Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on Parallels
You’ve tried to install Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on Parallels and it doesn’t start up? Well, so did mine. Here the solution that I found.
Perl: One line search and replace
Yes, it’s been used for a long long time and I have been using them for quite a while too. But the problem is, I always forget which one to leave out for a dry run. So, I’m putting it here as a quick ref in the future.
Amazing live animation using sand
I just had to post this video because I’m so impressed with it. The following video show how an artist ‘draws’ by spreading sand on a lightbox and creates an artwork that evolves into a series of scenes.
According to one of the post on digg (where I found it) by pchi, ‘this is the story of creationism told by Ferenc Cako at the 2003 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF).’
Here’s the video:
Click on ‘read more’ to see 2 more videos by this guy.
Funny Ameriquest commercials
While surfing the web, I found a TV advertisement for Ameriquest and it was (still is) very funny. The TV commercial below is just one of the whole series. I’ve decided to find as much as I can and keep them in one blog post.
For other videos in the same series, click on “read more” below.
Pathway for Wikipedia (Mac)
My brother-in-law just showed me this cool little app for Mac called Pathway that works somewhat like Visualthesaurus but with a whole new perspective – for browsing Wikipedia.
With pathway, you can basically browse Wikipedia, while visually see how your topi is related to other topic titles. Click on those related titles and you’ll see the Wiki for that topic, plus its related keywords. At the very end, you’ll end up with a semantic chart of related keywords.
This application is very useful when doing brainstorming for ideas, or expanding knowledge about how various things are interconnected with other domains. I used to do this with Visualthesaurus to explore various aspects of design (both in graphics design and application design). Now, I have Pathway!
For screenshots, click on “read more” below.