http://www.iwantmi.com/hairdresser/ soon to be changing the way you find that illusive hair care technician you loved but who’d left the salon in a rush.
The salon wont tell you where they’ve gone, that’s really not in their interest, and now there’s no-one who really knows how to remove that frizz, get the colour just right, or tame that fringe in quite the same way.
Well all will be better soon, with the launch of IwantMi/Hairdresser a directory of UK hairdressers and salons, free to use by anyone and free to be listed in.
Keep your eyes on this one….
http://www.iwantmi.com/hairdresser/

If you’ve ever played with linux and managed to get x11 up and running you’ll very likely have been presented with, or soon found a little app called xeyes. Quite simply it’s two eyballs that follow the mouse pointer as you move it around the desktop.
Well Hunz wanted to move them into the real world….
“The eyes are made from large pizza boxes cardboard and rolled by RC-servos that are controlled by an ATTiny2313 that’s connected to the PC using the low-speed software usb stack.”
The intriguing and novel part of the hack is that he’s using a video filter plugin for mplayer to do the processing rather than building a custom app.

It’s a little short on details at the mo, but he says he will post more details.

Real Life Xeyes

Via Hackaday

I hang around on b3ta.com a bit, and for their recent image challenge the topic was..
“Real life cartoons.
Elmer Fudd pesky wabbit control? President Brain and vice president Pinky? What would happen if you took cartoon characters and put them in the real world?.” So I had to have a go. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob runs the lovely Lineout Records and here’s one of their latest press release type things,

‘”End of an Error” is the follow-up to the “Music to Crash Cars”, the debut album of the UK outfit Deathboy. The album which has been three years in the making was produced by Rico (Gary Numan, Tricky) and John Fryer (NIN, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode) and holds artwork created by Chad Michael Ward (Marilyn Manson, the Cruxshadows).’

Go buy it, it’s great.

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Or Camden and the Tate Modern Part 2

I had the pleasure of attending the Where It’s At Is Where You Are christmas shindig at the 12 Bar on Denmark street yesterday. WIAIWYA is run by the lovely Jon Jervis who was a one time resident of sunny Maidenhead but has managed to escape. He’s responsible for releasing some extremely fine pop from hip and happening beat combos around the world.
I was ostensibly there to see Marky and JC in their ‘Now We Are Six’ guise. Last christmas they put together a CD of carols arranged in their own inimitable style and, for those that missed it, it has resurfaced this year as a double CD of festive cheer. As well as compéring the night and providing the alternative activities between sets they performed a selection of these yuletide offerings. Read the rest of this entry »

For the first time in ages I made it in to London yesterday for a bit of a mosey around before going to see JC and Marky play a gig. The trip involved shopping, culture music and comes as a 2-part blog.
If I’m going to have to pay out for a travelcard I feel I might as well maximise it’s potential so I decided that I’d go get a bit of standard culture before the pop culture. I met up with Benny and we headed of towards the big smoke. Read the rest of this entry »

Or “Squeezing it where Microsoft wont put it.”

I have been running Xbox Media Centre (hereafter XBMC) on my chipped Xbox for over a year now. It’s a handy and cheap way to be able to play multimedia files and DVD’s through my TV and amplifier well away from where I keep my p.c. XBMC is a really nicely written peice of software, although it does rely on being compiled with tools that leave it in a legal grey area. For more info see http://www.xboxmediacenter.de/.

Currently much of my media is still stored on the p.c. and streamed over the network to the Xbox, but I will soon be upgrading the harddrive to turn it into the primary media store for the network and so will be streaming back to the p.c. in future. But before that happens, it’s time to make it all look a bit nicer. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the ever changing blog at jentulman.co.uk.

This post marks a return to regular site updates after a year and a bit off due to ill health. A hardware failure has lead to all the previous content being not so much lost as left in a fairly unusable form, but when I can be bothered to to do the (loads) of typing required I’ll try to fill in some of the past.

Up coming posts to include news on Pinstripe Records and it’s inception, and details of the new “shoehorn an xbox into a new case” project.