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Entries for Sunday, March 18, 2007

March 18, 2007

twittervision

Twitter posts plotted on a world map in real-ish time.

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Pixels to Penguins

Aron Atkins’s first-prize-winning Flickr+MIDI+Tux mashup from BarCampBoston2’s Programming Contest. Enter a one-word keyword and hit the button.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

"Boston Bar Queue Calculator". Won second place in the contest.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Match of the Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Match of the Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

Voice-Recognized Calculator-Barbecued Genetically-evolved Penguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Pixels to Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Pixels to Penguins

By Aron of Spot Story. Takes a text entry, finds related tags, loads photos with those tags into an image of Tux, and plays a MIDI track based on it. Won first place in the contest.

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Instructions

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Instructions

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Shoes

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Shoes

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People

Mel Chua leading the QMfQP session.

Messed-up sticker printing.

Messed-up sticker printing.

These are two of the original batch of stickers I got from PSPrint. (The middle logo is a printout on work laser printer). As you can see, the rich emerald green of the BCB2 logo got printed as a dirty greenish-gray.

Luckily, PSPrint were incredibly lovely and helpful in trying to rectify this at high speed, printing and shipping out replacements that were delivered Saturday morning.

Geneguin

Geneguin

Clearly some people are taking the BCB2 programming contest with the seriousness it deserves.

BarCampBoston2 laptop sticker

BarCampBoston2 laptop sticker

Alas, I didn't have them in time for Day 1, but the laptop stickers have arrived and I'll be handing them out today.

BarCampBoston - DayOneLinkDump

BarCampBoston2 got of to a roaring, if less-busy-than-planned-due-to-weather, start today.

First of all, the most important link—the one that I was asked for repeatedly throughout the day—is the source of the lolcats that I used to help time the 10-Second Introductions. You can find all the anthropomorphized cats you desire at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?.

Onto less important matters… OpenID! If you want, you can grab a copy of my slides (though they are hopefully relatively useless if you didn’t see me present). Useful OpenID links:

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to exhume the presentation I gave last year, as I’ll be giving it again tomorrow morning due to “popular demand” (ie. one person asked me).


About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.