Rattle & Roll

Just exchanged a handful of rectangle-shaped bits of paper for this plank of wood:

Rattle & Fucking Roll

I’ll know for sure how good the trade was in the coming weeks, depending on how the beast behaves, but I can already tell one thing: Taipei is going to rattle and roll.

You hear that, Taipei? RATTLE & ROLL!!

Taipei’s MRT through the eyes of Microsoft’s Photosynth

It is rare enough to be mentioned: I find Photosynth, a Microsoft-owned program, to be impressive and pleasant enough to use.

It would have been awesome and great and “I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-butter”-good if only the feature it was built around in the first place was usable outside the app, though. Considering it’s an image-based app, it would only have made sense that you could share the pictures in a way that enabled you and your friends to navigate 360 degrees through the pics. Cause that’s what it does within the app.

Once saved to your drive, the pics look like this:

Above is a 90 degrees view inside the metro in Taipei (MRT blue line)

Here is a 180 degrees view of a station (also on the blue line of the MRT):

So you see, it does look nice. But I sure as hell would like for you to be able to navigate through the pics!

Angry Birds glitch

See the little piggy tryind to hide among my birdies? The strangest thing happened: it was propelled here by the explosion of the bird I’d just sent, and did not die from the impact!

The pig eventually died when the birds jumped up to the slinger and it fell to the ground. My highscore on this level is now around 220 000.