had a very special place in my heart. One of my favorite memories about my brother and I has to do with a Warner Bros. cartoon, but that's another story altogether. So, I wanted to see how this whole ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/09/11/uh-oh-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/ Big thanks to the fine folks at Fleshbot for keeping me up to date on the hijinks in my home town. It seems that while robbing a second-hand clothing store one of the culprits insisted that the other give him a blow job. Let me say that again, they momentarily stopped ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/08/30/michigan-pair-blows-robbery-attempt-august-30-2006/ So I was thinking that my next project would be a picnic table as I think that would be very cool to build, but today I stumbled upon a great project, the Aldo Leopold bench. I think a couple of these would be great in so many ways. It looks cool, ... http://digitaldetritus.org/2006/08/20/my-next-project/