December 2008
13 posts
WatchOktapodi. Love it!
Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Premier →
Wooot!!! I’ve been waiting for this!
File creation date in Ruby on Macs
Brent Simmons posted about how to get the file creation data in Ruby on a Mac. His solution is good, but suffers from shell injection. Here’s a slightly modifed version that’s not susceptible (that I know of):
require 'open3'
require 'time'
def creation_time(file)
Time.parse(Open3.popen3("mdls",
"-name",
...
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld →
And so starts what I predict to be a few year phase out of Steve Jobs as being pseudonymous with the perceived identity of Apple, Inc. No one can do a keynote like Jobs? Get rid of the keynotes.
“You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %”
– My score on the American Civic Literacy Quiz. For the record, I got the following questions wrong: 4, 7, & 13.
WatchMike Huckabee Pt. 2 | The Daily Show
“[Obama’s] going to have to be more assertive than he’s been. At a...”
– Barney Frank (via TPM)
Watch“Prop 8 - The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones
Convert M-JPEG webcam stream to Flash →
I got a really cheap D-Link network webcam from Newegg the other day to use as a puppycam. Just spent the last few minutes (while eating lunch) hooking it up & getting the stream open in mplayer. When I have some free time, I’m going to try this trick to convert the “M-JPEG” stream into flash video.