Dave Pattern's blog
Iman and Jonathan's comments on my previous post got me wondering how accurate searching by the average colour of a book cover would actually be…
Here's a quick & dirty prototype:
http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/colour.pl
It's so quick & dirty that you'll need to enter a hex value for the colour you want to search for (e.g. FF8C00 or 9370D8) — [...]
Colours, and the moods they evoke, play an important role in Hitchcock's films.
With that in mind, I got ImageMagick to figure out the average colour of each of the 1000 frames for "North by Northwest" — you can see the results here.
To put the average colours into context, here they are annotated with a selection [...]
Here's the next batch of "1000 Frames of Hitchcock":
The Pleasure Garden (1925) (60 seconds)
Strangers on a Train (1951) (60 seconds)
North by Northwest (1959) (60 seconds)
Slightly inspired by Douglas Gordon's "24 Hour Psycho" video installation, here's the first part of "1000 Frames of Hitchcock":
Spellbound (1945)
…be warned, it's a bandwidth hungry page!
The 1000 frames are fairly equally spaced and each represents a section of film lasting roughly 6 seconds.
Seeing as the next Dynix User Group Conference will be held in Barcelona, [...]
It's not often that the area where we live gets a mention on the BBC News web site:
"Homes evacuated amid factory fire"
…in fact, the last time might well have been this story about a local inventor who was attacked by a squirrel.
Unfortunately the main road where we live is still closed by the police, so [...]
As promised to the HORIZON-L mailing list, here's a Perl script we use to monitor our HIP server:
www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/monitor/monitor.pl
Once you've downloaded it, rename the file to monitor.pl
In summary, the script checks two URLs and sends an email to one (or more) email addresses if a trigger is reached:
(1) the first check is that your HIP home [...]
Now this is why I have absolutely zero interest in getting a job in London:
BBC News: Table-sized flat for £170,000
In case you're not from around these parts, that's:
$336,074 US dollars
€259,428 Euros
$426,364 Australian dollars
3,664,289 Mexican pesos
14,821,889 India rupees
As a comparison, our 3 bedroom period terraced cottage (which is actually 2 cottages knocked together) set in a [...]
Given how quiet he's been of late, I should have known John Blyberg was up to no good…
AADL.org Goes Social
I'm so envious that John is given the time to do all this by his management — I always seem to end up doing my coding during lunch breaks or at weekends — and I would [...]
Were you caught on the hop by the merger of Sirsi and Dynix?
Did the Ex Libris acquisition of Endeavor take you by surprise?
Were you amazed by the breaking news that LibraryThing is going to buy out Talis?
If the answer to any of the above is "yes", then you need the…
Library Predict-o-matic 3000
Just spotted "Asking Non-Users Why They Don't Use the Library" (LISNews):
From the Newtown (CT) Bee, C.H. Booth Library is looking for opinions about the library from an unlikely source: the people who do not use it. As part of a study for long-range planning at the library, made possible through a $9,000 grant awarded in [...]