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A Java app to play a yoga sequence, with bings to indicate asana progress and completion. By default it plays a quick version (about 25 minutes including warmup and savasana) of the basic Sivananda sequence, minus crow, which I can't really do. To change sequence and timing, edit the source code, included in the jar and and released under GPLv3. It's compiled for Java 1.6+.

yoga.jar

Practice yoga at your own risk. The Sivananda sequence includes headstand, shoulder-stand and plow, which can be dangerous.

Hosts in the same subnet are on the same data link and are therefore able to address each other directly by link layer (MAC) address. To communicate with hosts in other subnets, hosts send frames to their gateway.

On boot, a host applies its subnet mask (using logical AND) to its own IP address to find its network address. When sending packets, the host applies the subnet mask to destination addresses, and if a destination address is in the same network as the host, the host uses the ARP protocol (or NDP in IPv6) to resolve the destination host's MAC address and sends frames directly to that MAC. If the destination address is in a different network, the host sends frames to the gateway MAC (also resolved using ARP) and the gateway deals with internetwork routing.

I drove to the Rockies last week (to visit the Burgess Shale!) and I listened to the CBC Ideas Climate Wars podcast on the way. I really enjoyed the hypothetical scenarios, so I've transcribed them here.

This is something I wrote last summer for Ellen Moffat, a Saskatoon artist. It's a very lightweight Java component that uploads files to a Gallery 2 photo album. (I really wanted to re-use the "official" Gallery 2 Java client, but it was impossible to use without launching the UI, so it turned out to be easier just to write this little doo-dad.)

If you run it as-is, a button pops up that lets you select one file at a time to upload to my test album. It's meant to be integrated into other Java apps, though, so if you want to use it in your own project, extract the source from the jar and use GalleryExample.java and UploadObserver.java as a model of how to control and handle events from the uploader. Compiled for Java 1.5+.

• gallery2.jar

Check the test album.

I originally built this for Ellen's twicescore project. With Ellen's permission, I offered this code to the Gallery folks, but I never heard back, so I'll just distribute it here. Use it as you like.

A while ago I was fiddling with the paleo maps by Dr. Ron Blakey at Northern Arizona U and I discovered that his Rectangular Global Maps wrap very easily around Google Earth.

• tectonics.kmz

This .kmz file sets the images in a time series converted from Ma to years BC. In Google Earth. you should see a Time slider at top right that lets you play the series or drag the slider back and forth to see the continents move through time. Set repeat and bounce for maximum coolness.

You might have to turn off other layers to see the tectonics maps properly.

I've been reading Steven Jay Gould's Wonderful Life lately, and I think I've finally found something worth traveling to see. The The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation offers Guided Hikes. Here's a .kmz file containing the location of the Burgess Shale in Google Earth. (Like so many places I'm interested in, it's just outside a high resolution area. What is that, anyways?)

In an ideal future, I'll get laid off early next year and spend the summer traveling on my package while I wait for pogey to kick in. (I fear my employer will require my services until at least fall of next year, however.) Another destination on the grand tour will certainly be the Colorado Plateau. For a while now I've noticed, without knowing the source, the mapping work done by Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology at Northern Arizona University. I think I might finally understand the attraction. I need to see the Grand Staircase.

There's a short narrated version (5 min) and various edits of a longer version (7.5 min and huge files). Either of the long versions (narrated or labeled with music) is worth the download.

The animation is part of a collection at the Scientific Visualization Studio of the Goddard Space Flight Center. As of this writing, a search by animation ID shows that one of the animators posted something as recently as last Monday, so they're still getting funding!

I've just decommissioned an old weblog I'd filled with links to arty stuff (and redirected the traffic here). For about three years I collected stats to rank the links by hit, and of all the arty (and otherwise) stuff I posted, these 15 got the most hits.

If you're looking for Yeti Sports, you want ..:::YETISPORTS:::... For whatever reason, I posted five Pingu/Yeti Sports links and three made it to the top 15 at #2, 5 and 8.

• #1 webart link: Bloody Pingu. Bloody Pingu is hosted by #11, flabber weblog.
• NSFW has The Dildo Song (#3), Toilet Monster (#6), Silicon Challenge (#7) and Kinky Breakout (#15)
• Viridian Room (#4) is in A list of arty Flash puzzles in increasing order of complexity
• Music Videos has Dirty Kuffar (#9) and Apache Helicopter Attack Video (#14)

Strangely, community site Nordinho.net made the list at #10. Two viral ads squeaked in near the bottom. Splinter Cell (#12) is a Flash video game teaser and Make-a-Flake (#13) seems to be an ad agency's marketing experiment.

Also see Cows and the del.icio.us Webart feed.

Political ones. The bulleted links are to searches of video.google.com that hopefully will turn up the intended target.

• Good Fire Hit Him. Pop-up video of footage from an Apache helicopter. The commander and gunner waste a family of farmers to the tune of The Psychedelic Furs' "Heaven". Originally from Chris King Pop Icon (his URL as of this writing).
• We Fuck The World. Makes me laugh every time. Originally from Les Guignols de l'info.
• Dirty Kuffar. They tell me it's Islamic extremist rap. Let that be your warning.

To take an extreme tangent, Submission isn't a music video, but it's worth watching. It's the little film that got the Dutchman killed a few years ago.

Some cow links I had laying around.

• Cows With Guns. Cows fight for bovine freedom.
• I'm A Cow. Cows in a different kind of bondage.
• Live In Barney's Barn. Record a drum solo and watch it on Mooo-TV. Seriously.
• The Meatrix Films. Moophius offers the red pill.

And somewhat related Weebl's Stuff:

• Pork. The cannibalism theme is kinda creepy.
• Kenya. Lions and tigers for sale to the geographically challenged.