From 30 Jan to 2 Feb.
Best LAN camp evar.
(In Tasmania. At Hellyer College)
Details at dcypher.org. Tell any highschool/college aged gamers you know.
Category: general
Piglet Squid
From here.
20081027
New Cell SDK from IBM – Not that I’ve looked in depth at it, but always good to see progress (does appear to have interesting new features in spu-gcc)
Learn you a Haskell – For great good, indeed.
Baffling intro animation notwithstanding – I shall have one of these.
20081027
Second OLPC deployment in Africa. (Photo: Daniel Drake)
C++ meets technical drawing – Exquisite. Terrifying.
Open source church projection software? – Looks intriguing. Regardless of its usefulness (of which I cannot yet speak), I like their heart. Also, looks like it might work with wine.
Housing from shipping containers – A container wine cellar is still on my to-do list.
The sins of the fathers, visited upon their children..
The Bishop of Tasmania’s take on Lambeth 2008 – An interesting and thorough overview, with further comment and linkage here.
C. S. Lewis on Tyranny
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Tumbly
Tumblelog – “a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging.”
Anarchaia is now trivium – “In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.” A fantastic aggregation. (and one of the places from where I am shamelessly stealing)
Email protocol obsoletion – Diffs between RFCs 2821 and 2822 with 5321 and 5322. Something changed on the internet!
Tripod. In Burnie! – I should pay more attention to local ‘cultural’ events.
LCA shedule is up – Some of the talks that interest me collide… but I’m really looking forward to the event.
From the makers of “Look Around You” – “… why would I want to even SPEAK to an octopus?”
Stryper in Guitar Praise?
Tunes
I’ve not played the game, but I’ve been enjoying the tunes from http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/castlecrashers.html
Also, there’s some absolutely fantastic stuff at http://8bitpeoples.com/
Vid to MPEG2
mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup \-srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:\acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 25 -o your_video.mpg your_video.avi(from http://www.linux.com/feature/53702) Alternatively, tovid or DeVeDe.