Dave Pattern's blog
Following on from the book covers arranged by hue/lightness, I've been playing around with the 1000 Frames of Hitchcock thumbnails.
Here's the result of 15 minutes of coding and 2 hours of rendering using a single frame from the famous shower scene in Psycho…
To see the individual frames, you really need to view the full sized [...]
Just another plug for the Mashed Library event, now that the registration page is available!
This informal event is a chance to meet others involved in Library Technology and related fields such as metadata, search, etc. Inspired by the Mashed Museums event, the day will give the opportunity for you to discuss ideas, share visions, and [...]
Sunday afternoons were made for doing this kind of thing…
(click here for the biggest version)
Several thousand of our books, arranged vertically by hue and horizontally by lightness. The value was calculated by finding the average colour of the book cover and then converting that to the relevant HSL value. There's a little bit [...]
Just in case anyone was in any doubt about the reality of global warming, the BBC Ceefax service is currently reporting (on page 402) that we'll have a peak temperature of 54°C (129°F) tomorrow…
So, for anyone heading to London for Internet Librarian International 2008, I'd recommend lots of sun cream and a big hat.
I've lost count of the number of times this year it's felt like I've woken up in a parallel universe — it's happened again this morning when I read about the US Lingerie Football League on the BBC News web site, which features "teams of models playing an American football game while dressed in lingerie".
Now, [...]
The press release for Horizon 7.4.2 has just gone online.
Both Talin Bingham (Chief Technology Officer) and Gary Rautenstrauch (Chief Executive Officer) use the word "worldwide" in the press release:
This new version adds functionality requested by our customers worldwide and offers great benefits to libraries and patrons alike…
Providing the features librarians need and delivering the best [...]
Kudos to Owen Stephens for getting Mashed Library '08 off the ground! According to the mashed library page on ning.com, the event will take place at Birkbeck College, London on Thursday 27th November.
("mash and gravy" by chotda)
In the spirit of all things unconferency, the aim is to…
…have a reasonably informal event at which we [...]
No disrespect to the family of Damilola Taylor, but I'm not sure why the BBC have deemed this ("Porn posted on Damilola web forum") to be a newsworthy headline story? The forum in question only appears to have ever had 1 legitimate thread since it was set up and only a couple of non-spambot [...]