Aye Mak Sicur

Found this on YouTube—a video of someone (badly) playing through the opening level in Marathon Infinity. I made this level and the accompanying textures in 1996 while drinking way too much Coke and listening to Portishead. The music definitely influenced the textures.

Update: Yes! Portishead’s new album!

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Audio & Video in Webkit

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No Flash on your iPhone? No problem. The WebKit team is hard at work implementing the WhatWG Audio and Video elements. This, combined with SVG and Canvas should make the platform fairly decent (if a bit slow) for games.

Google and ye shall receive. Spec.

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Cables, cables everywhere

I decided to go through the Box today. The Box is actually 4 distinct boxes and a duffel bag. The box has been accumulating bits of electronic gear for the better part of a decade, and it was time for a come-to-jesus.

Treasures found in the Box:

• A/V cables. All of them. I could wire the Fillmore with the metric shit ton of wires the Box produced. You name it, I got it. RCA, TOSlink, quarter-inch, stereo, mono, 1/8th inch, sub-1/8th inch, component, RGB, RCA to 1/8th inch, RCA to 1/4 inch, splitters, elbow joints, pink & green computer audio cables, adapters.
• 22 power cords, including 2 vintage Apple power cords from the Bondi-blue era.
• Misc power bricks, feat. The hulking UK 220v Nokia adapter and his pal the Canon Ixus/Elph AC adapter circa 2001.
• 4 mobile phones, with devices from Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and some off-brand T-Mobile shit making an appearance.
• Misc adapters, car-chargers, headset cables for aforementioned phones.
• VGA cables, and one DVI cable. One baker’s dozen.
• SCSI cables: 50-pin to 50-pin, 25-pin to 50-pin and 25-pin to 25-pin.
• A bunch of 100MB ZIP disks, with various files and software, mostly Mac OS 8 era.
• 1 vintage Apple Adjustable Keyboard, complete with original Marathon sticker circa 1994.
• Marathon 1 CD-ROM. Accelerated for Power Macintosh!
• Ethernet cables. Lots.
• A set of really-short ethernet cables (5-inch, 1-foot, etc).
• 1 USB/VGA/audio 4-port KVM switch. Trick!
• All cables for said KVM switch, neatly zip-tied.
• Caller-ID box from Bell Atlantic.
• USB cables, of every flavor. Mostly still shrink-wrapped.
• Coax (cable) cables. In all lengths, shapes and sizes.
• Adapter cables for Bang & Olufsen gear. Now I can connect this vintage piece of art to my iPod!
• 1 Pentium II CPU (OEM).
  

Rarer were the devices:

• 1 Bondi-blue G3 tower.
• 1 Newton.
• 1 Apple prototype tablet Mac.
• 1 Game Boy Advance, with original batteries (I think it actually got less play time than my PSP).
• 1 PSP.
• 1 last-generation ADB Wacom tablet, with 2 styluses.
• 1 Apple-branded external SCSI hard drive. 850 MB, yeah!
• 1 Iomega ZIP drive, including AC adapter and SCSI cable.

In the non-electronic category:

• 1 pair chopsticks
• My first California driver’s license from January 2000. I want to smack that look off my face too.
• 1 golf ball.
• Old photos, business cards and greeting cards.
• Mix tapes!

So the lot will be going to Goodwill next week. If anyone wants a KVM, an Apple prototype or really really loves SCSI, make an offer.

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Flash Video Downloader

(via TUAW)

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WebKit

This post composed entirely in the shiny new Safari 3.0 browser, part of Leopard. A couple minor things are left to get working, but overall, I’d say the outlook’s good for full Vox support. Hooray!

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Just ran across this little gem: Perian, an open-source QuickTime codec for a few of those other formats that QT chokes on.

Perian enables QuickTime® application support for additional media types including:

• AVI and FLV
• 3ivX, DivX, Flash Screen Video, MS-MPEG4, Sorenson H.263, Truemotion VP6, and Xvid
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio using A52Codec, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3

Woot.

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Resolution Independence

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At home, I have two Macs: A MacBook Pro for work/email/gaming, and a Mini in my living room for watching movies, listening to music, etc. I was looking for a way to control iTunes on the Mini (it will have the large library as soon as I can de-dupe and wrestle it off this NTFS partition) from my MacBook and came across this extremely handy (and open-source to boot) OS X app:

ITRC

iTunes Remote Control (iTRC)

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Um, China to Alaska to Indiana (to California)? There must be some efficiency here that I'm not seeing.

Tracking number 9 Ship date Oct 30, 2006 Estimated delivery Nov 2, 2006 10:30 AM		Reference   Destination SAN FRANCISCO, CA Service type IP Direct Distribution Weight 4.8 kgs.
	Status In transit

Date/Time

Activity

Location

Details

Nov 1, 2006

4:12 AM

In transit

INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Oct 31, 2006

11:46 PM

Arrived at FedEx location

INDIANAPOLIS, IN

1:59 PM

Departed FedEx location

ANCHORAGE, AK

11:50 AM

Arrived at FedEx location

ANCHORAGE, AK

Oct 30, 2006

7:15 PM

Picked up

SHANGHAI CN

Package received after FedEx cutoff

7:15 PM

Left origin

SHANGHAI CN

5:40 PM

Package data transmitted to FedEx

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My prediction for WWDC tomorrow morning? The Mac Pro in a cube enclosure. Likelyhood? Probably just wishful thinking.

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