I’ve already had some requests for a windows version so I will try to port the code over to a gadget soon. Or maybe a Yahoo widget as well. If you really want a linux port of some kind let me know and what widget platform would be best.

Links:
Life Hacker
Tech Startups

It’s like getting that amazing new toy on Christmas and finding out batteries aren’t included. So you end up hunting through the house steeling batteries from remote controls. Well unfortunately there are no remotes to steal batteries from here. Google is holding all the remotes and there is nothing I can do about it except wait.

I’ll post my thoughts of it once my invite list get their accounts.

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More soon on this endeavour.

You’ll have to install it manually for now.

::Link Fixed::

Download the app here and extract it to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/User Data/Apps

Then edit up the sources.xml file under ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/User Data/Profiles/<username>

and add this peice of code in the video section.

<source>
<name>Hard Times :: Ze Frank</name>
<path>app://zefrank/</path>
<thumbnail>http://images.vimeo.com/11/30/60/113060111/113060111_300.jpg</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>

You may need to restart Boxee after doing so to get the app to appear. I submitted it to boxee, who knows maybe they’ll put it in their repository.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Bonus video:

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If only apple would release new Mac mini’s, so I can make a new media server. *sigh*

Hit play on both videos below and then pause the one on the left. Wait for the countdown to hit :00 on the right then hit play on the left video and enjoy. It might take you a few tries before you get it in sync.

I’ve been having small conversations about how the labor worker is endangered in this country for a while now. Moreover thanks to technology and necessity there will be a need for more and more knowledge workers. Which we are currently at a deficit, I believe. Mainly because we’ve made it terribly difficult to become a creative knowledge worker. First, its expensive and second, we tend to pinhole a specific discipline and beat them over the head with it. So much so that it begins to dominate their lives. Architects that believe everything is Architecture, because of the very nature of the metaphor. We build relationships and design the very boundaries of our existence, etc… In every discipline as the focus becomes narrower I think a persons entire scope also becomes narrow and they believe that all life subsists of their discipline. Which is an easy correlation to make but we make it at the sacrifice of the myriad of possibilities from every other discipline. Artists love to believe that what they do and what a mathematician does is hugely different. When we know for a fact that both are interrelated. The golden ratio is a prime example as it relates to aesthetics. More over plenty of mathematicians can submit to the idea that a proof can be elegant or even beautiful. Using terms of aesthetics to describe mathematics. Sometimes science becomes more about creativity, rather than logic. Take string theory for example which states that all possibilities exists and are collapsed to a reality by an observer. Granted that being a rather simplistic statement of a particular part of string theory, nonetheless it almost sounds like philosophy rather than physics. These field experts are knowledge workers but they work at a deficit of interdisciplinary knowledge. Which is why collaboration is so important. But what if we were able to collaborate in our own heads as well as with other people. What if an Artist could put down the paint brush and discuss metallurgy or the kazimir effect. Or a chemist having a conversation on color theory or Calvino’s Lightness. What if we found a common ground in our own heads, would it be easier to talk to each other? Would the conversation be good?

Link: Netflix Mac Beta