Awesomely fucked-up magic eye trick generated out of plain text (with thanks to Matt Webb for blowing my mind)

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Boing Boing audio interview with Mind
Hacks editor Matt Webb

Boing Boing audio interview with Mind
Hacks editor Matt Webb 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Mark Frauenfelder: I'm starting to get interested in podcasting, so I interviewed Matt Webb, the co-editor of the new book, Mind Hacks, just published by O'Reilly. It's 25 minutes long, and I even created a cheesy Garageband theme song for what I hope is the first of many interviews.

Note: Matt wrote me with the following info -- "This is the McGu rk video I was talking about. Just proving that I'm nothing without my notes, I incorrectly remembered the McGurk sounds! It's a visual 'ga' and an aural 'ba' that combine to the perception of 'da.' No 'va' at all (that's a variation on the experiment)."

The Mind Hack's weblog is here.

Link to BitTorrent file of my interview with Matt Webb.

Link to BitTorrent stats. (Thanks, Chuck!)

Apple sells Matt Webb a lemon, then
treats him like crap

Apple sells Matt Webb a lemon, then
treats him like crap 07/11/2004 05:32 PM
Matt Webb bought a 12" Powerbook and got a lemon. He's spent over a month calling Apple, trying to get it fixed, getting ignored, getting promises broken, not having his calls returned, getting the machine returned still broken, sending it back again. This is outrageous: Apple UK needs to do a better job if it plans on retaining customers.

It's happened again. Same problems as last time. mutt can't make temporary files, the computer won't shut down cleanly, then it won't boot (stays at the grey Apple screen) DiskWarrior can't repair it (and it freezes in Target Disk mode). If I go into verbose mode on book, the errors are:

Load of /sbin/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/mach_init Load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2

The hardware check, on the original CDs, comes back fine.

Coincidentally, it's after about 11 days of usage (again), and after the hard drive has got 45Gb of data on it (again).

I called tech support. Very helpful guy in the Danish tech support call centre. He says the next thing they'll ask me to do is reinstall.

Hang on, I've been here before.

I'm not going through this again.

I know this story. This is the one where I spend days doing what tech support ask, send my computer off, Apple hang onto it for months and send it back, still broken.

Link (via Plasticbag)

Teddy: mind-blowing 3D package

Teddy: mind-blowing 3D package 12/12/2003 11:39 AM
Teddy is a spookily cool 3D modelling package that automatically extrudes your 2D line-drawings into three-dimensional, rotatable objects. It runs in a Java applet and is mindbogglingly easy to use. The forms that it creates have a kind of organic roughness that is utterly unlike the 3D objects I've created with other 3D packages. 32MB AVI Link (via KoKoRo)

Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick

Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick 03/28/2005 01:30 PM
The plastics maker is offering a huge payout, but it's financed with debt.

Plain Text

Plain Text 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

Joel Spolsky: It would be convenient if you could put the Content-Type of the HTML file right in the HTML file itself, using some kind of special tag. Of course this drove purists crazy... how can you read the HTML file until you know what encoding it's in?!

The same thing is true of XML.  It is easy to eliminate what remains the single largest source of invalid feeds.  Take a moment and ensure that the first line of your feeds look like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Or, if you happen to be on a Windows platform and have a tendency to cut and paste content that may have so-called smart quotes in it, use the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>

Finally, while I don't know of a single feed parser that cares about the charset specified on the Content-Type header, it doesn't hurt to make it match.  Technically, if you use text/xml, the default is supposed to override what is specified in the document itself.  You can avoid this by simply using application/xml instead.

Plain Text Editor 2.1

Plain Text Editor 2.1 06/25/2004 08:43 PM
Plain Text Editor allows you to edit plain text files with many options.

Sharing Scripts as Plain Text

Sharing Scripts as Plain Text 08/28/2004 12:32 AM

Using Opera to read text/plain

Using Opera to read text/plain 09/20/2004 08:47 PM
For some time now, I have been using Opera to read large plain-text files, such as RFCs and books, or...

