"DAController is a wrapper class for use with the proCONTROLL joystick library written by Christian Riekoff for Processing. It encapsulates the two analog sticks and all the buttons found on a typical dual analog controller." Ooh.

"The proCONTROLL library allows Processing to communicate with controll devices like joysticks, joypads but also keyboards and mice." It works quite nicely.

Nice tutorial for exploring AR with Processing. (Yes, I know it's AR, but I also am interested in how this works, so stop your booing in the peanut gallery).

"I’m excited to announce that I’ve been contracted by O’Reilly to write a book about the Microsoft Kinect. The book is tentatively titled Making Things See: Computer Vision with the Microsoft Kinect, Processing, and Arduino. My goal is to introduce users to working with the Kinect’s depth camera and skeleton tracking abilities in their own projects and also to put those abilities in the wider context of the fields of gestural interfaces, 3D scanning, computer animation, and robotics." Nice. Joining this stuff together is *hard*, and getting it into the hands of designers, rather than programmers, is very important.

"This is all very preliminary, but here is a first pass as a Processing Kinect library." Ooh.

"As computer technology has evolved to make artificial images look ever more real - so that the latest generation of shooter and war games will look as realistic as possible - ajpeg is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time." Beautiful.

"Zoom in on that spot there." Blade Runner has a lot to answer for; notably, this.

"We would then take the data generated from these walks and plot them into a computer representation of the area and generate visualisations from that. Building an audiogeography superimposed on the physical landscape with the sound levels as experienced by somebody who would walk through the area." Some nice work from Alper and Kars.

The future of image processing and 3D graphics is awesome, bonkers, sort-of relevant and full of bunnies. Worth a watch.

"Players stand in front of a green screen while the game films them and creates a music video background while they sing. Their performance is then emailed to them or burnt onto a DVD players can take home." Awesome. Unfortunately, the project has been canned. Still, it's worth watching the slightly cringey videos of the developers playing it, because it's a nifty bit of code.

That performance of Billie Jean. But with a Giant White Glove. Brilliant.

"I gave a presentation on Treetop last night at lrug - seemed to go down well. There aren’t many examples of treetop grammars I’ve seen, so it might be useful if you find the main site’s documentation a bit impeneterable." Roland drops some Treetop science, and it looks very useful. Good stuff!

Mapping where people are leaving and arriving based on nothing more than what they said on Twitter. Pretty, and perhaps the beginnings of something quite useful.

Chemically, this makes sense, but I'd never thought this might be possible.

"Today, I made a little application using the Spore API." Specifically, rendering the skeletons of creatures in Processing. Nice.

"The original page, which sadly has since then disappered from the face of the earth, was all about this hidden "demon face" in one of Aphex Twin's tracks, #2 (the long formula) on "Windowlicker". This face was supposed to be viewable with a spectrograph program, so I decided to try it myself." Some fun - and somewhat impressive - decoding of hidden imagery on IDM cds. The Venetian Snares cats are particiuarly great.

Kars releases the source for his travel-time map of the Netherlands. Nice to see the artefact-as-code, as well as the artefact-as-design.

"I had an example, I had some data, and I had a little experience with making things in Processing." Kars explains the thinking behind his time-travel maps, built in Processing. Really nice work.

"Skittle-based beat sequencer, a tangible and edible music interface. This is a prototype developed over the course of two evenings, with a webcam and Processing." Fun!

A brief - but useful - guide to getting data out of the Wii Nunchuck.

Blimey, John.

"cv.jit is a collection of max/msp/jitter tools for computer vision applications." Yasser just showed me these - very impressive, and quite simple, really.

"Funnel is a toolkit to sketch your idea physically, and consists of software libraries and hardware. By using Funnel, the user can handle sensors and/or actuators with various programming languages such as ActionScript 3, Processing, and Ruby."

Using an Asus eeePC as a mobile RAW-processing and viewing platform. Not sure it'd replace Lightroom, but it sure is a nice idea for a mobile preview environment...

"Thom's Quick & Dirty Guide to Color Management: 99% of what you need to know in 1% of the space."

"This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them." Aaron Swartz strikes again. This looks great.

The Processing book. I had a look at blackbeltjones' a few nights ago - big, dense, heavy, paper like a bible. Quite a lovely book, really. Will probably buy it at some point.

Using the Wiimote with Processing, Max/MSP, and a whole load of other things (via OSC) on Mac OS. Fun!

Beautiful: "Anymails is a visualization of my received emails... An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves."

sed is my new best friend. This is very, very useful.

Template maker is "a Python library for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings." Looks super-useful.

Pretty much what I do, anyway, but worth a bookmark nontheless.

Good set of video tutorials on Lightroom. This one - 15 minutes on processing one picture, from original RAW file to a decent final image, is particularly good.

Lots of LR tutorial videos - really must get around to watching these some time.

This might come in handy at somepoint.

Nice essay from Alain Briot; touches on several of my beliefs (which roughly explain the feeling of inadequacy I have with my own pictures).

After a year or two of being completely sold on Textile, I'm really thinking that there's a lot to this Markdown lark. Namely, readability

The ESV Bible team crowdsourced their interlinked search database to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. That turned out quite well for them.

Nice. A tiny little USB I/O board for about twenty-thirty quid. It works with Macs, it works with Processing and Wiring, and it comes from Italy. Probably my way into experimenting with physical interface fun. Time to buy a soldering iron...

Interesting technique for sharpening photos without unsharp mask. Will try this out.

Small bit on searching through textfiles using php