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digits.dinosaurseateverybody.com
Every number is the answer to something.
I've always been an armchair math geek and I've thought that numbers are interesting. After looking at all the interesting things that people have taken stats and made calculations about I figured I'd make a collection of facts based on their numerical answer. It turned out to be pretty interesting, especially once I allowed people to submit their own facts. I have the groundwork layed for a simple API for this, if I wanted to make that available in the future.
digits.dinosaurseateverybody.com
Every number is the answer to something.
I've always been an armchair math geek and I've thought that numbers are interesting. After looking at all the interesting things that people have taken stats and made calculations about I figured I'd make a collection of facts based on their numerical answer. It turned out to be pretty interesting, especially once I allowed people to submit their own facts. I have the groundwork layed for a simple API for this, if I wanted to make that available in the future.
Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Wiki
wiki.dinosaurseateverybody.com
The Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Wiki was mainly started as a way for me to play with MediaWiki, the wiki software that Wikipedia is built on. It turned into a cool collection of inside jokes among friends, a good documentation of hilarious ideas, and a great resource for beer pong rules.
wiki.dinosaurseateverybody.com
The Dinosaurs Eat Everybody Wiki was mainly started as a way for me to play with MediaWiki, the wiki software that Wikipedia is built on. It turned into a cool collection of inside jokes among friends, a good documentation of hilarious ideas, and a great resource for beer pong rules.
Team Hamster Hat
www.teamhamsterhat.com
Team Hamster Hat is the brainchild of me and my buddy Jeff Abell. Back in college we ran a website called The Voice of Reason that was full of amusing (though probably not as amusing as we thought) commentary and articles about weird topics like Dutch ovens and Tony Little. As time went on The Voice faded out of existance but our spark for letting people know what they think was never extinguished. Spurred by an excuse to buy things off TV and play with them, the seeds for Team Hamster Hat were sown. After months of periodic discussion the site began to take shape and was launched in 2008 with the goal of being informative, yet stupid.
www.teamhamsterhat.com
Team Hamster Hat is the brainchild of me and my buddy Jeff Abell. Back in college we ran a website called The Voice of Reason that was full of amusing (though probably not as amusing as we thought) commentary and articles about weird topics like Dutch ovens and Tony Little. As time went on The Voice faded out of existance but our spark for letting people know what they think was never extinguished. Spurred by an excuse to buy things off TV and play with them, the seeds for Team Hamster Hat were sown. After months of periodic discussion the site began to take shape and was launched in 2008 with the goal of being informative, yet stupid.
Last.fm Fan Finder
fanfinder.dinosaurseateverybody.com
Fans of artists similar to your band should be fans of your band, right? Last.fm Fan Finder helps find users who are listening to artists similar to your band, but aren't listening to you.
The Last.fm Fan Finder started as an excuse to play around with the Last.fm API and provide a helpful resource to fellow musicians. It just made sense to me that if fans could be recommended new artists, artists should be recomemended new fans. This seems like a much better system than the blind carpet bombing that happens on MySpace. I ended up making use of the PHP Last.fm API for this project, which was a great help.
fanfinder.dinosaurseateverybody.com
Fans of artists similar to your band should be fans of your band, right? Last.fm Fan Finder helps find users who are listening to artists similar to your band, but aren't listening to you.
The Last.fm Fan Finder started as an excuse to play around with the Last.fm API and provide a helpful resource to fellow musicians. It just made sense to me that if fans could be recommended new artists, artists should be recomemended new fans. This seems like a much better system than the blind carpet bombing that happens on MySpace. I ended up making use of the PHP Last.fm API for this project, which was a great help.
pugpugpug
www.twitter.com/pugpugpug
Twitter is interesting. It's pretty stupid, but also pretty fun and it has a great API to program against. One day I was in the mood to do something weird so I decided to set up a Twitter account for my friends' dog (a pug). Later I decided it would be fun to automate his posts (which consist of random dog noises), so I started playing around with Twitter and a few hours later, pugpugpug was up and running. It's a totally pointless little project, but it still amuses me.
www.twitter.com/pugpugpug
Twitter is interesting. It's pretty stupid, but also pretty fun and it has a great API to program against. One day I was in the mood to do something weird so I decided to set up a Twitter account for my friends' dog (a pug). Later I decided it would be fun to automate his posts (which consist of random dog noises), so I started playing around with Twitter and a few hours later, pugpugpug was up and running. It's a totally pointless little project, but it still amuses me.
