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Pulse Jet Engines.. The Future

The race heats up to replace the jet turbine with a more efficient source of Mach-breaking airpower: the pulse-detonation engine.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Saturday, August 16, 2003

Wooden Video Art

I want this in my apartment. Damn neat.

he Wooden Mirror project is an art installation, and as such the goals leading to its creation are a bit vague. The piece explores the line between analog and digital. In the essence of the piece is the notion of inflicting digital order on a material that is as analog as it gets ñ wood. I was hoping to take the computational power of a computer and video camera , and seamlessly integrate them into the physicality warmth and beauty of a wooden mirror. The piece reflects any object or person in front of it by organizing the wooden pieces. It moves fast enough to create live animation.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, August 14, 2003

Prokyon3 MP3 Manager

Hmm.. looks interesting. Wonder if it will be good.. Gonna try it some time today. It even has a windows port for you inferior minds out there.

prokyon3 is a multithreaded MP3 manager and tag editor for Linux / Windows. It was written in C using the Qt3 widget set (Qt2 on Windows) and the MySQL database. prokyon3 can access MP3 files on harddisk, CDROM, SMB and NFS. Files can be played using XMMS (WinAmp on Windows), and can even be played when the files are on CD as prokyon3 identifies CDs by content. The files view is customizable and favorite artists are supported. prokyon3 also offers an editor for ID3 and Ogg tags and has been designed to support tagging for multiple files en mass.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Thursday, July 24, 2003

Boxes with minds of their own..

Why do my servers seem to know I’m gone.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Monday, July 21, 2003

PNG Format on the outs?

By Paul Festa – CNET

A patent underlying one of the Web’s most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become obsolete.

The situation has also rekindled debate about patents, innovation and the freedom of communication.

In the United States, the patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm expires June 20. LZW forms the basis of the popular GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) design.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, June 10, 2003

CD Case Maker

Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created with the advanced form can be optionally added to our public mix CD database. To create a case for an existing CD, use our CD search engine to find the CD and it will fill in this form for you. Jewel case inserts can also be created.

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Newsgroups!

Great Page for people wanting to learn about newsgroups

Posted by Michael Palmer on Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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