Spectrum by Miguel Eedl

From mr. doob I found out about mr. Miguel Eedl. There doob releases JavaScript experiments every now and then, writes about that in his blog and is obviously a demoscene-nerd!

One simple but nice JavaScript demo 3D Waveform (HTML5) shows the waveform of one eedl song.

At one lovely evening at the pc I finally clicked on that link up there, listened to all the songs at eedl.es, then at his soundcloud profile. Listened up and down, picked some favorites.. and now I have it playing somewhat constantly.

Spectrum (look and hear above) has really taken a shine to me
haaaach this contrabass .. and all in all that crisp sound of the songs. Respect! I actually prefer phythmic music. Sound is secondary. Groove is essential.
Of course the eedl-sound won’t make a lot of asses shaking. Without that clear sound it’d be worth nothing. But I really like it somehow.

Short Story: Want a short link to a spot on google maps? Without a url-shortener service?

look it up at gmaps, get an about 200digit “link” from the upper right, throw away anything but http://maps.google.com/? the ll= and the z=-tags:

http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.662404,-73.972113&z=20

want a marker? Rightklick on a map and say “What’s here?”, get the link from upper right and do the same but with the q=-tag included:

http://maps.google.com/?q=40.662434,-73.972099&ll=40.662487,-73.972113&z=20

For that I made a small Autohotkey script to use with ac’tivAid.:

gmapURLShortener.ahk

If you are Autohotkey-able you could easily add an own hotkey to the script.. but … ;]

if you want the whole rant…: (more…)

By now I see those things all around!! But find ick jut

TramFace is baffled:

You can see this one at a box in the front right of a Berliner Niederflurstraßenbahn.

SpoonFace smiles at you:

Found at a drum break (yea!) at a practice last weekend. Must be some kind of rust.

SnowSkull looks directly into your soul:

Isn’t that a pretty clear 3/4 of a skull? Found at Oberbaumbrücke when I came back from Jimpster at the Watergate club. And right beside it: (really just recognised it) you can spot a horse with wings!! Or isn’t it a Unicorn? Ok, the horn is just greased backwards.

HauRuckIts2010 by ewerybody

At new years eve I somehow thought ok, I’m asked to bring some music… still 1,5h to go. Why not doing a mix? Said and done. Of course! it took much longer than planed. But now its here! Could be mixed a little better, here and there a little more tweaks.. but however. For the lack of time I’m actually pretty satisfied! have fun!

1. Stuffit – Filtre – Drive A…
2. Vincenzo – Frisco Hills Theme
3. Ursula 1000 – Samba 1000
4. Playin’ 4 The City – basement funk
5. Jazzanova – Atjazzanovâme
6. Martin Solveig – I’m A Good Man (Mousse T Breakbeat Mix)
7. H Foundation – New Funk Theory (Swag’s Unplugged Mix)
8. Trüby Trio – Universal Love (Tiefschwarz Remix)
9. Swirl People – Liar, Liar Pants On Fire
10. Der Dritte Raum – Swing Bop
11. LEO – The Greatest DJ
12. Nuspirit Helsinki – Honest (Jazzanova’s Honestly Yours Remix)
13. Siriusmo – Synthie
14. Slope – Want’ Choo Longa
15. Indeep – Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life
16. Owusu & Green – Nevermore (DJ T Dub)

Btw: I’m just checking out the soundcloud-player. The free account there only has 120min but should be enough for now. And with the player and all the functionality on soundcloud its probably already much better than just uploaded mp3, or zip upto rapidshare or sendspace or whatever … Or someone got a better idea?

Update: The list had some mistakes before. I just fixed it. Well-behaved as I am I now linked all records to discogs and put them in my collection. The H Foundation-one I just added myself and uploaded pictures.

I love “findWhenTyping”-stuff: You know the new (sllloooooow-ass) search bar in windows vista in the start-menu and in every explorer? (Yes the thing they somehow borrowed from osx..)
In Firefox for instance there is Tools>Options>Advanced>”Search for text when I start typing“. So on any website you can just hit some letter-keys and it finds the occurence.

