Zeus Jones goes evil for a day.
Category: bite sized
Enkoder for Leopard
The always handy e-mail obfuscation utility for Mac OS X is now a bona-fide Leopard-friendly (and free) application. Get it here.
For the huddled Mac-less (or older OS X cats), you can use a web-based version.
If you do any kind of web design or development and you like keeping your clients spam-free, this app will make your life much easier.
We are the machines.
Really interesting article from the Atlantic — Is Google Making Us Stupid? The gist is that with such easy access to near-limitless amounts of information, we let machines supplant thinking and our attention span and memory retention suffers accordingly. I think the historical examples found at the end of the article are an interesting counterpoint to the premise — be wary of change because Bad Things will surely occur. However, in every example, the changes — paper, printing press, internet — brought much more positive change than negative. Perhaps we’re in the thick of a similar cycle — our brains just need to catch up with our ambition.
Wii Fit Project
Jeremy’s getting ready to begin a 2 month quest to get to his ideal weight; just by playing Wii Fit. You can follow the action over at the Wii Fit Project… cool idea (and nice score on the URL, BTW.)
Video on Flickr?
Video on Flickr? Video on Flickr! It’s live, but there are some limitations (90 seconds — really?). It doesn’t beat Vimeo (my benchmark for online video), but this is a long time coming and it’s a step in the right direction.
WordPress 2.5
The next generation of WordPress is officially available. Sporting a brand new dashboard designed by the folks at Happy Cog, a slew of new features (and a new look for WordPress.org); it looks like a winner.
Spherical Video
Nifty homemade QTVR/spherical video. The cartop shot and POV are my favorites so far.