Bastard kitty is ready for nite nite. Notice how he picks the pillow that
isn’t his… #snap

The 2008 Weblog awards are coming around, and there is a nominee that is desperately trying to get out of second place. I met the folks at Bilerico Project during the blog summit in DC, and after seeing me dance half nekkid at the Town Dance Boutique, they asked me to be a contributor (quite possibly it could be just because I can write good).  You should totally vote for them, cause a vote for them is a vote for me. Tell all your friends too!

You don’t even have to sign up or nothing, just visit this link and VOTE FOR BILERICO!

*I think today is the last day to vote so please do it today!

Back in November, I wrote about the discovery that while Multi-touch wasn’t available on the HTC Dream (aka the T-Mobile G1), the Synaptics screen had the capabilities for two-fingered gestures. This was discovered by developer Ryan Gardner, who found that the kernal driver had lines commented out that watched for the second input. His methods were simple, though it required a recompile, and a flurry of rumors started as to why multi-touch was disabled if the G1 had screens to support it. HTC and Google stayed out of it, with only HTC stepping up once to say that the G1 was only ever meant to be a single touch device.

However, the Android community wouldn’t take no for an answer, and today we have working evidence that should bring more light into what the G1 can do in terms of Multi-touch, and why it will never be supported, on the G1 at least.

Android Developer Luke Hutch has managed to activate multi-touch without having to recompile the kernal, and only rewriting one classfile. He has a video demonstrating his application, and explains the current limitations of mulititouch.

Luke says that the Synaptics screen is not a true 2D touchscreen, but rather a 2×1D, which basically means that it’s hella responsive for single input, but would cause overlapping touchvalues when fingers cross the x or y axis. He does show that gestures like swipe and pinch would work, but rotation and other complex gestures would not be possible on the current hardware.

What does this mean?

Nothing. Unless the Android Source team decides to support this (read: NO), it will never make it on the G1. It would also be foolish for developers to write gesture only applications at this time, seeing that the only people to benefit are developers themselves. This is not an end-user solution, and though the community is still looking for official multi-touch on the G1, the answer today is still “well, yes.. but no.”

You can check out his very detailed explaination, as well as download the sourcecode for free at his site: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/android-stuff/

If you ever needed proof that Main St is dated, there you go… #snap

So my Birthday is coming up next Friday and I was thinking how awesome it would be if all the people glued to my lifestream would Chip In and get me a present. Consider it  for the peek I give you into my life. It would really encourage me to give back more, and I’d cherish for ever…

I don’t want much, I was actually going to ask for a new harddrive for the ole macbook pro, but I found something more frivolous and awesome: Frank Kozik’s SDCC 2008 colorway for Salary Ika, available at rotofugi for 110 bucks. If you read my blog then you know my love for vinyl, my obsession for Kozik, and my fascination with this particular figure.

The colorway is an exclusive SDCC (San Diego Comic Con) 2008 colorway, featuring a clear body stuffed full of shredded money,  lightly airbrushed to tint. Salary Ika is part of the Super 7 series, and is produced by InTheYellow.

If you would like to make my Birthday wish come true, please click on the Chip In widget below, or on my sidebar to the right. It will take you to a paypal page where you can send money via paypal, or use your credit card of choice (look for the link on the bottom left of the paypal page). $5 dollars, $10 dollars, $50 any little bit will help. The fund will last till the 16th, which is my birthday. I’ll be 23 in case you were wondering.

UPDATE: Thanks to two incredible donations of $60 and $50  from John and Joe respectively – two people I have never met (that I know of) but who have become honorary sugar daddies – I reached my birthday wish in an hour and the Salary Ika is on his way to my grateful arms! You guys rock!

If you wanted to donate, you still can, I could use the money for other things, like web hosting costs, booze, birthday lapdances, Excedrin for my post Blowoff hangover… But I’m truly grateful for all of it. Thanks!

It turns out that the DVI ports on a Macbook Pro are DVI-I, meaning it can
output as analog and I can use the apple DVI – video adapter to pipe out
visuals via VDMX at the club. #snap. Now all we need is a video mixer and
I’m all set.

Technically its disco fries, the New Jersey bastardization (sp?) of poutine
made with colby cheese, but geographically acceptable as poutine. Only at
Jims steakout. This food requires a firm knowledge of your GI tract, or you
will pay. Dearly. This #snap is by Huw, for his Brodie, who can’t believe
the food of his motherland can be found outside the borders…

Now i love me some electro, but I also love distortion. Adam Kesher is from France, and his style of garage rock sounds a lot like Bloc Party without all the studio touchups (I still love you Kele!). Speaking of Electro, I first heard of Kesher when I came across the Strip Steve Remix to his “Irene.” There is just something gritty and loverly about Adam Kesher, and his video for “Local Girl” will make you want to dig a little deeper. I suggest heavily that you buy all of his music from Amazon (yes iTunes just went all DRM-free, but Amazon doesn’t cram that gnarly aac format in your face and it’s .89 cents a song as opposed to .99 for iTunes).

This is the time when Buffalo sucks… the Wintery Mix. Boots do not help…
you need spikes or stay the fuck home. Thankfully, at the moment, above
freezing temps and rain have kept the ice slightly crunchy… #snap

This is it: the final keynote, and the last Macworld with Apple as a direct participator. Phill Schiller will be delivering the “One More Thing,” keynote, as Steve Jobs, who is NOT dying, wanted to spend time with his family. The keynote starts NOW so check after the jump for all details.. refresh and repeat.

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