Category Archives: Hacks
Project Idea: Render Images with Dice Rasterization
This great video by Fujiya & Miyagi inspired me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk Why not write a Processing sketch that will take an image and render it in dice? It might be fairly easy: Divide the image into square sections. Calculate the average brightness of that square – like I did in my engraving sketch.1 That average brightness [...]
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Project Idea: Rasterbator in Processing or Java
I looked through the code for the awesome Rasterbator, and I think it could be pretty easily converted to Java/Processing.
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Project Idea: Locale as a Script on Android
I think you could do a good subset of Locale‘s features with the Android Scripting Environment.
Android Scripting Environment is heating up
The Android Scripting Environment is to the Android phone as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It’s a simple place to do quick hacks for your phone without having to build a full plugin or application. Two cool scripts that just got released are Silent Night and Droid Track.
Project Idea: Context Free or Processing Header Plugin for WordPress
An iteration or so of the website ago I hacked in a random art generator into the background of the title of my website using ContextFree.js by Aza Raskin. It was a cool little hack, but what would be really nice is to make it shareable. I’d like a WordPress Plugin that finds the heading [...]
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The Magic Ruby vs the Url of Excel: a short story with long code
Once there was a hacker who needed to rescue a beautiful princess from her prison on a creaking ship moored in the middle of the sky. He made it onto the noisy old ship, slipped past the guards and tiptoed down the swaying halls to the room where she wept, chained to an excel spreadsheet.
Volunteer Your Computer to Keep Privacy Possible
The good folks over at Wild Bee have an excellent article about how you can use your computer to help the world while you sleep. Lotsa people run SETI@home – I think it is because of the screensaver. Instead of a looking for aliens, you could help political dissidents in repressive regimes, protect anonymous whistleblowers, [...]
Somebody get that monster a cookie
I love the Bergen stop on the F train. Someone is always improving the terrible advertisements. This one was too good not to share.
LibraryDroid tracks your books
Here’s me: I have an android phone, I can program, I use LibraryThing for tracking my books. Here’s how those things come together.
Automated Virtue