] StripeSnoop Documentation

I've had some folks that at meet in San Diego @ E-Tech contact me about working on Stripe Snoop. So I went ahead a finally starting using Doxygen. Its like javadoc on crack. Anyway, while all the functions are not documented yet, the results are impressive.

Doxygen Docs for Stripe Snoop Development

You can sum up college radio in 5 words:
Dead Air. um. Dead Air.
And now, an hour of chanting

Strong Bad : College Radio

] "All I know is it seems like a good idea to get a
] sedentary animal moving," said Sid Cannon, the vice
] president of Boise, Idaho-based Conveyor Engineering, a
] company that designs heavy-duty conveyor systems used in
] mining and has offered to build Maggie's treadmill.
]
] "I figured that we put rocks on our conveyors that are as
] big as an elephant, and a treadmill is basically a
] conveyor, so building one would be no big deal."
]
] It has turned out not to be that easy.

Big wheels keep on turning...

CNN.com - Alaska zoo elephant to get treadmill

] A getopt library compatible with GNU-getopt, but
] distributed with a BSD license, and also supports
] DOS-style commandline parsing.

Free Getopt - BSD Licensed getopt.c

] NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the
] activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy,
] both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a
] "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is
] available (the usual information such as date of birth, a
] biography, and other essential facts.)
]
] But it mostly exists to document the connections between
] people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's
] otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by
] examining the crowd that person has been hanging out
] with.
]
] Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of
] creative works by the people in the database, including
] their books, films, and recordings.

Soylent productions, the folks behind Rotten, have a kind of IMDB for everyone site going on. I am surprised by the quality and breadth of the database. Good times

NNDB: Tracking the entire world

] It's a cheap but astoundingly functional
] underwater robot capable of recording sonar pings and
] retrieving objects 50 feet below the surface. The four
] teenagers who built it are all undocumented Mexican
] immigrants who came to this country through tunnels or
] hidden in the backseats of cars. They live in sheds and
] rooms without electricity. But over three days last
] summer, these kids from the desert proved they are among
] the smartest young underwater engineers in the country.

Wired has an awesome 5 page article about 4 illegal, former gang member high school students who were taught engineering and came in #1, beating MIT's team, in a national underwater robotics competition.

Oh yes, we must stop the flow of these horrible Mexicans, that pick our fruit, clean our toilets, and hack awesome robots.

Poor high school beats MIT in Robotics Contest!

... the purpose of my first or 2nd program in an new language is to bend/circumvent a law of some kind?

With Virgil's lecture on Datamining (complete with Cat Schwatz topless), and a shakey but growing knowledge of Perl, my global jacking of content-that-probably-wasn't-meant-to-be-indexed begins.

Disk is cheap and my Downstream is idle... I should have most of the Internet by Thursday!

] Summary
] Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features
] excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR
] control, and recording back to the camera. It captures
] video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV
] and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

Linux Video Editing

] PingPongPlus is a digitally enhanced version of the
] classic ping-pong game. It is played with ordinary,
] un-tethered paddles and balls, and features a "reactive
] table" that incorporates sensing, sound, and projection
] technologies.

MIT acoustic triangulation project

MIT Tangible Media Group | Projects - PingPongPlus

] You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it,
] but it sure helps.

I started a new project (shit I have too many...) that involves triangulation. This serves as a nice intro into some of the problems with triangulation (ie syncing clocks, moving sources, clock drift, etc).

Granted my application will not need atomic clocks, but you need a really fast sampling time when the object is only a couple inches from your sensors.

GPS Explained