beatworm.co.uk
24/02/2010
Ocean robot ‘plans experiments’: The Gulper AUV, using an embedded software engine called ‘T-Rex’, can navigate autonomously, and make planning decisions about how best to schedule its task list of experiments.
23/01/2010
Combined New Pornographers and St. Vincent News
That A.C. Newman, he has an enviable work ethic. New TNP album is due May 4th!. I presume that’s a USA release date.
Rather excitingly, the recording sessions featured St Vincent, Will Sheff, and slightly less excitingly, the Dap-Kings horns, and Zach Condon. The album title is ‘Together’.
The New Pornographers are due to play this year’s Primavera Sound, although I suspect I will be giving it a miss this time around.
Child’s play
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to figure out, but PhotoBooth is amusing for babies.
22/01/2010
Pixel Qi: Amidst all the talk of OLED and speculation about colour e-ink, this modal hybrid display might be quietly revolutionary.
IPL 2010 to broadcast live on YouTube: Google to be exclusive broadcaster for two years. The times they are a changin’.
21/01/2010
Misa Digital Guitar MIDI controller: No strings, plastic molded body, 24 frets, touch interface, linux kernel, open source software stack.
01/01/2010
Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans: fluid drag from animal motion could be as responsible as wind or tides for mixing the world’s oceans.
26/12/2009
GNEVE: An inevitable addition to the available range of of digital video editing tools.
14/12/2009
Octopus snatches coconut and runs: Amazing video footage of tool use by octopuses.
12/12/2009
Airport command line
There’s a handy little command line tool nestled away inside Apple’s system WiFi framework.
Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport
It doesn’t come with a man page, but --help will print a usage guide.
