I want to see what the Monkey Webcam looks like personally. Perfect for spying on people.
Lovers of cute things (and the Japanese) will snatch up this USB MyPet Webcam that comes in both monkey and puppy models. Supporting up to 640×480 at 15 frames per second, this webcam is perfect for the girlfriend that hates tech.
Readers could also use it to spy on a victim who doesn’t know this is a webcam. A very dumb victim.
USB MyPet Webcam cranks the cuteness factor [uber gizmo]
[via Gizmodo]
Today brings us the latest offering from Google: Google Mars. Explore the red planet in three different ways: an elevation map shows color-coded peaks and valleys, a visible-imagery map shows what your eyes would actually see, and an infrared-imagery map shows the detail your eyes would miss. It is pretty nifty. Check it out!
While looking around the iTMS for some new podcasts to listen to today I came across one by Sasha (the DJ). Pretty cool, so far he’s just got two mixes up, both live mixes (which I love the best), but it’s a cool start. Definitely worth a check out if you’re a fan (and even if not).
Now I’m searching for any other DJs who have podcasts. This is also helping to inspire me more to do one of these myself.
I tried playing around with Pandora a bit more tonight. In the past I’d gotten frustrated with it by trying to get it to play techno. The problem is it has next to no techno and when it runs low on selections it seems to start pushing me towards listening to other things I don’t care for.
Tonight I started out with The Housemartins. Things started okay, but started to travel away from that style. I thought of other things that might fit my mood tonight and ended up adding The Style Council and The Blow Monkeys in for flavor. I think I fucked the station up because now it is playing Dead or Alive for me. Not what I was really going for.
One thing I’d love to see from Pandora is a more broad selection of ratings for songs you listen to. Like, I want to say “don’t only play this song, but don’t play anything by the band performing this song because I never want to hear them again. I hate it that much.” Just thumbs up or thumbs down doesn’t do it for me.
Overall I’m finding Pandora to be frustrating. It’s not playing stuff I don’t like, but it’s not playing stuff I’m not in the mood to hear (though it did just play some Mike Viola).
A few people have started doing this, so just to be trendy I’ve decided to do it also. Frappr is a site that lets you map where people are. For instance, if you click on the button below, it will take you to the page for this blog (with one whole person on it as of this posting). And then you can add yourself to the map. I’ve always kind of been curious about the readership of this blog. I know it isn’t huge, but there do seem to be a fair number of people who read it. So please, leave a marker for yourself (It only requires a name and a zip code, so no other personal information is required).
How much is my blog worth?
My blog is worth $10,726.26.
How much is your blog worth?
Damn, not bad, but I could do better I bet. Find out how much your blog is worth.
[via Don Park (who is worth much more than I)]
After listening to TWiT the other day I felt compelled to check out Tiki Bar TV, Forbidden cocktails in a swank pad. I can’t decide if it is genius or incredibly stupid, but I do know I can’t stop watching it. You should definitely give the Tiki Bar a visit.
A month ago I posted about 101 things in 1001 days. I started my list (and am nowhere close to 101), but then I ran into this site called 43 Things. It is the same kind of idea, but the site will keep track of the things you want to do, tag them, see what things other people want to do (which is a big help in coming up with ideas). Check it out.
I started an experiment today on note taking. I always have a tons of things I want to do/try, tons of things I have to do, and just lots of random information I’d like to keep track of. In the past I’ve tried all kinds of things text files (which I still use somewhat). But was thinking of new ways to organize. In the end I thought of using a Wiki and stumbled onto MoinX.
For those not in the know, a Wiki is a web environment that allows fairly easy creation of web pages without having to know HTML. It also makes it easy to put in placeholders for where you want new pages to be. If you haven’t seen Wikipedia you should check it out for a good example of a Wiki.
MoinX is a standalone version of a Wiki called Moin Moin set up to run on OS X. You run it and you get a blank Wiki all set to start editing. Pretty slick. So far I’ve just got pages for general ToDos and to start my list of 1001 Things. We’ll see how it progresses.
