Adam Lindsay

Joe Cocker, subtitled

Myxdup

I'm really enjoying some fortuitous Myxdup results:


Bre's History Hacker Trailer and Don't Let's Start:

The Mellotron meets the Amen break:

And ROFLCon meets Soulja Boy (which probably surpasses the original video for interesting editing):

Helena vs Death Cab for Cutie vs... Death Cab for Cutie!

An update

If anyone is out there, reading this, note that my main blog/domain at http://lindsay.at/blog/ is currently undergoing some NIC/Registrar difficulties and the domain name is in limbo. http://atl.soup.io covers the majority of what I do.

Because I know it will be useful for some of you out there....

http://duckingiphone.com/

Helpful instructions to undo some overly restrictive autocorrection.

I Met the Walrus

"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message."

(Via)

Assemblage

While, fundamentally, this is nothing different from a new soundtrack to an old film, like what Giorgio Moroder did to Metropolis, it feels fresher than that.

Mac follow-up

First, if you have a fuzzy screen, I could suggest a DVI Cable, e.g.:
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4FDQWS

And two menu-bar utilities really help monitor my Mac's performance:
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
http://www.orange-carb.org/SBM/

I try to keep things as minimal as possible, but I like to replace Apple's battery monitor with the above "Slim Battery Monitor", and at the very least I keep an eye on memory usage and network throughput with MenuMeters.

Fantastic London Photos

The Big Picture, a photoblog from the Boston Globe online, currently has
a bunch of really striking nighttime aerial photos of London.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/london_from_above_at_night.html

Natural language in and around the web

I've been letting these links pile up:

• Visualisation strategies is a well-regarded review of current language/text document visualisation techniques.
• YouTube Comment Snob uses some simple but effective text processing techniques to filter out irrelevant/uninformed/unwanted YouTube comments.
• StupidFilter looks to be a more ambitious open-source attempt to do similar things on a more global basis.

The point here? Lots of people are getting interested and informed about basic natural language processing techniques.