Novell GroupWise Plain Text Password
Vulnerability.

Novell GroupWise Plain Text Password
Vulnerability. 06/22/2005 02:10 AM
Posted by Security Team, Monday, 20 June

An AppleScript to convert clipboard
contents to plain text

An AppleScript to convert clipboard
contents to plain text 02/11/2004 11:04 AM
I frequently find myself wanting to copy and paste text between two programs that use completely different styles for their text. The problem is that when I paste the text, it brings along the style of other program, which me...

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send
Plain ASCII Text

Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send
Plain ASCII Text 02/17/2004 02:43 AM
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text is an exhaustive primer about why sending e-mail as HTML is wrong, something we've posted about before. The overview lists how to configure mail clients to send in plain-text, including instructions for several old versions of Mozilla and Netscape are listed. However,...

Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain
ASCII Text

Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain
ASCII Text 02/16/2004 05:20 PM
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text

expita.com/nomime.html
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North Korea says no, that was just us
blowing up a mountain for a
hydroelectric project, not us blowing up
nuclear bombs

North Korea says no, that was just us
blowing up a mountain for a
hydroelectric project, not us blowing up
nuclear bombs 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
We asked what you blew it up with

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3650702.stm
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How To Instantly Read Your Prospects
Mind by Harnessing The Power of 5 Magic
Words

How To Instantly Read Your Prospects
Mind by Harnessing The Power of 5 Magic
Words 04/16/2004 08:57 AM
WebDevInfo Apr 16 2004 1:06PM GMT

I Fucked Alec Baldwin in His Ass

I Fucked Alec Baldwin in His Ass 06/23/2004 12:15 PM
I can't decide whether to read this book now or wait for the movie, which I see as an Oscar-potential project for Halle Berry and Jake Gyllenhaal as you've never seen him before.

A one-trick pony that does the trick
well

A one-trick pony that does the trick
well 06/02/2004 03:44 AM
Convergence is something we talk about in this space from time to time and today is one of those times. But it's not convergence of protocols and standards that I want to mention today. Instead, it's a convergence of two of the concepts that intrigue me as they offer a very good ration of reward to risk when combined.

That Texas education must have fucked
you up when you were very small

That Texas education must have fucked
you up when you were very small 09/10/2004 12:43 PM
"To Kill the Child" and "Leaving Beirut" - two new songs written in response to the Iraq war by Roger Waters, and posted to his website in various streaming formats.

Magic Project, the true Magic playing

Magic Project, the true Magic playing 11/11/2003 06:54 PM
MagicProject 0.3 released !

"The Onion | Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked"

"The Onion | Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked" 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

The Onion Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked

The Onion Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked 12/11/2003 03:50 AM
factually accurate article .. still outperforms

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The lid is blowing off.

The lid is blowing off. 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
The lid is blowing off. Tom Tomorrow reports that the story of the 107 imprisoned, tortured, and raped children in Abu Ghraib is beginning to break all over the world, as the US media remains in patriotic silence. We're already about to lose our first ally over this, Norway.

VW Polo is Blowing Up

VW Polo is Blowing Up 02/01/2005 09:02 PM
Volkswagen has issued an all-points bulletin for Lee and Dan, the producers of the Polo spoof ad: "We are prepared to pursue the two individuals."

Blowing out candles

Blowing out candles 08/08/2004 12:04 PM
It'll be a cold day in hell, ooh, around Wednesday. Red Adair is dead. A sad day, and a great man. When they make a film of your work, and have John Wayne play you, well... From Blowout Control, Part...

TSG: Blowing Up Gotti

TSG: Blowing Up Gotti 08/20/2004 12:24 AM
Three generations of the volcanic Gotti clan. Two telephone receivers. One plexiglass divider. Life gets complicated when poppas in the pokey .. Blowing Up Gotti .. Gotti

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Blowing our minds

Blowing our minds 06/14/2004 08:25 AM
Martin Torgoff, author of "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," talks about America's complicated and schizophrenic history with drugs.

