A dream longtime coming: the ability to use your phone's camera to scan barcodes and then scrape all kinds of APIs to deliver data about the product. Be sure and watch the video demo.
It's interesting to me that the APIs he scrapes for data aren't Google's. I was shocked to find out that Google's replacement for their excellent Search API was a very light-weight AJAX search widget last month. I am hoping Google releases the real Search API at their developer conference this month.
thnx Brian White.
This HD time-lapse of a Cinco de Mayo carnival is gorgeously synched to music. Reminds me of my friend Andy's clam-bake. They are both very artfully done. twittered by brownpau
On the other side of the scale is this soundless video of people lined-up for hours to buy a 23-cent pizza.
Both videos are terribly fascinating to me, for different reasons of course.
Oh hey, our band has an album coming out. Here's a pre-release, red vinyl 7" with a cover designed by Omar Lee of Omar Lee fame.
May 2nd, Baltimore: "One of the juveniles held his hand in his pocket as if armed and demanded money. The student began speaking French and pretended that she did not understand their demands. The juveniles subsequently walked away from the victim and continued northbound on Guilford Ave." found on andrew pile's blog
Since I don't explicitly write much biographical posts, I figure once in a while won't be too bothersome. I think the last time I updated my site that way it was the night before Amber and I were married. Since then we've been to Fiji [best vacation ever] and then got down to baby conceiving [success!].
Another life-changing event happened just yesterday: we bought a car. We'd been carless for over a year. While I LOVE taking public transportation and walking a mile to catch a train to take me two miles to catch a bus to take me five miles into work every day, I'd prefer that my future son or daughter did not have to admit to friends twenty years from now that they had been born in the back of a taxi.
So now we have this car and well…I LOVE IT ZOMG!!!1! I think the thing that will change the most is that I can stay up a little later and sleep in a little later. It means my day isn't ruled by the bus schedule out of Sausalito and I can pick up all the crackers and yogurt my wife needs.
Also: bitchin' stereo.
Poor Abe still can't catch a break. This shirt celebrating President Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address did not do so well in the former Confederate States of America.
I love the stats feature on Woot and I want one of these shirts.
Why NYC's Iconic Pizza Is So Tough To Replicate found on kottke. Seriously, there is no good pizza in San Francisco. Whenever I go to NY I manage to get at least one slice of pizza from a random shop, and it's better than any pizza I've ever had in California.
If you think you know, please leave me a comment. You should know that I have been to Delfina, Arinell's, Little Star, and A16. (SF does make a god damn good burger though.)
Apologies, this story about a new logo rollout is not safe for people standing to your right. thnx matthew baldwin