Frozen Grand Central: this is awesome

Need more of this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo[/youtube]

Will write for toys

If I sell 18 more of these

(I just sold two to a lovely lady in England)



I can get one of these. And I really, really, really want (note: in no way need) one of these.

Because I want to be able to do this...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8IRfy0Trk[/youtube]

I enter the fray at Bayou Battle

You suck at Photoshop

NSFW links here, folks. If you haven't seen these (5 so far), do so. They're hilarious. First one below in frame. Links to 2-5 below that. Seriously. Watch these. You don't have to be interested in Photoshop. Headphones recommended if you like to watch NSFW stuff @W.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M[/youtube]

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Art for Geeks

[Edit 2/1/08: This has been taken down. Link below now leads to somebody else's posting of the pic. Too bad.]

Just awesome. See the whole Flickr set. I could lay down some pseudo-intellectual crap about mash-ups and the convergence of technology, culture and past culture. Something about zeitgeist and... nah. Just enjoy 'em 'cause they funny.

Free... and now, easy

I love open source stuff. Who can argue with free? And with the idea that a community of users can work on something they love and make it good and, in some cases, better than a corporate version. Good stuff. Unfortunately, sometimes the price of "free" is that you have to be an enthusiast in order to get stuff to work. And while that can be fun if you are, in fact, an enthusiast... the difference between "not worth my time" and "whoa! cool!" can be measured in frustration.

Two new services (new to me, anyway) help put the "easy" into "free."

WinLibre bundles some of the best open source, desktop softare for Windows into one complete, customized download and install routine. You download one (pretty big... 151 MB) WinLibre setup file, choose the components you want, and BLAMO! they all get installed in one swell foop. Optional installs include Open Office, Firefox (and other free browsers), creativity software (Audacity, InkScape, Blender, Gimp), multimedia utilities and helpful Windows tools . A Mac version, MacLibre, is available, too.

On the Web front, JumpBox creates virtual machines that do easy installs for a number of popular, open source applications. I've installed a number of these "by hand" over the years (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, TikiWiki, PmWiki, MediaWiki and others), and it can be a royal pain. Others on the list I have tried... but couldn't get past the steep learning curve for installation. JumpBox promises to make the process of installing web-side software that much easier. I haven't tried it yet, but if I do, I'll come back and let you know how it goes. It can't be any harder than some of these installs (ahem... MediaWiki) are without support. There are currently 22 applications in the JumpBox library.

Previous post on open source, with list of additional free stuff.

I can't wait...

This looks awesome. Video below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI[/youtube]

The first version is cool... Deluxe looks like a hoot-and-a-half.