holographic posters

cool stuff.

Pay your artist

http://motionographer.com/2007/02/07/the-infamous-craigslist-post/

An interesting rant about artists/illustrators not getting paid.

enter to win a toilet

[image from http://www.rotorooter.com/]

Windows Vista... Not gonna do it... not for a while anyway.

I just read (most of) an article discussing how much joy Microsoft has released into the work in it's latest operating system's digital rights management (copy protection) features.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Unfortunately, the recording industries zeal to protect their intellectual property (an understandable concern) will, most likely, prevent us from viewing and managing our media in the the way we're accustomed to. Sadly, the days of hooking up any audio/display device to any compatible port to watch/listen to our music or video may be coming to an end. The content will have to be able to determine whether or not our output devices are secure and if they aren't they'll refuse to play at full quality or perhaps at all.

I have a DVD player that can upconvert DVDs to HD resolution. If I want to watch a commercial DVD, I need to have a TV with an HDMI connector. An HDTV ready display with DVI or component inputs (both HD capable ports) won't work in this instance.

I suppose it's a good thing I didn't buy an HDTV ready TV before I knew all of this stuff.

It just not good for the consumers. I'll possibly be one of those people who'll do something to strip the DRM from the media so I can watch my legitimately purchased content on whatever device I choose.

I'm rambling... sorry.

cool high speed camera footage

http://www.lucidmovement.com
I've always been interested in this kind of stuff.

Lab disaster may lead to new cancer drug

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/sc_nm/cancer_drug_dc_4

I don't think I'd classify what happened as a disaster but still this is cool news. I hope it works out.

Thank God for accidents and miscalculations.

Grrrr Computer Problems

My work PC went kaput. It didn't turn on. I hadn't used it for several days. I turned it on and nothing happened. I think it's the power supply (again) but I'm not sure. It made a clicking sound with it plugged in. When I detached the motherboard from the power supply and plugged the power chord back in the clicking stopped. That worries me because it makes me think it may be the motherboard and a more expensive repair. If I need to replace the motherboard and CPUs (how do you know if the RAM and CPUs aren't fried?) I probably won't get something as high-end as I have/had. Of course, it's a few years old so I won't have to spend as much to match its performance.

I probably won't do anything to it until I get paid for a freelance job I did for the University of Virginia. I was going to use that money to pay down debt, not repair equipment. At least I'm not doing any work that requires me to use it at this moment. If work like that comes along, I can install my productivity software on my entertainment PC though it doesn't have as much RAM as I'd want for serious graphics work. I could also use the computer I'm using at my old room mate's house. I'm not worried about it... just bummed out.

Cool driftwood sculptures

http://www.jansch.freeserve.co.uk/

Horses made out of driftwood. Looks cool.

Keep metalic things away from those MRI machines

http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects.html#

Florescent Pigs!!

Okay, so they only go green under UV light.