Doing some perl research and found a very nice use of the Finance::Quote module…..this:
They’re 8 foot tall puppets which mimic the movement of the stock market in realtime. They were part of burning man 2000.
I caught this article on the inq and felt obliged to chime in as someone who is often grumpy:
Happy HDW,
I’m sure you, I, and a bunch of other Inq readers are in good company this week. Besides AMD finally getting some recognition for their nice chips, what else is going right?
We’ve still got bush, still got a war, tech job industry in the US is still pretty lame, morgage rates are on the rise, oil at all time high, (bullshit) talk of preeminent nuke strike on iran, hamas came to power, It’s hot and perhaps hurricane season this year will be another doozie…not to mention all those Louisiana license plates I keep seeing (in texas and when I was in CO last week).
Eh fuck it,
=)
Glen.
ihatethetv.com(feel free to print any of this and my name, then again it’s probably a pile of shit not worthy of reading)
Here is a nice tutorial on making a pinhole. It shows how useful such a lens is for looking for dust on a sensor.
Harry Taylor lobs a non-softball at the president. The president is not entirely caught off guard, so the coaching is working to some extent.
Quite a stinkeye he provides though.
More applications of spinning LEDs and persistance of vision. See here.