Last weekend, I was experimenting with Google Maps and geo-location. The result was http://bandmaps.org/.
Band Maps is a geographical concert tour viewer: it places onto the map all of the tour dates for a given artist in a given year, connected by colored lines and directional arrows. The user can then choose a show from the list or use her arrow keys to navigate chronologically, viewing a small bit of information about each show in the Google Maps “infowindow” (the thing that pops up when you click an icon on the map.)
Having collected all of the tour information myself, I’m surprised there are so many artists in the database already (and with semi-complete tour histories too.) Bands currently supported: A Perfect Circle, Brad, Fuck Buttons, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, Mogwai, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, and Zwan.
The plan now is to make the info window for each tour date a wiki entry, such that the users will be able to add show reviews, photos, setlists, and other information to the site. It’d also be nice if it was kept up-to-date with upcoming shows too, giving one a way to find shows in one’s area. I guess. It started out as an experiment and I’m not sure it deserves more work.
Anyway, not bad for a weekend’s code output.
I released a new version of Shup last night with the following changes:
* Added upload support for ScrnShots.com
* Added cancel buttons to uploader dialogs
* Nicer upload error message + editor doesn’t close if upload fails
* Uploaders are now listed in mostly-alphabetical order
* The main window menu Help -> Online Help (CTRL+H) now links to the Shup Wiki
* Fixed a bunch of crash bugs
* REAPER Stash uploader now requires proper Shupport credentials
It is good. Download it here.
Last night, at the behest of Dan Brown, I made a new subforum on toolnavy. In this forum, posts have no identifying user information and get provided with one of 40 avatars (this image split into 40 equal pieces). With 40 posts on each page, things got pretty wild as you can imagine.
Not content to rest there, Mr. Brown contributed this page of posts and achieved more in one evening than most will ever even dare to dream.
The day after Mr. Kiahtipesopolous and I saw Pearl Jam at The Gorge in 2005, we drove to Vancouver for a follow-up show. It was spine-tinglingly good. It was one of those shows where you’re just like, yes. Except when the Supersuckers were playing, then I was like, maybe.
The setlist:
- Release
- Go
- Animal
- Save You
- Given To Fly
- Corduroy
- Love Boat Captain
- Evenflow
- Betterman
- Half Full
- Daughter
- Wishlist
- Lukin
- Grievance
- Immortality
- Nothing Man
- Down
- Do The Evolution
- Blood
- Footsteps
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
- U
- Alive
- Encore Break 1
- Bee Girl
- Black
- Porch
- I Believe In Miracles
- Baba O’riley
- Yellow Ledbetter
The prime cuts from this show were Release, Half Full (What the FUCK?), Lukin + Grievance, Immortality, Black…I could go on but those will be enough to get you where you’re looking to go.
Lately I’ve been coding something new! It’s called camelcamelcamel and it is for tracking the pricing and availability of products on Amazon.com. The user simply finds a product in which she is interested and enters the price point at which she would like to receive an alert. The site constantly monitors Amazon’s product data and emails the user the moment changes are detected.
c3 (brilliant shorthand, don’t you think?) is mainly–second to the love–an experiment in utilizing the Associates Web Service (AWS), but there are some underlying possible data sets that could prove interesting. For example, one could easily determine what price people are willing to pay for the latest iPod; this could help set the price of future products or the discounts in the next sale. It is also interesting to watch the price of products prior to becoming, during, and after being a Deal of the Day or Goldbox promotion; do prices jump right before, to justify the huge savings during the sale? And where do said prices end up when the sale is over?
These questions and more will be answered in due time. The database needs time to expand, to gorge, to imbibe. To this end, I am doing some eager tracking: the Goldbox and Deal of the Day (as well as many categories’ worth of the Best-seller, Most Wished For, and New Releases) data feeds are being imported regularly, so that the site can provide users with plenty of historical data on the most popular products.
Check it out at http://camelcamelcamel.com. I appreciate any feedback you care to give. =)
(Thus begins the countdown - how long until I kick myself for not using PHP?)
I, along with a couple of friends, flew out to St. Maarten in the Caribbean for a few days of relaxation. Here are some panoramic photographs I made while there!
People who don’t believe this:
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama was quoted as saying by the Huffington Post.
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said.
Growing up in Butt Fucking Egypt (Price, UT), I have the experience and justification to say Obama is correct when he says that Middle America clings to guns/religion/anti-immigrant sentiment, and that Clinton and McCain are posturing fools for attempting to claim otherwise.
If you want VersaMail 4.0 but fear installing the Centro version on your Treo 755p, fear not: a freshly formatted/unboxed unit will allow 4.0 to be installed with no problems. I assume the warning they give you on the download page is for those installing over VersaMail 3.x.
Anyway, it worked for me and I am loving VM 4.0 on my 755p. Don’t blame me if shit blows up.
People will never want to search for more that 5mb files.
Waaaaaaaay back in 2003 I wrote this little app named iPodCopy, which copied mp3s from your iPod to your computer (not business as usual at the time). Eventually iPodCopy was merged into ml_ipod and that was that, UNTIL NOW!
Here for posterity is iPodCopy.