http://www.geekport.com Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:30:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realized something today while reading articles from this past week about Charlotte and Dallas light rail systems reporting record passenger counts... If Florida's then-governor and others hadn't started a deceitful FUD campaign about our constitutionally mandated high speed rail system eight years ago, the first phase would be opening ... http://www.geekport.com/2008/07/28/choo-choo/ Across the Business Wire today is the trumpeting that Miley Cyrus has two albums in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200; a feat last achieved by the late Ray Charles. The two albums would be the now triple-platinum Hannah Montana 2 / Meet Miley Cyrus and the new Best ... http://www.geekport.com/2008/03/27/the-selling-power-of-wal-mart/ I'm a big fan of Netflix's recommendation algorithm, and have often used it for deciding on movies on TV as well. For years I have always clicked screen by screen on my DVR and entered the movie titles in to Netflix's search box on my computer and used it's predicted ... http://www.geekport.com/2008/03/05/heartflix/ So say you want to include embed an image into your web page, like this one of my dad taken by my step-mom: It's not a bad image, but doesn't quite have the same impact in this scaled down form factor. It would be nice if you could make my dad a little bit bigger. ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/09/28/content-aware-image-resizing/ Aaron Bockover has been working on a nice patch for Banshee that allows for better parsing of the title metadata found in most shoutcast/icecast/etc internet radio streams, such as those from SomaFM. The neat thing about this is that the data is properly guessed into artist and title, and the Metadata ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/09/25/making-internet-radio-pretty/ Okay, that might be premature since I haven't even bothered checking out the other networks. But tonight was the series premiere of Chuck and the season 2 premiere of Heroes. Heroes was fantastic, but I think I enjoyed Chuck even more. And it's not just because of lovely  Julia Ling, ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/09/25/nbc-wins-monday-nights/ Jordi Mas has begun the roots of a Brain Age type game for GNOME called gbrainy. It's a logic puzzle engine only at the moment but it's hopped it can evolve into a more complete brain training game with arithmetical puzzles, memory puzzles, and color puzzles. He released version 0.1 yesterday ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/23/gbrainy-brain-age-for-gnome/ This evening I decided I didn't really like the generic USB Hard Disk icon my My Book Premium Edition created on my GNOME desktop when plugged in. I found a few images online and took a photo of my own to make some. I figured I'd share them here since my first ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/23/western-digital-my-book-icons-for-nautilus-desktop/ Since updating to the latest Windows Live Writer beta I became unable to post images to Geekport using the WordPress API. After some Google keyword tweaking I was able to find the answer here. Just a quick tweak to a WordPress .php file. http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/23/wndows-liver-writer-wordpress-and-image-publishing/ I decided to go for some all-you-can-eat fried chicken at Golden Corral the other day and noticed two things which are awesome relief for people who get itchy with the thought of people going to the buffet line with dirty hands. First, they had sanitary patty paper boxes scattered around at the ... http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/23/sanitary-door-opener/