Gomez – Whatever’s On Your Mind

The new Gomez video is simple and lovely:

If you’re releasing an album, you should have at least some kind of video for each track. Surely you have a video camera and know of an interesting location?
Hell, upload all of your tracks to Vimeo with a still picture of your album cover, then replace with “proper” videos when you’ve made them.

Home Power Meters in Australia

Just doing some research on home power meters, because I’m almost a homeowner and all.

It turns out that the “ClimateSmart” meters which are installed for free by the Brisbane city council are actually rebadged “Efergy Elite” units.

There’s been a couple of mentions around the place of people hacking these devices to get proper networked data out of them, but nothing conclusive so far.

I’m thinking a better option might be the  Current Cost Envi, which is compatible with Google Powermeter.

There’s some CurrentCost apps on Pachube, too.

Tool Ensembles – Koto and Fibonacci

Just caught this beautiful video of Tool’s Lateralus arranged for 8 koto players:

Which led me to the Fibonacci sequence within Lateralus:

Such a stupendous piece of music, made with Science!

Girls with video cameras

While gently nuzzling the grindstone this morning, I’ve had a browser tab open playing lovely DIY videos of ladies who make music. Things are more bearable this way.

Outkast – Hey Ya, by an awesome uke-wielding Irish girl called Orla:

Aaaaand, Lady Gaga – Telephone, by two people pretending to be Many People.

Lovely.

Tuning SBS using MythTV and a DVICO Capture Card on Ubuntu in Brisbane

I’ve been fiddling around with Ubuntu + MythTV for a while on the Small Form Factor machine I’d previously been carting around the country for gigs. After a reasonably excessive number of reinstalls, I finally got both MythTV and Boxee working, with the caveat that I couldn’t tune SBS, Australia’s second-best TV channel behind ABC.

It turns out that MythTV’s channels.conf file doesn’t quite work for some people. After Googling around multiple times in the intervening months since installation, I finally discovered the solution for various people has been to slightly change the frequency that MythTV searches. For Brisbane it changes to 585791667.

To edit this, open MythTV Backend Setup. Go to Channel Editor > Transport Editor

My MythTV setup shipped with 5 transports.

585500000 is for SBS in the UHF frequency band. Unfortunately, this wouldn’t tune for me. So it needs to be updated to 585791667.

After saving this and re-scanning, I got SBS1, 2, 3, 4 and HD showing up in my Channel List! Superb.

The Red Mullet

The Red Mullet – 2006 Shiraz Grenache Mourvedre Tempranillo. Very lovely.

Spleen Minus 10 Hours, Rockstar Second Thoughts

In the month since the coming of the spleening, it seems to have gone slightly viral. In the good, web way! Featured on Make:Blog, and insanely popular blog of political writer Andrew Sullivan. The main video has currently been viewed over 12,000 times. Yikes.

It’s also been picked up by a nice Spanish guy, an awesome French visualist type, and a bunch of other places around the world… I was thinking about taking my skeleton/spleen on tour, but then my surgeon emailed me back yesterday to tell me that she would allow me to get some of the laparoscope footage of my surgery. So I think I’m going to go through with it.

10 hours to go.

Thorn Clarke Cab Sav

Good stuff. Apparently about AU$15/bottle.

Fig & mascapone gelati

From Amo Gelati in Noosaville = freaking amazing

Buddypress and bbPress resources

I’m doing a bunch of Buddypress and bbPress stuff at the moment, so here’s some interesting links:

Buddypress/WPMU Community Blogs: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=660 (download: http://buddypressdev.org/plugins/community-blogs/)
Buddypress content tagging for groups: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1304
Lots of Buddypress stuff at BuddyPressDev.org, including plugins.

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