I have been meaning to post this for awhile. Among other things, I recently wrote a Processing sketch that uses Carnivore to sniff the packets on a local network, then does a whois search on the IP address to look up the physical address attached to them. The sketch then displays the address, and plots it on a map. The more packets that come from a location, the brighter the dot.

In this iteration, I just used the Arin server, so it’s just for US addresses. This also limited me to a US map (which I stole borrowed from one of the examples in Ben Fry’s Visualizing Data book).

Since this is a Processing sketch, I could have done an embedded applet for this entry, but Carnivore requires some changing of permissions on the local machine to do the packet sniffing. And well, you can’t do that from a web page.

The code for this is here, but I will warn you now that it is undocumented. And it comes with no warranty, use at your own risk, etc. Enjoy!

More z-projections. Same as this.

Infinite loop of two desktops, both running screen sharing.

Summertime means not a lot of updates from me. I have been working on things, just not getting around to posting them. But I have some new pics that I am going to post.

In the meantime, here is a self-portrait after my latest seizure.

Went to Stinson Beach and Muir Woods yesterday with my buddy Rob, Nora and Allie yesterday. More after the jump.

Similar, tweaked, process as here. New movie though.

Enjoy.

PS. The compression on these sites blows. I would recommend, if you are interested, going here and downloading the original. It looks a lot better.

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