Well since there’s this massive viral thing we’ve all come to love, Chatroulette I figured I might as well share some of the videos that have become my “favorites.” Some of them are slightly NSFW but nothing too raunchy. All the videos after the break, and just a warning… they’re not in any particular order.

I saw a post from Jim On Light (@jimonlight) yesterday or the day before about Adobe’s new content aware tools but never got a chance to take a look at it. Today on Digg there was a video with details about it. I’ve included the video after the break but first I want to say that I’m pretty amazed by it. Their content aware “deletion”is absolutely amazing and I simply can’t wait to see it when it comes out.

Well I’m glad to see that I’m not alone on my general hatred towards PowerPoint presentations. The picture below sums up my general feelings pretty damn well!

[Via FlowingData and dataviz]

One hell of an impressively creative use of Chat Roulette. This guy is sitting at a piano playing improv and reacting to what he sees. Watching this really makes me want to go find someone that knows how to play piano.

Today the NYTimes had some amazing new aerial photos of the World Trade Center collapse. I’m not quite sure where they came from (no I didn’t read the article) but the images are spectacular! I suggest you go take a look for yourself.

An issue that I’ve met head on a few times since getting my Blackberry is I’m randomly greeted with a sync error. It’s an error that’s sort of crushing to see, that and it usually screws up whatever it’s trying to sync. Today I did some searching after my contact list went missing and came across a post over at VoIP Tech Chat where they went over a couple of fixes and I’m now going to go over what fixed it for me.

First I was greeted with this:

Where proceeded to try to retry a couple of times before getting frustrated and started googling. I came across their post where they outlined a couple of fixes that all circled around Mac OS X’s Sync Manager. The last fix on the page was one that seemed promising (that or I’m biased towards terminal based fixes). I opened up terminal and ran the command below:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl reset

First I ran this with Blackberry Desktop Manager closed and then again with it running. Both times it told me that there were no matching processes but if you watch a list, say the list of calendars it will clear out and re-populate after running the command. Hope this helps!

The other day while heading to class on the T I had a thought. Why doesn’t Twitter offer temporary accounts? For example, you have an event that you’re promoting via Twitter and once the event is done you don’t plan on ever touching the account again. Why not have a process to automatically remove these accounts? In comes a temporary Twitter account.

Ideally you would be able to create an account and set an end date on which the account would expire. For example if your event is December 11th you could set the account to expire December 15th so that you can see reactions and respond to them appropriately. On the expiration date the account no longer allows anyone to log in and if a user attempts to visit the account directly it will display a page letting the user know that the account was only temporary and has queued for deletion. Additionally at the same time the account becomes inactive it will tweet on last time so that everyone following the account will have been notified in some fashion, at this time the account will be removed from the following list of any followers for the account. After a waiting period, say 60 days, the account no longer displays a warning message to users and is returned to the pool of available names. This would allow for a wide variety of temporary events to interact while not wasting usernames, often times useful ones.

Let me know what you think of my idea in the comments.

I’ve been on Facebook since it was first opened to high school students, when it was still very basic. It was great, it was fast and much easier on the eyes than it’s dreaded counterpart Myspace. Then it became insanely popular and started to slow down, I understand that happening but it’s been in the news and publicized insane amounts over the past couple of years and it’s number of users has jumped through the roof. Granted I do not fully understand backend development on a site the size of Facebook but regardless, I find it a little pathetic that after all this publicity, money, and users that they still can’t manage to have uptime more than 1/4 (if even) of the time that I try to log on. For any other company on the net this would be inexcusable (look at Gmail’s recent outage and the ensuing outrage) but for Facebook it’s ok? Why?

Facebook’s development is great but to me it seems as though they’re moving too fast for their servers (or even users sometimes) to handle. They open the site to developers, great, but now it’s even slower and more annoying with all these applications. They open up their login to developers, great, but now if you try to use it you just have to pray that at that particular moment the site is responding and you don’t get stuck half logged in with a fancy little lightbox that you can’t get out of stuck over the site.

Today I pose one question and a possibly simpler answer. Why is Facebook able to get away with their terrible uptime/availability? My solution: Slow down. Stop trying to do everything at once, make sure the backend can support these ridiculous things.

I keep thinking that they might get on top of things and every time I do they swamp themselves with another release of the news feed or something of the like. I feel as though this is just irresponsible development and quite frankly, pathetic. I’m just waiting to pounce on the next big social network to get away from this horrid thing.

This is a pretty awesome video that I just came across thanks to GOOD. I had never actually heard of a sound sculpture before seeing this but it’s a pretty cool concept and the video is absolutely amazing, I’ve got a deep respect for Daniel Franke, the creator and his efforts. Take a look:

One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Notice the detail in this, the reflection on the floor, the lack of movement as the camera moves around and shakes. I’m simply in awe and would love to know a little more about this.

I’ve been trying to get around to creating a new portfolio for a long time now and I’ve just launched my new portfolio at http://portfolio.jamisonkissh.com. I attempted to keep the minimalist look of my blog that I adore but I’m not sure if I succeeded, please let me know what you think!