Stut.net

The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without [...]

I’ll take the position
assume the missionary part
you work by committee
you had me pegged from the start.
I’ll be pounce pony
phony maroney
pony before the cart.
I’ll be pounce pony.
this ceremony
only fills my heart.

who cast the final stone?
who threw the crushing blow?
someone has to take the fall
why not me?
a punch toy volunteer
a weakling on its knee.
is all you want [...]

My latest project went live on Monday this week. It’s another Twitter-based toy along the same lines as hotornot but it uses your Twitter account and profile picture. Since launch it’s proved very successful and has spread quickly due to its viral nature.
The site is called Twitorfit and was the brainchild of a Twitter-based conversation [...]

My mate Jared has posted a most excellent tutorial on High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. I haven’t tried this yet but I definitely will the next time I’m out with my camera – nice work Jared!

HDR example by Jared Earle, used with permission

Over the weekend I wrote a script to post new ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter. For me this was primarily a technology experiment but it may prove useful to someone so I thought I’d let everyone know about it.
Follow @ukfreeads to get the ads in your timeline. You can also see the 100 most [...]

Last night I finally got access to the full public feed from Twitter. I’ve written a daemon in C to push all tweets received into a DB and knocked up a little toy to test that it’s working.
Random Tweet
Doesn’t do much, just displays a random tweet from the past hour. Probably not useful to anyone [...]

This thing is freaking amazing. Some serious maths going on in there!

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been involved in developing a new site called Tweetmeme and it launches today.
You can read all about it on the Tweetmeme blog, but in short it watches activity on Twitter and keeps track of popular URLs. There is a river of URLs, RSS feeds and it also posts [...]

When I first came across the MacHeist Bundle offer I though it was too good to be true. The fact is that it’s a fantastic bargain. For the grand total of $49 you get 14 software packages that would normally cost just short of a whopping $500. If you’re only after two or three of [...]

Browsing around randomly this morning I came across a few video’s on YouTube that I thought were worth sharing, so here they are.

Rolling tires down a ski slope. Be sure to watch to the end, the last one is a classic!
Daft Hands – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. A slow starter, but it’s worth sticking with it.
Creature [...]