Author Archives: Robojamie

From Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks

June 4th, 2010
Some experimental novels enjoy great success. But imagine an ambitious avant-garde novel that tried to combine experimental content (talking mushrooms as the only characters), and experimental form (printing the novel on playing cards to be shuffled in random order), and an experimental message (preaching the tenets of Scientology), and experimental distribution (advertising on television and [...]
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Bash script to read Twitter statuses out loud

July 31st, 2009
This is a small Bash script that downloads your friends statuses and reads them aloud using the Festival speech synth. You need to download some packages first. On Ubuntu do: sudo apt-get install curl xmlstarlet festival After installing the command is: curl -s -u twitterusername:twitterpassword 'http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=5' | xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//status' -v 'user/screen_name' -o [...]
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NeXTStep Icons Still in OSX Leopard

July 31st, 2009
Windows is known for hanging on to ancient icons. If you go looking in Windows Vista or even 7 you can find icons dating back to the 16-bit era. Mac OS X is not known for this sort of thing, but if you use the single window screenshot short cut, Command + Shift + 4 [...]
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