Quickie: Morgan Webb

Quickie: Morgan Webb 12/28/2004 02:59 AM
G4 Tech TV Dec 28 2004 6:04AM GMT

The Mystery At Webb Hill

The Mystery At Webb Hill 09/20/2004 01:10 PM
The Mystery At Webb Hill - In the waning daylight hours of December 7, 1998, three teenage boys, hiking near Webb Hill, St. George, Utah, saw a shirt sleeve flapping in the wind near the top of the hill. Their parents had warned them not to attempt hiking the sheer red rock cliffs. What they discovered inside a stone-walled chamber was the skeletonized remains of a 16 year old male. Positive identification of this young man has eluded investigators for nearly five years. Maybe you can help.

Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They
See?

Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They
See? 05/20/2004 05:48 AM

Mr Webb is watching you... [Flickr]

Mr Webb is watching you... [Flickr] 02/07/2005 02:03 AM

Blowing off the Iraq disaster

Blowing off the Iraq disaster 09/22/2004 05:05 PM
Even as a grim collage of mounting insurgent attacks, civilian beheadings by terrorists, and the general spread of chaos continues to darken the long shadow that's fallen over Iraq, the Bush campaign is launching a new TV ad focused on some other really, really important stuff. It seems they have a problem with their opponent's choice of leisure sport, and what it might say about his integrity. In the new spot, titled "Windsurfing", BC '04 cleverly flogs its Kerry flip-flopper theme, this time by showing Kerry tacking back and forth across the water, and announcing "John Kerry: whichever way the wind blows."

Blowing away that annoying hum from a
PC's fan

Blowing away that annoying hum from a
PC's fan 05/28/2004 07:50 PM
IHT May 29 2004 0:48AM GMT

Sims 2 hacks blowing up

Sims 2 hacks blowing up 01/06/2005 07:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: Hacks for Sims 2 are spreading like wildfire:

Entire neighborhoods of Sims are being mysteriously graced with eternal youth, while some characters are finding all their needs fulfilled by a single shot of magic espresso. Others no longer need to empty the toilet after potty training their toddler. Some Sims are being abducted by aliens when they glance through their telescope -- every time, instead of just occasionally, which is normal.

All this mayhem is the work of a community of experimenters wielding hex editors, custom programs and reverse-engineering skills who began mastering their own Sims 2 worlds immediately after the game's release last September. The hackers share their weird science with one another through public websites and forums.

Link (via Waxy)

Webb launches e-Government portal

Webb launches e-Government portal 11/14/2003 01:44 PM
Royal Gazette Nov 14 2003 12:04PM ET

Present from Webb on the day of his
departure from the BBC... [Flickr]

Present from Webb on the day of his
departure from the BBC... [Flickr] 03/31/2005 06:33 AM

R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter

R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
The finest journalist ever to get fired for telling the truth is dead at age 49. The official cause of death on the death certificate will be suicide. But, as we shall see, he had much help getting to that point. The story of the life and death of Gary Webb says much about the state of American politics and what passes as "journalism" in today's America.

Blowing away the romance of violent
crime

Blowing away the romance of violent
crime 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
Excellent review of a myth busting biography of Dick Turpin the 18th Century highwayman who according to popular mythology was...

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing 07/28/2004 11:45 PM
A classified investigation has concluded that an F.B.I. translator was dismissed in part because she said that the bureau had poorly translated important terror documents.

Customer Generated Demo

Customer Generated Demo 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
How cool is this?  One of our customers, inspired by Jon Udell's Wikipedia screencast (the best illustration I have seen on how wiki pages evolve over time), created his own Socialtext demo screencast and shared it in the Socialtext Customer...

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind 04/07/2005 02:33 AM
All over Nairobi, Kenya, thin plastic bags littered by consumers are piling up into little mountains of disease.
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