Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-12-26
- flagrantdisregard.com Flickr Toys — Excellent bunch of ideas for Flickr applications
- WordPress Ajax Commenting revisited
Month: December 2005
More on Christmas
Here is more about Christmas, since I’m still in the spirit.
One of the cool things about living in a mutlicultural environment (like Cyprus) is that you can enjoy the best of all worlds. Originally, we were celebrating only the New Year with Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus) being the main character of the holiday. But now we enjoy Christmas too. And we get more presents from Santa Claus and Agios Vasilis (Greek Santa Claus).
The definition of “begin good all year” can also be interpreted in different ways, which pretty much guarantees presents from at least one of the three magical Christmas grandpas…
Daily del.icio.us bookmarks
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-12-25
- Lost in Translation — Very visual example of how things get lost in translation.
- Pandora – the music box — Find Music You’ll Love
More content is coming…
Olga was very good this year and Santa Claus gave her a camcorder for Christmas. That means that even more content will be posted to this website in the coming year. So far you had plenty of texts and loads of images with occasional audio. Video clips were rare. Now they’ll be more often. (Stay tuned for the upcoming New Year Eve filming with me performing as Santa Claus).
We’ll just need some time to study the camera and how the whole process of filming, ripping, and optimizing for web works. Any hints are more than welcome, as usual…
Pandora – the music box
Listening to Raven’n’Blues show from BFBS I learned about Pandora.
Pandora is a result of Music Genome Project. Basically, what they do is analyze a lot of music for rythms, instruments, vocals, and a whole lot of other criterias and then help you find the music that you like.
Excellent science project with perfect end user appliance. You get a single box to fill in – write the band or album that you like and you’ll get a whole bunch of music that matches your taste. I’ve been playing around it for half a day only and I have to say that it works out great. Maybe my taste is too simple though. But anyway, I’ve heard many songs that I’ve heard before as well as a lot of new stuff.
You don’t even have to register to try it out for an hour or so. If you’ll listen for longer, it will ask you to create an account, which is as simple as giving your email address, adding a password, and specifying your birth year (you can lie, ma). They also aks for a ZIP code, which is USA specific, but you can always use the Beverly Hills’ 90210.
Enjoy! Let it be my Christmas present to all of you.
Update: You can also save your favourites to a list, share your stations, and do a lot of other cool stuff. My favourites page is here.