Cool Wallet

Here's an article in wired about a Stewart/Stand wallet that I think would be cool to have. It's made of woven stainless steel thread. Of course, I'm not the kind of person to pay $80 - $125 for a wallet even if I think it's cool.

gored

The American Heart Association has a women's heart health campaign going on now. they call it "Go Red"

The web address is goredforwomen.com

I don't think I want to be gored for anyone.

Incidentally, I don't like the TV ad. They just show pictures of different women. The reds are really intense and the skin tones are pushed to yellow. I think they were trying to make it a graphical look. To me it just looks like they have the colors turned up too high... like above normal "broadcast legal" limits. I appreciate what they're trying to do, but I'd lower the saturation of the skin colors and, after pumping up the reds to where a lot of the detail is lost, pull the over all saturation down so it does look it was shot in a radiation leak.

I told you so.

According to this page:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcobweb.html

Cobwebs do come from spiders.

:p

The future of computer interfaces?

Click the title bar for the article that alerted me to these clips.

A guy named Jeff Hahn gave this talk at a conference last year.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zwGAKUForhM

Here's a more recent demo of the tech he developed.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysEVYwa-vHM

It's very cool to watch and for some of the things I do... particularly video compositing and graphics work. would be a very cool way to work. Maybe someday it'll trickle down to something I can afford. :)

I have seen some video of this stuff before (maybe even blogged about it then) but it's still cool to see.

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.