10 things to do for free in Tokyo
The excellent PingMag is running an article on things you can do in Tokyo without money…
click to go to the pingmag.jp-article
10 things to do for free in Tokyo
Not that I’m Tokyo-based or anything, but somehow an article like this has some kind of romantic value about it, like “just imagine being/living there” (and before you start asking questions about me being in a romantic mood or such, no, I’m not in love, thanks for not asking ;-)) It’s more like “Imagine my surroundings are totally different all of a sudden” and somehow I don’t think they could be more different or alien while still in a civilized/urban place than living in Tokyo, that’s all…
related:
manholes of Japan
panda tour!
so i never knew panda’s travelled, but obviously they do
and it looks like they’re having a great time
look at their pics!
oh and chris the little pain in the buttocks demanded a credit for giving me this link so here credit happy now!?
haven’t had enough pandacuteness?
be sure to play PANDADVENTURE!
enjoy! :D
a $100 powerbook bought from a hooker
VonGuard is running a nice little story on his blog on how he got his hands on his current(but not so current ;-)) G4 Powerbook…
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The main attraction to the powerbook above imho is the fact it’s personalized in a major way and it’s got a story to die for… :-)
Here’s another personalized powerbook I came across last BarCamp in Amsterdam:
click to go to the corresponding image in my gallery
And I started putting stickers on my own (already highly personalized) iBook as well…
click to go to the corresponding image in my Flickr photoalbum
Now, for those of you out there who are getting the new MacBook, be a hero and personalize it! It’s not a museumpiece and for plain MacBooks everyone can visit it’s local AppleStore… so there!
(*^_^*)
the first webserver - DO NOT POWER DOWN!!
Wikipedia has a nice entry about the world’s first webserver. A machine originally used by Tim Berners-Lee, the granddaddy of the World-Wide Web as we now know it.
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Today, this machine can be found at CERN’s public museum, Microcosm
I’m pleased to see somehow the first webserver is a NeXTcube, a machine based around Motorola’s 68030 CPU at 25MHz. In terms of performance it’s quite similar to my own little home-webserver, a Mac LC475 with a 68040 at 33MHz… and that one’s still running, for over a year now! It goes down quite often, I haven’t solved that yet (bad memory perhaps), but I don’t care that much about the downtime… It’s a fun little machine, still poking around quite happily ;-) You can find it here (please don’t F5 on the page, when you do that a couple of times, it can’t keep up for a while lol!)
more on NeXT:
NeXTcube brochure!
NeXTcube (lowendmac.com)
at geektechnique:
NeXT cube mod
NeXT Fans give up the ghost
Sun and Apple almost merged
Euh?
credit (I just thought it was an appropriate image… :-)
Sun and Apple almost merged three times – Bill Joy The Register
When I just spotted the headline I thought “euh? Sun and Apple?” But when you think of it…
Many Silicon Valley observers have long seen links between Sun and Apple. Both companies make slick, pricey hardware and are counter-punchers in their respective markets. They also have charismatic CEO figures and strong anti-Microsoft streaks.
Well, merged or not, I like ‘m both a lot :Dehrensenf - fernsehen
I just came across ehrensenf.de – internet TV, because they appeared in my log-files. It seems my ipod bicycle charger is in today’s show. :-)
It all seems quite similar to what they did on Mobuzz TV the other day… the formula is almost the same, a nice girl, a camera and some freaky internet-items (of which I’m one… ;-)). I do like the fact that it’s vlogged in English, Spanish and German now although I’m not so sure this vlogging is going to be the next big thing (but maybe I’m just being skeptical (no offence and in all due respect though)). Keep on vlogging! ;-)
click to go to ehrensenf.de
click to go to the video-page
typedrawing! :D
going through my old bookmarks i found this site
now i don’t think my love for graphic design and typography is totally unknown, but i think everyone will quite enjoy this.
so get creative and amaze yourself :D
distellamap: game code becomes beautiful
click to go to distellamap
Like any other game console, Atari 2600 cartridges contained executable code also commingled with data. This lists the code as columns of assembly language. Most of it is math or conditional statements (if x is true, go to y), so each time there’s “go to” a curve is drawn from that point to its destination.
wow
If you like this (like I do), don’t forget to check out:
Sun's 1994 StarFire project/video
Through Chandan’s blog (which I found because of this excellent concept) I came across Sun’s Starfire project, A Vision of Future Computing from 1994.
Sun Microsystem’s Starfire project drew together the talents of more than 100 engineers, designers, futurists, and filmakers in an effort to both predict and guide the future of computing.
One of the things that came out of this was:
Starfire, the Movie, showing a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the year 2004.
I just watched the film (which you can download here (231 MB)) and it’s a nice view from the past into the future ;-)
Just look how happy this woman gets, when she uses SUN hardware all day…
(*^-^*)
Anyways, I can recommend the film. It also reminds me I still should put some time into Looking Glass, for no reason I never dove into that somehow… so, that’s back on the list!
Program and control a robot, right now!
There’s a nice project on MAKE:blog
HOW TO – Program a robot and control it on the web right now!
“Before you roll your eyes and tell me about all the other robots you’ve seen on-line and at robot shows, let me tell you why this one is different. You have to program it, or it won’t do anything. And by that I mean you ssh into the robot, write a program, compile it on the robot, and run it on the robot.”
BTW, compiling is done by typing ‘make’ :D
the robot takes some, eeeuhm, strange pics (when I was looking at least)
Having fun by the means of SSH… (geeks only)
