February 2012
13 posts
“They’re made out of meat.”
– Terry Bisson’s “They are made out of meat”
Most excellent (via Alex)
January 2012
37 posts
Владимир Высоцкий - Песня про козла...
“There are so many music/entertainment websites that copy one another, scrambling...”
– Daytrotter.com radiates passion. This is from their about page.
“The last thing we need to do is encourage our customers to stare at their...”
– Mark Cuban on apps that augment sports events. Same can be easily said about concerts. Sorry, startups. (via Ian)
gdal2tiles.py semi-transparent border issue
It turns out that if you try to use gdal2tiles.py (and other utilities that are based on it, like MapTiler) to make Google Maps-compatible tiles out of an image, the software arbitrarily adds a border to certain sides of your generated map.
This happens because while interpolating your tiles, gdal2tiles gets confused by missing data around the edges of your input image. There are bugs open about...
“The 2-person company solves a big problem for more financially secure couples,...”
– - TC on Be Couply
If we held a competition on eroding the value of social gestures, this one would do well. More on this earlier.
Happy new year! Thanks for being with us in 2011 →
+ a quick overview of what we’ve been upto.
