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Cat Talk

r2witco — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:03:39 +0000

Two cats acting cute and doing there best impression of a couple Furbies:

and here are the same two cats translated for those of us that don’t speak feline:

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Advanced Photo Resizing

r2witco — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:45:05 +0000

Really amazing new technology for image resizing. May not be that appealing to all, but to pixel pushers like myself, it’s definitely worth checking out.

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Star Wars and Flock

r2witco — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:06:24 +0000

Once again, I’ve stumbled upon some long lost memory on YouTube – last time it was 80’s Cartoon Intros. This time I found a lost scene from Star Wars: A New Hope. This whole scene was on the Star Wars Radio Broadcast, I remember listening to the cassettes as a kid. Anyway, enjoy…

Embedded Video

In other news, I’ve switched browsers. I’m now using Flock. Not to sound like too much of a sales person, but I’m really impressed with it so far. If you’re not familiar with it, I’ll give you a brief rundown. It’s basically a different version of FireFox. It’s built off the same architecture, and has a lot more features. I’m really enjoying the Media Browser, as well as the integrated blog tools – which I used to write this post. All of the FireFox extensions I used before work great on Flock so I can use it for my design/developer purposes as well as my recreational web needs. On top of that, my buddy Tim designed the badass interface that really sets it apart from other browsers. He told me that I couldn’t combine Flock with Star Wars, guess I proved him wrong with this post.

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Typography in motion

r2witco — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:45:52 +0000

First of all, here’s a little background on typography for those of you who don’t know what it is.

Pulp Fiction Typography
Higher Resolution Version

Hey Ya Typography Short

Here’s a couple of links to other videos of this sort:
Oceans Eleven project
8 Rules of Fight Club

If you know of any others that fit into this category, please leave me a comment.

[edit] just saw this video and had to add it to this post:

Gone Daddy Gone

r2witco — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:51:31 +0000

Funny video for Gnarls Barkley’s version of Gone Daddy Gone. The animation is great, they really did a nice job on the characters. On top of that, it’s a decent song and there’s a great panty shot towards the end of the video

On a different note, I really like how BrightCove has put all of the share/link/email options into the player instead of just linking back to the site like YouTube does.

Star Wars, the college years

r2witco — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:19:43 +0000

Stabbing at Leia’s 22nd Birthday

New features (video comments)

r2witco — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:13:50 +0000

I just added a new feature to the blog. If you have a webcam, you can now leave me video comments. If you go to leave me a comment or read the comments, you’ll notice a widget, from flixn.com, at the bottom that will let you interface with your webcam. After recording, it spits out a code snippet that you can then paste into the comment box and it will post your video into the comments.

Test it out, leave me a message, I’m curious hear (and see) what you have to say.

the big “30″

r2witco — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:27:08 +0000

Yep, that’s right, I can no longer be trusted.

In the spirit of getting older, I invite you all to reminisce with me a little. Here’s a collection of old videos from Sesame Street, some of you may remember the Number Painter. He was always one of my favorite characters. I wonder if he were to try and do that today if he would get arrested? I could see one of those episodes ending with him sitting in a cell, painting a mark for every day he’s been there.

Sesame Street Number Painter

and if you feel like picking something up for me, there’s always Amazon…

That’s my kind of cooking

r2witco — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:13:30 +0000

This guy takes a heaping scoop of beat boxing talent, tosses in a dash of good humor and comes up with a tasty little ditty.

OurStory at DEMO ‘07

r2witco — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:30:51 +0000

Yesterday, the company I work for OurStory finally shed its BETA tag and unveiled our product to the world at DEMO ‘07. From what I have heard, our presentation went really well. I’m not that surprised, we have a great product and our founder, Andy Halliday, is a great speaker and is very passionate about our product.

Here’s a video of our presentation:

Here’s a few links to press we’ve been getting since the event:

DemoBlog Raves about OurStory
Exceptional OurStory feedback from DemoBlog. Quote from Keith Shaw “I ’m a big fan of the OurStory team ….. I’m rooting for this one.”
OurStory.com at DEMO ‘07
Andy halliday and OurStory.com’s presentation and product release at DEMO ‘07 in Palm Springs
Demo 07: Looking for the Next YouTube
OurStory.com lets you collaborate with others to add photos, videos, and text to tell the story of a person or an event, and then capture it in books or on a DVD.
OurStory tells your story with a little help from your friends
OurStory lets users collect and organize photos, videos, and blogs chronologically.
Demo 07 OurStory.com shows some utility
Standards Higher than Usual. One final DEMO attendee that actually shows some utility is OurStory, which allows families to plot stories, photos and videos on a timeline to share with others.
More here on my Digg page…
I should have just posted that link

A mid week pick me up

r2witco — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:55:36 +0000

This little ditty helped to pick my spirits up and energize me for the rest of the week (or at least the end of the day).

here’s a few other things I’ve stumbled across recently:

…last but not least, here’s a great article that I found to be helpful for work/fun: 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without – all of their articles are really good, I’m a subscriber!

Save ‘em for a rainy day (or a long flight to Thailand)

r2witco — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:13:54 +0000

Just in case anybody was wondering how to save a movie from YouTube and watch them later on your computer, here:

*if anybody comes across a better flv player for the Mac, would you let me know – thanks

the plants have eyes…

r2witco — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:48:06 +0000

If you like the idea of “living” plants, this is worth checking out.

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