Trevor F. Smith: Exterior

links for 2007-10-31

• So Long Apple. The Party's Over
  Shipping Leopard with an old Java is weak.

Body Image

I've been working on the Ogoglio body system for a while and I find it a bit warped. My days are filled with gruesome imagery like this:

(texture credit Mark McCahill)

I'll be glad to see the backside of this chunk of work.

Le Co[rbusier|llision]

My avatar is so cool, he puts his arms through his legs while kicking it on Le Corbusier:

I'm adding a load of features to Ogoglio's body rendering kit, including a seating system so that we can rest our tired dogs. The bad intersection of arms and legs happens when I play animations created for the Andrea body on Mike.

Poor guy.

Feels like this.

(daisuke yamamoto via monoscope)

This captures the feel of what I imagine some areas of an online city could be, and Jon Brouchoud gets a lot of it right with his efforts towards a wikitecture.

We need to pare down the ideas and tools to the equivalent of a wall, brushes, and blank paint, then we can deal with the occasional horse crossing.

links for 2007-10-09

• isightcapture
  Damn handy command line tool for capturing iSight snaps. This plus the Ogoglio web client == my mug on flying 3D toasters.
  (tags: iSight commandline)

From the NYT article on the GPhone:

“Running a Web site and a search engine is one thing,” said Mr. Weide of IDC. “But developing a phone is a whole different game. It will not be easy for them.”

There's a flock of nerds who originally worked together at Be, Inc (the BeOS folks) and then went to Danger, where they made the hiptop (a.k.a. T-mobile Sidekick). Once the hiptop shipped and became boring some of these folks splintered off to form Android and at least one (hey, Jeff) went to Apple to make the iPhone.

Google then bought Android, so if the Goog wants to ship a phone they can ship a phone.

Pure speculation: I'm betting that a lot of the Danger guys are so peeved that the hiptop developer community was totally crushed because of braindead carriers that they're going to make it right this time by opening the platform to third party hacking, even if they have to circumvent the carriers.

Big O of Paul

Paul Ford:

What scientists saved programmers squander. It must be disappointing to spend your college years cultivating a ponytail and a sense of superiority, discovering the inherent recursive nature of everything, only to wander into a cubicle farm where programmers like myself sit like veal calves, fattened on the candy-colored syntax served up by our platform IDEs, iteratively wasting what you've learned to prize. #

links for 2007-10-06

• If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
  “I wish this company understood the value of openness, but they don’t, so I’m going to keep buying their closed, crippled shit until they get it.” [dive into mark]
• The Flying Saucer Project
  An XHTML renderer in pure Java. Not yet useful for the web (in all it's painful glory) but still interesting for those of us who might want to render styled text into 3D spaces.
  (tags: 3space 3pointD ogoglio)