And they have it in the Options>Application tab as well as in the about:config. Just like it should be: If there is an interface with a list: You just never ever know how long the list can be. Will it be 10 entries or 7000? … I just made this a paradigm myself:

It’s a list? Offer findWhenTyping!

because manual scrolling and seeking just sucks.

Finally I had a little time to build such a thing myself. In our companys Maya-Toolkit (sorry no link, seems offline now) we have a lot of list-dialogs. Actually we have loads of list-dialogs all over the place. But the Maya toolkit is the only spot (thanks to my lame-ass scripting only skills) where I can put my hands on.

exept from the obvious things:

• on keystroke: list content automatically shows matches only
• entering nothing shows all entries
• matching is non-case-sensitive
• completely keyboard driven – you “can” handle the dialog without the mouse.

I have some additions that I haven’t seen in other similar dialogs:

• a phrase that has does not match anything still shows the last matches – so if you have a spelling mistake the list doesn’t go empty. An empty list would be just useless.
• first entry is always selected – so you don’t have to extra select something if you already typed the right letters – just hit enter
• when entering an asterisk * the default asterisks around the *phrase* will be omitted – so you can write start* and it matches everything that begins with start but not with start somewhere within.

….

Ok. As I’m unable to finish this right now. I gonna just amend it with a video when I have something to show.

Yeeaa.. Shameless selfpromotion. But the Technical Director already blogged about it as well and personally we don’t have any benefits from it. But its just nice anyway:

Our fresh new Drakensang: River of Time will also be released as personalised Special Edition! which you are already able to preorder at Amazon. As you can read there:

• your name on the packaging
• one selfnamed ingame-item
• certificate with your name on it
• map made of cloth
• a game of cards
• poster
• soundtrack

Quite considerable I think! I’m looking forward to my deposit copy!! hehe

I just received the xBox newsletter. Usually I just scroll it over and throw it away. But now I put a click inbetween these two actions. It was a click on the “Watch trailer” Button for DJ Hero. Because I know Guitar Hero can be a lotta fun I’m wondering how the DJ pendant would perform…

But as I was at the website clicking on another trailer button they threw a shiny blue Install Microsoft Silverlight button at me!

Say what the shit?! I use Firefox 3.5, we have year 2009, there is HTML 5. We actually don’t need ANY plugin anymore to watch videos! So why whould I install a new plugin to just watch that darn trailer?!?!

And why does it take so long to get rid of that shit? I think one major video site should finally make the move towards HTML 5 videos.

Its about time!!

Thanks so much for this kent and claudi! It’s just my way to express how much I love you guys

So after these recently posted 2 lovely pictures this is my very own not photoshopped behind:

.. after this highly recommendable bike tour from berlin to liepnitzsee. It was so beautyful and really pleasant to ride it. So phat props to da Brandenburg-Ministry-Of-Traffic-Thingie or whoever is responsible for that we can enjoy these save and comfortable bike-routes. Yo!

Maybe I post some more eye-coaxing pictures later…

<3

These pictures were randomly shot just recently and there is of course no connection to my current feeling … I sweaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!

Found at the streetfestival at Mariannenplatz:
I don’t know where the tag is from but LIEBE means love in german.

(btw: I have pictures of the streetfestival at Mariannenplatz as well …)

And this is our current rearview in the new office at Alexanderplatz:

The only thing I modified were the numbers at the licence tag. Not that someone complains. Everything else is real! Nice wa?

Slightly delayed “song of the day”. But this one was definitely my sunday-song!! And a little bit today as well.. Oh man! I’d really like to have a real electro funk party like that.
Maybe there is something happening soon.

Maybe I do a breakdance version of d!os John ‘n John-smileys ..

Update: Video was gone. I just got another one embedded and trimmed it (Nerdcore-style) to 25pixel height. Unfortunately the good quality stereo sound is missing in this one huh? Ok here is another single version on youtube.