• Jurassic Encounter Adventure Golf
  What's that doing there?
• Reverb Nation
• Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3
• Tweet Remote
  Solving that whole Twitter vs. blog problem.
• Opentape
• Semapedia.org:
• Phonelocator.mobi
  Locate your phone - locate your loved ones - realtime GPS tracking for Nokia S60 phones -

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Whores! by Betatester.
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Dave by Betatester.
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Super Combo by Betatester.
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Cool - if useless - scripts I collected and used over the years. Because it’s useless to have socks if you can’t find it.

• Barrack Slideshow
• Cash Register
• Featured Content Slider
• Ajax Slideshow
• Javascript Crossfader
• Ajax Demos, Editor
• Ajax Demos, FishEye
• FlickrMenu
• Styled Form Controls
• FreeStyle Menus
• JQuery Accordion
• JQuery ToolTip
• mcDropdown jQuery Plug-in
• LightBox JS
• JQuery News Ticker
• Live Thumbnail
• Magazine Layout
• Mollio Templates
• S5 Slideshow
• Slideshow
• Table Sorting
• Revolver Fast Image Rotation Engine
• Reflection JS
• Moving Title
• Mouse Sensitive

I gottabe more strict… Most of the effects are cross-browser, but from now on I’ll only collect jquery effects. make up your mind, heh?

One of my favorite peices from Siggraph this year was Wearable Forrest by Hiroki Kobayashi, Ryoko Ueoka and Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan.

This dress has LED lights embedded throughout that are audio responsive; they glow in response to the loudness of audio piped in from a remote forrest in Japan. There is a speaker in the dress where you can hear the sound of the forrest, and particularly the sound of the birds. There is also a button on the dress that plays a recording of a bird call in the forrest so that the birds will respond to it, and thus activate the dress.

There are some nice concepts in this work about connecting you to the environment, and feeling at one with nature, but I really just like the idea of there being a microphone and speaker just standing somewhere in the middle of a forrest. Even if you came across it, which would be an amazing enough visual in itself, the ignorance you would have of not knowing what was on the other end is a pretty powerful thing for me. Just so happens, its a dress.

I've become strangely addicted to blip.fm, which is a kind of a merging of Twitter and Last.fm. I assume more Last.fm related features will appear at a later date, but it's pretty well integrated with Twitter already.

As I expected my phone is frustrating many of my efforts at playing with any locative stuff so I've turned my attention to ping.fm [my beta invite finally appeared] which is a universal [well, almost] updating site where I can ping tweets, status updates to MySpace and Facebook [and many more] and update my blog, via e-mail, GTalk or various widgets. Again, not brilliant from the Viewty and I'm still not that sure it'll be much use to me apart from using it from a mobile device. If I can get to a PC I can update the other sites anyway. There is a mobile application as well but I was hoping to be able to send updates via SMS rather than launch something that needs a WAP connection. Dan Lane has come up with a workaround which I'm trying out now.

I've had a quick look at hellotxt as well but it doesn't offer Blogger updates. I'm now awaiting a Brightkite invite to see what that has to offer. It's not an updating service but still a bit of a mash-up of other social networking services by the looks of things.

Toying with the idea of going to see Video Games Live 2008. And wish I could stump up the cash to attend Microsoft Remix UK 08 in Brighton. Mind you, judging by my experience with the above tools I might be a bit out of my league there!

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Still recovering from The Stooges at Get Loaded on Clapham Common yesterday. I decided we should get there about 2.00 to avoid queueing which backfired a bit! Viv arrived with Kev about 1.30 [I think] and we called a cab which turned up after about 20 minutes and dropped us at the Windmill where we thought we'd have a quick drink at reasonable prices before we went in.

About ten minutes later we overhead someone mention the Soulwax were already on. As it seemed beyond the organisers abilities to publish any "on stage" times on their website [Wireless managed it] I took the running order to be as it was listed. Wrong! After about a 15 minute queue to get in and being mugged the usual £5.00 for a programme we located the Time Out tent [not where it was indicated on the programme]. We caught about the last ten minutes of their Nite Versions set which seemed to consist of them being augmented by a live drummer. But couldn't get into the tent so had to squint from the open sides. They were only allocated 50 minutes! In fact all of the sets were pretty short. Too many acts methinks.

