Nicholas Feltron is the creator of Daytum – the home of collecting and communicating your daily data. A service to which I have no invite to as of yet but I hope to gain invitation in the near future.
For the last several years he has tracked everything from mileage walked to food eaten during the year and then published a high quality report about it all. Pretty interesting stuff. Useless I suppose, but interesting nevertheless.
Or this post could also be titled – Hey Autumn, I found a Muxtape alternative
I’ve actually know about the open source Muxtape alternative called Opentape for a while but it wasn’t until this evening that I actually sat down to set it up.
While not having the fantastic ability to jump from favorited playlist to playlist, it does capture the simplistic nature of the original.
Opentape is self hosted, meaning that all of the files are on my server thus potentially not running as efficiently as Muxtape once did. While it will never fully fill the hole left in your heart when Muxtape was overthrown, let me know if you’d like your own Opentape set up to share some songs and I will get it ready for you.
Note: Let me know if you see an error on first load. It has something to do with the Flash player behind the Opentape and not the Opentape itself. If you hit the continue button it should go away and the tracks will play fine.
There’s no chance I would ever even claim to want to attempt something like this but it is crazy to watch.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
(via A Tiny Pixel)
Two things of note:
1. I love Vimeo. They do video better than any site out there.
2. I’m sorry for the lack of any communication the last few days. My MBP is at the doctor and I probably should have taken a trip myself. Working off this Dell reminds me constantly why the Mac market grows daily.
I’m usually pretty plugged in on the latest and greatest viral videos of the Interwebs but somehow I missed the following video during its 2008 heyday. I’ve never ridden a Segway but they have always looked like tons of fun. Add the fun factor to the fact that they’re easy enough for monkeys to ride and I think I might just have to ask our local mall cop for a spin.
Thankfully my life is full of less Microsoft products than it used to be.
I once thought about picking up a MS Zune mp3 player on woot, thankfully I talked myself out of it: http://gizmodo.com/5121311/reports-30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once
To summarize: If you have a 30GB Zune this morning, it doesn’t work anymore.