Saturday, October 31, 2009
neptune
CANARIE - has awarded $980,000 in new funding to support some exciting new approaches to data collection and analysis. Data collection will be enhanced by installation of a "mini-observatory" at a nearby secondary school. Data analysis will be augmented by two new software-enabled approaches.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
wrong idea
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Development Again by Salar - Why we don?t support Internet Explorer
This is just not a good idea. Ignoring 70% of the people who use the web is not a good idea.
HTML5
What Does It All Mean?
HTML5 Tutorial - Getting Started
HTML Diamonds - Ruby library for making HTML
WebGL and O3D
listen
Whales are good listeners -
Whales are polite conversationalists, as they can spot rhythms in the ocean filled with the calls of marine animals, scientists claim.
The marine biologists at the Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center have come up with a device that can spot these rhythms and identify individual animals.
With the help of this latest technique they have learnt that whales make a specific effort to keep their calls from overlapping.
They will present their study at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in San Antonio.
Also, Natalia Sidorovskaia with her colleagues at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have noted that whales change the intervals between these echolocating clicks in a way that seems to prevent cluttering the echoes from these calls.
?In other words, whales are polite listeners; they do not interrupt each other,? Sidorovskaia said. (ANI)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
mystery cafe
At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered.
For the record, here are the rules of the Ogori cafe:
1) Let's treat the next person. What to treat them with? It's your choice.
2) Even if it's a group of friends or a family, please form a single-file line. Also, you can't buy twice in a row.
3) Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, let's quietly give it to another while saying, "It's my treat?")
4) Let's say "Thank You! (Gochihosama)" if you find the person with your Ogori cafe card.
5) We can't issue a receipt.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
ofxMarsyas
OMFG, Paul Reimer (a student here at UVIC) just got Marsyas and MarSndPeek running on the iPhone. He is a coding machine.
Monday, October 19, 2009
pandora
The Song Decoders - Excellent article in the New York Times about Pandora
How Much Is Your Taste in Music Based on What Your Friends Like?
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
html5 audio
J.A.I. or "Javascript Audio Interface"
// Create an array of the <audio> resources
var playlist = document.getElementById('jai').getElementsByTagName('audio');
// Beings playing the first audio file
playlist[0].play();
// Mutes the audio
playlist[0].volume=0;
// Returns the current volume of the resource
var volume = playlist[0].volume;
// Gets the length in seconds of the audio (not always 100% accurate)
var length = playlist[0].duration;
// Gets the current position of the track in seconds
var time = playlist[0].currentTime;
// Sets the current position of the track to 10 seconds
playlist[0].currentTime = 10;
// Pauses the audio at it's current position
playlist[0].pause();
// Gets the URL of the audio file
var filename = playlist[0].src;
audio player HTML5 style
Using audio and video in Firefox
HTML 5 Draft - Media elements
nsIDOMHTMLMediaElement
HTML5 Audio Soundboard
$("audio").removeAttr("controls").each(function(i, audioElement) {
var audio = $(this);
var that = this;
$("#doc").append($('<button>'+audio.attr("title")+'</button>')
.click(function() {
that.play();
));
});
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 09, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
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