So we wandered off to the main stage to see the The Hives who were pretty good given the time of day. It must be odd playing in daylight. Then we went back to the Time Out tent to see Mylo. Again pretty good although he seemed to insist on looping some tracks early on that made them sound like a CD skipping. We caught the end of Metronomy before Mylo came on as well... They were crap. We missed big chunks of Mylo's set by queueing ages for beer. £3.50 for a can of Carlsberg! Served up by women who who would have been more at home selling cakes at a village fete. Very poor. The rest of Mylo's set was accompanied by watching some dubious looking security guards randomly searching people for drugs. I assume they were official but they had no telephone numbers or anything other than a name and the word security on their shirts and ironically a couple of them had baseball caps on with ganja leaf motifs!. So that all went to a good home then. Most events I've been to at Clapham have had heavy handed security. There's no need. Amusingly a guy came up to us to ask if we saw what had happened to a couple of the blokes they had frisked. They had spotted the guards coming and given their stash to him and he wanted to give it back before he was picked on. As he had come over the fence he was doubly anxious!

The Gossip were awesome again, with their newly expanded line-up, and the tent was packed. They finished sharpish though as they were as keen to see the The Stooges as anyone else. So as soon as they heard they had started they did Standing In The Way Of Control and we all legged it to the other end of the field.

We managed to fight our way to middle of the crowd, but must have missed a few tunes although it was all get a bit hazy by then. There was a lot girlfriends on shoulders stuff going on in front of us so a group of us started pelting them with stuff till they got down. Childish I know but a laugh! Iggy is as lively as ever, for a 61 year old! I hadn't seen him for years and he was just as energetic. Fortunately he didn't show his arse this time, which isn't a pretty sight. The band were tight, the sound was good and we were all standing there in awe for a while just pointing and saying "It's the Stooges"!

Great day out apart form the beer prices and security. Needless to say we piled back to Kev & Karol's and drunk into the early hours. Hence the recovering... Off to the pub to watch Man Utd v Portsmouth in a mo though. Can't be any better than being at Fulham on Saturday to see Arsenal lose. Ha Ha Ha!

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本想奥运期间尽量避免去北京，结果奥运结束前的最后两天还是因为一些事去了一躺。我才发现原来和我想像的以及媒体渲染的局面感觉很不同。我在的这两天，北京安静得出奇，安静到了有点无聊的程度。不但车少了一半，因为单双号的控制，而且人也觉得是少了一半。

一些地方像我住的草场地，许多路口设立了检查证件的站点。这些站点都由几个戴着红袖章的老大爷大妈把守。但我还没看见过他们拦住谁来查证件，大多时候他们都是在聊天或织毛衣，所以感觉防范很足但没什么杀伤力。还看到不少巡警，保安，除了他们都换上了新制服外，跟平常的巡逻也没什么不同。

酒吧里狂欢的是外国人。在三里屯平时最旺的那条街上，我们在旁边摆摊的买了啤酒就站在街上看人。来来往往的老外也都像我们一样拿着大瓶装的燕京或青岛啤在街上走。我们的旁边站着一群看上去年龄不大的小孩，就十四五岁的样子，也人手一瓶啤酒地在聊天。他们手上的啤酒就像是他们自由的宣言，因为在美国和很多国家，在街上用酒精是非法的，而且也有喝酒的法定年龄。后来我们进了一个酒吧，里面的音乐很糟糕，但人群跳舞跳得正热。我正在有点发呆，突然一个外国女孩跑过来拉我的手想和我跳舞，我笑了下还是礼貌地甩开了她的手。也不是我不想跳，只是那氛围感觉有点太兴高采烈了，跳不起来。然后那女孩一下子爬上了小舞池中坚钢管上，一个人跳了起来，之后又站到了桌子上跳，尽情享受着周围的目光。我在想，中国不能说是一个完全自由民主的国家，但此时此刻又成了西方人“解放自我”的阵地。这个“自由”当然只是相对和有针对性的，在一个民主体制完善的国家，或许这种被解放的体验又难以寻找了。