I’m going to have to check this out: Malabar Mode.
Ever front a database with a RESTful interface?
This looks like it could be handy – or at least the recipe one to consider: PHPRESTSQL.
Putting together a lightweight HD video recording rig
I have a Kodak Zi8 recorder that I am planning to use to upload videos to YouTube with. It produces fantastic quality videos, but more important, it has a stereo microphone jack, so that I can use it to record live music or interviews with a high degree of audio quality.
Tim Conneally, over at Betanews, has put together a great guide to putting together a kit that will fit into a 15 inch notebook sleeve.
Based upon its recommendations, I have already purchased a Dynex Video Bracket.
Next steps are two by a microphone and lastly, a lamp. I’m looking for recommendations if you have them.
Mat Schaffer has offered, based upon personal experience, the SP-BMC-1 from Sound Professionals.
My price limit is up to the Rode VideoMic being used by Tim Conneally.
Fran Guidry recommends the SP-SPSM-15 from Sound Professionals and the (discontinued) AT825 from Broadcast Production & Microphones.
A shocking source of TV news coverage of the oil leak?
G4 and Kevin Pereira: “BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife”.
G4, the games channel. Yes, the games channel!
This makes sense in a world where the most informative pieces of national news journalism are coming from a music magazine and nightly comedy show doesn’t it?
Parsing HTML with your favorite language
This thread at Stack Overflow is just terrific. One for your bookmarks.
Related:
help.hackshackers.com: “What are the best tools for “scraping” data off a Web page for analysis in Excel or other software?”
Will Larson: “An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping”
Michelle Minkoff: “How to Scrape Websites for Data without Programming Skills”
Firefox plugin: Outwit
Dan Nguyen: “Coding for Journalists 101 : A four-part series”
Prog-a-Month: “Easy HTML web scraping with Groovy and Java. (w/XOM)”
Hey guys, it’s okay to cry at a movie
The fact that stories like this one about ToyStory 3 are still being published – and still need to be published – is frustrating.
It’s okay for men to be emotional. If anyone tells you otherwise, give ’em a head butt (I kid, I kid!).
A high school drop out who did kinda okay
Michael J. Fox’s latest book is ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future’ and yes, he is the high school drop out in question. In the book Michael J. Fox certainly does not promote quitting High School! Far from it. What the book focuses on, by sharing his story, and the challenges he faced and took on along the way, what you can learn as a student of life, being open what the people around you (especially your children) can teach you, and to be present in the moment. The only book I can think of to compare it to, and this is high praise considering my love of it, is Randy Pauch’s “The Last Lecture” (another must read). It’s a fantastic book, a great story, with lessons all of us can learn from.
Thank you Richelle for buying me this for Father’s Day. It came at a good time.
YouTube: “Good Morning America: Michael J. Fox’s Life Lessons “
NPR.org: A Lesson In Life From Michael J. Fox (with excerpt)
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
He signs the book off with “Live to learn.”.
hacks/hackers teaming up with Mozilla on a course
This sounds like a fantastic opportunity for programmers who want to become familiar with journalism, and journalists to become familiar with programming.
Happy Father’s Day
Just wanted to wish all the dads out there a happy father’s day. Hope you are having a great one.
PS – Newsweek put up a great series of lessons in fatherhood from YouTube