The Pillows are the band bihind the great soundtrack for the Gainax anime series FLCL. Here's a video I found on YouTube taken from a live performance.
Music you possibly, maybe, will not hear anyplace else, though there's always the chance that you might. MP3s stay up for a week, after which they are taken down to preserve bandwidth. I'm not able to take repost requests, as they are too time-consuming.
You are a stag, a male deer. So are the other players. You meet each other in an endless forest on the internet. The setting is idyllic, the atmosphere peaceful. You communicate with one another through sounds and body language.
Continuing my series of queries about how "Web 2.0" companies used databases, I asked Cal Henderson of Flickr to tell me "how the folksonomy model intersects with the traditional database. How do you manage a tag cloud?"
A YCombinator in Europe? Paul Graham seems to think it can't be done: "Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of American-ness. It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or Eng
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Now here's a list of really great anime series I would love to have ^_^
Although I never watched all episodes for none of series given bellow, I do remember watching some episodes at AniPop or through DVD rips passed on from friends... and believe me, some of them were really cool!
I guess I've been away from IRC channels and the anime scene for too long, but there are really some great shows out there. I haven't had any luck downloading these titles through BitTorrent, but if any of you kind readers have any idea from where I can get them...
Inu Yasha (Here's the 1st Episode)
Vandread (Just an excerpt from the 1st episode)
Angelic Layer (Here's the 1st episode)
Tsukikage Ran (Just the opening credits) Although I only saw the first 3 episodes, this is one of the coolest things I can remember watching. It's the female version of Rurouni Kenshin... a female samurai and her chinese friend who journy around japan drinking sake and ending up in trouble.
Comic Party (Here's the 1st episode)
Koko Wa Greenwood (Episode 4 preview)
Ayashi no Ceres (Here's the 1st episode)
Jubei-chan (Just an excerpt)
Gatekeepers (A promo)
FLCL (Another promo)
Suzuka (Here's episode 1)
Ayatsuri Sakon (Here's an excerpt of the 1st episode)
Top wo Nerae 2 (Gunbuster II, and Here's episode 1)
Panda Z (Here's the 2nd Episode)
Full Metal Panic (Just a trailler)
Yakitate! Japan (The 1st episode)
Ichigo Mashimaro (Here's a prologue to the series)
A couple of days ago we had a forum entry on how to create badges, like those used on Bartelme Design to indicate new entries. So here is a short description of how to create them using Adobe Photoshop.
Over the millennia, many mathematicians have hoped that mathematics would one day produce a Theory of Everything (TOE); a finite set of axioms and rules from which every mathematical truth could be derived. But in 1931 this hope received a serious blow: K
I'm looking for new anime series to watch, and any recommendations you may have are gratefully received in the comments section.
Meanwile, just found the first episode of "Paranoia Agent" down on YouTube. This series came highly recommended from some friends of mine, and after checking this video I can tell why. Check it out bellow.
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Terry Jones started i-D Magazine in 1980, following a five year stint as art director of British Vogue and freelance art director for German Vogue, Donna Magazine, and Sportswear International. Jones’ interest in Punk, Teddy, and New Romantic subculture
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"It was definitely murder - but was it art?" So begins one of my all-time favorite albums, David Bowie's "Outside". I was just dusting out my CD collection and guess what crawled out of the closet.
This was originally intended to be the first album in a series, hence the "1" on the album cover, but the continuation of this saga never came to pass.
As you might have guessed by now, I just love this album... the booklet, the artwork, the db logo. Everything is perfect, and years from the original release, it still keeps its original intensity (for me, this is even better than the Berlin records "Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger"... well, maybe not "Heroes" ^_^)
Perhaps better remembered from movies like "Se7en" or "Lost Highway", the record tells the tale of detective Nathan Adler investigating the "art-ritual murder" of Baby Grace Blue. On the booklet we can read "the diary of Nathan Adler or a non-linear gothic drama Hyper-cycle." Pretentious? Well, perhaps... But in my head, this album became synonymous with the 90's, and with all the hits and misses that connotes.
The music is a startling mixture of electronics and pop/rock, featuring lots of experimentalism (yes, Brian Eno gave a hand on production). As for the lyrics, we get the usual "magik" stuff so typical of Bowie:
...It's happening now The crazed in the hot-zone The mental and diva's hands The fisting of life To the music outside...
...Toll the bell Pay the private eye All's well 20th century dies...
...All the majesty of a city landscape All the soaring days in our lives All the concrete dreams in my mind's eye All the joy I see thru these architect's eyes...
Guess this CD is now gonna stay on my stereo for a few more days! And now, here's a live video of "Outside" from a German TV show.
During my talk at Canada on Rails I mentioned that I was working on a Scriptaculous cheat sheet, at the behest of none other than Thomas Fuchs himself. (Actually it was more a teasing-slash-friendly challenge situation than a behest, as such, but I digres
Have you ever used rand() or Math.Random() or System.Random or java.util.Random? You could do a lot better. Did you know that these use one of the slowest and least random algorithms available? In this article, I provide C/C++, Java, and C# implementation
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After "The Passion of the Christ", another movie about a Jew with a fanatical cult following, Mel Gibson produced a documentary about Lenoard Cohen entitled "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man".
Part documentary and part concert film, the movie centers around the January 2005 Australian tribute concert, and also includes behind-the-scenes action and interviews in which "Cohen himself reveals his trademark wry humor and soulful intensity, using his own artwork, poetry and personal collection of photographs to reflect upon his colorful past and his creative process," according to a press release.
For years I kept a strange secret. I shared this silence with two hundred students. Yesterday I ran into one of those students. For a brief moment it all rushed back.
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Now this is a really cool hack, and it runs on both IE and FireFox. As you may have noticed, Blogger does not allow for <script> tags inside posts. However, a workaround is to use DOM scripting and the JavaScript eval() function, in order to execute the code inside some other tag. Just place something like this in the HEAD part of your Blogger template:
<script type="text/javascript"> function loadCodePosts() { var c, i; if (document.all) c = document.all.tags('code'); else if (document.getElementsByTagName) c = document.getElementsByTagName('code'); var junk = /^\s*\46lt;\133\133CDATA\133|]]\46gt;\s*$/g; for( i=0; i < c.length; i++ ) { try { eval( c[i].innerHTML.replace( junk, '' ) ); } catch (err) { }; } } </script>
Also on your template, place the loadCodePosts() function on the onload property of the BODY tag:
<body onload="loadCodePosts()">
Finally, on your posts, just do something like this in order to include JavaScript code:
<code style="display:none"> Your JavaScript code! </code>
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Here comes "The Pains," by me, John Damien Sundman, with illustrations by Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming, known to some k3vvl kiDz on teh intarweb as Sir Cheeseburger Brown. Feel free to read, save, print, copy and share among your friends.
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Just doing some tests with image overlays, but I guess this is harder than what I first expected.
var mapp = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map-picos")); mapp.addControl(new GSmallMapControl()); mapp.setCenter(new GLatLng(43.20616451368453, -4.851084790347035), 12); mapp.setMapType(G_SATELLITE_MAP); var icon = new GIcon(); icon.image = "http://static.flickr.com/45/130698232_15d0fa6fc8.jpg"; var point = new GLatLng(43.20616451368453, -4.851084790347035); mapp.addOverlay(new GMarker(point, icon));
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