war kayaking
find wireless in a kayak. as the summer approaches, i crawl out of my protective wired covered lair to sometimes partake in outdoor activity. last weekend, i went kayaking around lake union in seattle, wa and of course, i couldn’t help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided i’d hunt for open wireless spots, this my friends- was “war kayaking” i found a ton, charted it with gps, wifi finders and now i’ll show you how we did it. i also shot a video, be sure to check that out too.
pirate radio for your ipod
this was going to be “how-to increase the range of your itrip mini” hack . but after playing around with the new itrip mini, the fm broadcasting accessory for the ipod (review here) my little mind got working on some ideas. i thought i might be able to make the range of griffin’s itrip mini a little better if i took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out i could. and then i thought, hey- i could use a couple ipods to broadcast something i wanted to get out there, perhaps not “should” that is, but could. so that was my motivation, and here’s the how-to.
artwork going back up..
slowly but surely, i'm putting my artwork back up on the site. stay tuned for more.
and something else.
life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. most fails. some works. you do more of what works. if it works big, others quickly copy it. then you do something else. the trick is the doing something else.
listen to the universe on your ipod
the new york times had a great story about dr. mark whittle, a professor of astronomy at the university of virginia who has taken the cosmic background radiation of the universe and made a series of sounds. i made the sounds available in mp3 format so you can listen to them on your computer, ipod or whatever. also, if you'd like to read more about dr. mark whittle's work visit his site, there are a lot of presentations and information regarding big bang acoustics.