This is what happens when campers at the MSI Computer Camps get a hold of your picture and find out that you use an Macbook and play Starcraft 2. …
Author: kylesmyth
What an Astronaut's Camera Sees
The best part about becoming an astronaut would not be actually going into space, but being able to view the beautiful from such perspective. …
Script to check if a Justin.tv stream is live.
I help run a website called SaskGamers.com, a few of the users on this site stream their in-game view over the internet for others to see. I tried to mimic teamliquid.net’s Live User Stream pane. At first I wrote this in JavaScript, but then I realized that essentially what I was did was a cross-site scripting attack, scrapped that and wrote it in PHP.
The Dark Side of the Lens
DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo. …
The Perfect Ventrilo Keybind
So if you are like me and use Ventrilo / Teamspeak to talk with your friends, you have probably been forced to chose a key to map “Push to Talk” to. Some may choose a mouse button, others a key.
In the beginning I had bound my Mouse4 button to talk, but this proved to be problematic because in a web browser it was the “back” hotkey. Meaning whenever I was browsing the internet and wanted to talk I would lose the page I was looking at. …
A Nice Cup of Tea
George Orwell provides a fantastic tea recipe that demonstrates several reason as to why tea is not enjoyed in North America. The idea is that we’re brewing it wrong.
I cringe every time I see someone be satisfied with grocery store bought tea bags or plunge a dozen teaspoons of sugar or honey in their cup.
Although most of the tea I drink comes from China or Japan and thus requires a different method than the detailed instructions for Indian tea, the same principles can be applied. …
Usage based Internet billing puts Canada one step back into a third world country
Canada already has some of the slowest and most expensive Internet rates in the first world and its about to get significantly worse. Earlier last week the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that Internet service providers (ISP) could start metering bandwidth (Usage-based billing). …
STS-124 Launch w/ Sound
This is by far one of the most amazing thing’s I have ever seen.
Korean Air Ongamenet Starleague Season 2 Commercials
So cute.
Alexis Ohanian's TED Talk
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com gives a very interesting, although brief TED talk about the internet!