Princess Mononoke Grove
19-May-08
Changing the goal posts
19-May-08
Via dmorr.
The Rabbit’s-eye View
19-May-08
Via daemonwolf
It currently doesn’t take any options, though I plan to modify it to read from a filename in addition to stdin. Also, I should modify it to use imagemagick to get the image width and height values, since I don’t think there’s a guarantee that the metadata will store the image dimensions.
Arctic ‘house boat’
19-May-08
ExifTool is a Perl command line program for reading and writing metadata to binary files (.jpgs, .mpg, .doc, etc). Here’s how to install it on a Dreamhost-hosted account. (more…)
The Kitt-in Box
18-May-08
The Checklist
16-May-08
The Checklist by Atul Gawande.
“…In December, 2006, the Keystone Initiative published its findings in a landmark article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Within the first three months of the project, the infection rate in Michigan’s I.C.U.s decreased by sixty-six per cent. The typical I.C.U.—including the ones at Sinai-Grace Hospital—cut its quarterly infection rate to zero. Michigan’s infection rates fell so low that its average I.C.U. outperformed ninety per cent of I.C.U.s nationwide. In the Keystone Initiative’s first eighteen months, the hospitals saved an estimated hundred and seventy-five million dollars in costs and more than fifteen hundred lives. The successes have been sustained for almost four years—all because of a stupid little checklist…” (emphasis added)
Houseboats, boatsheds
12-May-08
Beautiful Indian (?) houseboats
Northumberland, England boatsheds
nerd-bender – noun, staying up all night researching some fool project that has little to do with your true long term goals, but which is exceeding cool in it’s own right. For example, designing a recumbent diesel/electric hybrid motorcycle. Or a seaworthy ferrocement skullship. Or a tele-operated robotic teddy bear who rides around on a robotic lady bug.