GIGS Feed
gigs.dinosaurseateverybody.com
There are a lot of websites out there that allow musicians to make profiles. One crucial aspect, common to all of these sites, is the ability to post upcoming shows. With musicans using mulitple music promotion sites (along with their own website) it is very inconvient to update shows on each indivdually. A GIGS Feed allows show scheduals to be published in one place and subsribed to by any number of other services, the way RSS works for news and blogs.
GIGS (Gig Information Getting Syndicated) is an XML based markup language that I created after running into this issue of updating shows in multiple locations for my own bands. GIGS is also a sweet recursive backronym.
gigs.dinosaurseateverybody.com
There are a lot of websites out there that allow musicians to make profiles. One crucial aspect, common to all of these sites, is the ability to post upcoming shows. With musicans using mulitple music promotion sites (along with their own website) it is very inconvient to update shows on each indivdually. A GIGS Feed allows show scheduals to be published in one place and subsribed to by any number of other services, the way RSS works for news and blogs.
GIGS (Gig Information Getting Syndicated) is an XML based markup language that I created after running into this issue of updating shows in multiple locations for my own bands. GIGS is also a sweet recursive backronym.
The Infinite Code Monkey Project
In development...
The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
If this is the case, as the mathematical proof states, then I'm lead to believe that an infinite number of code monkeys should be able to produce a decent website. While many terrible web designers have shown that this is no trival task even for some humans to complete I have great faith in the abilities of monkeys. Unfortunatly budget contraints and numerous protests from animal rights groups have provented me from hiring real monkeys code 'round the clock, so I have been forced to develop a code "monkey" and rely on visitor to a site to help me with this great experiment! When people vist this site a random string is generated and tested against a very minimal structure of a website, an incarnation of the Team Hamster Hat home page, and (just for grins) the lyrics of Jonathan Coulton's song Code Monkey.
In development...
The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
If this is the case, as the mathematical proof states, then I'm lead to believe that an infinite number of code monkeys should be able to produce a decent website. While many terrible web designers have shown that this is no trival task even for some humans to complete I have great faith in the abilities of monkeys. Unfortunatly budget contraints and numerous protests from animal rights groups have provented me from hiring real monkeys code 'round the clock, so I have been forced to develop a code "monkey" and rely on visitor to a site to help me with this great experiment! When people vist this site a random string is generated and tested against a very minimal structure of a website, an incarnation of the Team Hamster Hat home page, and (just for grins) the lyrics of Jonathan Coulton's song Code Monkey.
Dull Roar
In planning stage...
I spend a lot of time in coffee shops. I like hanging out in them to do work. They are great shared spaces and a lot of people there have laptops. This seemed like a great opertunity to do some cool social music stuff. Dull Roar would be a system to socially control music in any shared space where people have internet access.
In planning stage...
I spend a lot of time in coffee shops. I like hanging out in them to do work. They are great shared spaces and a lot of people there have laptops. This seemed like a great opertunity to do some cool social music stuff. Dull Roar would be a system to socially control music in any shared space where people have internet access.
Thought Bubble
Not currently active
A few years ago my buddy Mike launched a web comic and wanted me to build a site and basic content management system for him. I had a lot of fun building the back end and started planning out a way to package the system for other web comics to use. All I really have is the base code from his site, but perhaps this project will someday see the light of day. Maybe?
Not currently active
A few years ago my buddy Mike launched a web comic and wanted me to build a site and basic content management system for him. I had a lot of fun building the back end and started planning out a way to package the system for other web comics to use. All I really have is the base code from his site, but perhaps this project will someday see the light of day. Maybe?