Dave 2562 is one of the few dubstep producers that I rate highly. I recently made his acquantance through our mutual friend Craig (aka Monkeytek). Really nice guy and very talented producer.
BSODomizer
(Warning: NSFW!) Joe Grand and Zoz Brooks prank Dr. Mike North with the BSODomizer, an inline VGA device that fakes the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” on an unwitting victim, and after a few moments will also display the BGoD, or Blue Goatse of Death, if you set the DIP switches properly. Joe, Zoz and Mike along with Terry Sandin are the hosts of Prototype This, a kick-ass show on the Discovery Channel where they take crazy ideas (six-legged all terrain vehicle, self-parking truck) and put them through 2-weeks of rapid prototyping to see if their ideas can be made reality. Joe Grand is also on the technical advisory board of MAKE Magazine and has co-hosted a few of their Weekend Projects podcasts with Bre Pettis.
Hyperactive - Lasse Gjertsen
Beatbox video editing is like a micro-niche unto itself. There’s some great parodies/imitations in the related videos, like Beatboxing Dog (and some bad ones too).
To blog or not to blog…
For a while now I’ve been pondering what to do with this blog, realizing that I don’t actually blog a whole lot, but still want someplace to have a focal point for all of my stuff. I thought about switching to Tumblr or Chyrp, since most of my ‘web output’ these days consists of tweets or video clips, but I really like WordPress and don’t want to go through the hassle of switching platforms. Especially when I can get this kind of functionality with a plugin. Since most of my blogging has been supplanted by tweeting, I experimented briefly with Alex King’s awesome Twitter Tools but realized that reading a week’s worth of tweets is actually kind of annoying.
I’ve found lately that I really enjoy FriendFeed and that its ‘life stream’ format is actually really appealing to read and follow. I’m going to test out that format with two WordPress plugins that implement similar functionality (David Cramer’s Lifestream plugin and Elliott Back’s WP Lifestream plugin). Hopefully I’ll get the desired effect I’m looking for and it won’t completely suck.
Once I sort this out I hope to also get back to occasionally writing about stuff again. Until then, Martha is doing an awesome job of keeping Eloise’s blog updated over at http://fourone.org/eloise/.
