Johnny Lee is a minor god

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:39:06 -0800

Not content with previous hacks using the Wii remote - such as a multi-touch display and a cheapo interactive whiteboard - the rampant coolness that is Johnny Chung Lee has just posted a video which demonstrates head tracking using the Wii controller.

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

"Oh", you might be thinking, "Oh Simon, where did it all go wrong. You keep using this word 'cool' but I do not think it means what you think it means".

The money shot is 2:45 in - I'm not ashamed to say that it made me a little aroused.

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I get too tight I come undone

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:02:49 -0700

It's the first sunny weekend we've had in ages. In fact it's the first weekend we've had for a while in which ones mind hasn't immediately turned to Revelations 12:15 or wondered if perhaps the marketing push for Evan Almighty might not have gone a leeeetle too far.

And yet I'm inside, hacking. Partly because last night ate at a restaurant that serves burritos the size of your head so I'm feeling kind of sluggish this morning but mostly because I'm stupid.

Anyway, I wrote a tool to back up your Vox last week but, it occurred to me that not everyone has the will or way to download a bunch of Perl modules, install them and then run the script.

So I've been nice and written VoxSlurp which is neither Web2.0 -ey or Ajaxy but should make it easy for you to download all your public posts as an Mbox file (which most mail readers will understand - under Outlook do 'File -> Import -> Internet Mail and Addresses -> Eudora and then navigate to the mbox file you've just downloaded).

Ain't I nice.

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Johnny Lee is a minor god

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