Wow - this alternate trailer for The Shinning blew me away! I don’t know what is scarier - the movie itself or how easily our perceptions can be altered by a voiceover, a bit of music and some selective editing. Watch the trailer from the source or a local mirrored copy. Via Kottke.org.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Earlier this summer I was playing around with Tiddlywiki and after a few hours of experimentation I came up with Wiktionary, a wiki of web technology terms which I just posted to the MEdTech Labs site.
Although I was impressed with the original and lightweight version of TiddlyWiki, I choose to implement Wiktionary using MyWiki, a server-side offshot of TiddlyWiki. Wiktionary stores the definitions as pieces of mircocontent (or tiddlers) just like TiddlyWiki does but writes the data to a file on the server as opposed to a local HTML file. This allows for the wiki to persist over time and supports multiple contributions, all accomplished without the overhead of a database or a single page refresh.
Wiktionary and MyWiki are just two of many adaptations of the ever versatile TiddlyWiki. For more information on adaptations to TiddlyWiki, check out TiddlyWiki Mania.
Originally published June 14, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
The Department of Anatomy at the Univeristy of Toronto has just released Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts, a web-based tutorial which includes some very high-quality Flash animations. Not only have they made the tutorial available to other institutions, but each of the animations used in the tutorial is available for download and use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs license. This means that teachers can use the animations in their lectures and include them when creating thier tutorials, provided of course that they do not alter them in accordance with the no derivatives restriction. Sharing these animations is a step in the right direction towards open knowledge and it would be great to see these animations added to the various repositories such as HealthLibrary.ca and Heal.
Originally published September 23, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
I just created and published my very first iMix, Even Better Than The Real Thing on the iTunes Music Store. The iMix is made of up covers and remixes that are drastically different from the originals and in some cases even better. Unfortunately, not all of the songs made it to the list as they aren’t yet available on iTunes, so here’s the full list with links whenever possible :
- Blue Monday - Flunk
- Cherry Blossom Sk8er - Air vs. Avril Lavine (Mashup by Prosac)
- Fallen (Satoshi Tomiie Mix) - Sarah McLachlan
- Days Go By (Acoustic) - Dirty Vegas
- Everlong (Acoustic) - Foo Fighters
- Hurt - Johnny Cash
- In a Manner of Speaking - Nouvelle Vague
- In Da Club (Remix) - Beyonce Knowles
- Love Will Tear Us Apart - Nouvelle Vague
- Lover’s Spit (Redux) - Broken Social Scene
- Closer (Nine Inch Nails) - String Quartet
- Romeo (Acoustic) - Basement Jaxx
- Since U Been Hard To Find - Kelly Clarkson vs. American Analog (Mashup By Aggro1)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit - Paul Anka
- Vox (Tom Middleton Mix) - Sarah McLachlan
- With or Without You - U2 vs. Daft Punk (Mashup by
Mixed From Bed6Q from the Mixed From Bed series) - Wonderwall - Paul Anka
- World On Fire (Junkie XL Club Mix / GM Edit)