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What a wild, wild week.

First the really big news - Grand Theft Bicycle has been accepted for a show at the Stride Gallery in Calgary. We don’t know when it will happen yet but I’d guess it will probably be within the next 6 months.

Then this morning I got an email telling me that this is box/this is machine has been accepted into the Bearded Child Film Festival (Minneapolis/Grand Rapids) and will play not just once but twice - how sweet is that?

And last but not least, Love&Olson are playing a semi-private gig next Tuesday Thursday evening at Discovery Coffee with our old friends i send data live. You can watch a blip from my preparations below or on Vimeo.

QC test from robotoverlord on Vimeo.

I spent a bit of time this morning working with SWFObject this morning and tried to splice it into a regular page template to produce a sIFR like effect. And it worked. Seamlessly. All in all it took me about 20 minutes.

If you’re looking for other kinds of flash objects (like mp3, movies, etc) try out swftools or for a full-on API for SWFObject, SWFObject API.

If you are a nerd or geek with a bit of spare time on your hands, help TechCrunch realize their dream of a $200 tablet built for the web. They’re looking for programmers that can help them build a tiny OS that will run firefox and possibly skype.

Via TechCrunch
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

Nice little article about the adoption of Open Source by the finance sector, great news for advocates of OSS.

The Finance Sector: Open Source Rising | OStatic

Though the average user is unaware of the change, the web has been revolutionized in the last decade by the mass adoption and maturation of open source technology. Publishers, programmers, corporations and even governments have embraced open source as a reliable and elegant development methodology for projects of all shapes and sizes.