Being Matt Hallett

Japanese companies are quite crooked and have the government in their pocket… they did this with cars by making people need to get a $2000 to $4000 inspection every 2 years on their car…. now it appears that consumer electronics are in the same boat… FOR SECURITY REASONS?! come on!?

Quoted: So from April 1st 2006, ALL electronic products sold in Japan before 2001 will be prohibited from the 2nd hand market!

This is a pretty darn good review of the best new/promising Web 2.0 apps… That term is getting pretty cliche, but appropriate sometimes I guess.

Quoted: It’s been almost three months since my last major roundup of Web 2.0 software and I thought it’s about time to release another update. The pace of innovation in the next generation of online software has continued unabated and we’ve seen dozens

This is an epic software solution for media. This in my opinion (along with iTunes video download) is going to revolutionize media distribution to the masses. Perfect solution for those with video players but no good/dependable source of fresh content. Simply subscribe to an internet TV channel, and this will automatically download content to your pc night & day…. Also deletes watched files so that you don’t have extra crap laying around on your PC (like a Tivo). It’s FREE and OPEN Source!!! Better and Better content is coming out each day.

Quoted: Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guid

New Camera for me.

Ok, my Canon Powershot SD300 finally went tits up. I carry my camera with me every day… So I figure that if I have a camera for a year, that’s like 3 years for an average person.
So I bought a new camera. At first I thought it was going to be a Costco Rent-To-Eventually-Return, but I’m actually falling in love with it. It takes pretty darn good picts, and messes up only occasionally more compared to my old SD300, but it has so many awesome ’swiss army knife features’, that I’m actually in love. Plus it’s really tiny and a great price (like just above 200 on ebay). It’s the Casio EX-S500. What’s funny is that my first digital camera was a Casio and the ’swiss army knife features’ on that were also unmatched for a really really long time.

This is a great blog… it shows the massive amounts of work that NBC puts into covering the Olympics this year, and will all the technical Juicy bits too…. Funny that with all that work, they only broadcast for like 3 hours a day. Silly.

Quote: A worker at NBC’s MASSIVE broadcast center in Torino posts pics of their modular, easily-transported racks of gear (lots of wires/fiber included), and answers detailed questions that you’d never think of

This is from my friend Audrey… very sweet stuff.

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 in the NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience.