Archive for August, 2006

Wow, this is funny: Tribble Ad Agency » The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs

Prosecutors to monitor Madonna act: Those Germans shouldn’t charge Madonna with “insulting religious beliefs”, they should prosecute for “insulting good taste with tired, banal posturing”. Wearing a crown of thorns in a concert? Please, how 1995. Now if she’d wear a Qur’an brassier, that might be more relevant to the times.

An excerpt from Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush? - New York Times:

H.D.R. is one of many digital darkroom techniques catching the fancy of amateur photographers. With the rising popularity of digital single-lens reflex cameras and more powerful personal computers has come a growing interest in visual experiments.

At the same time, software makers like Adobe are increasingly automating many of those processes, including H.D.R. While they may not always be straightforward, tricky digital techniques no longer require months of experience or hours of study.

Although H.D.R. photos are often compared to paintings, they are an attempt by software makers to allow photography to more accurately mimic human vision.

My secret mole at Microsoft passed this little top-secret project over to me:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html 

Wow, what a brilliant concept — use the world’s photos to reconstruct a location.

(Also worth checking out are the other lab-like projects that the Evil Empire is working on: http://labs.live.com) 

Here’s a snippet from my MSN Messenger conversation with said-mole:

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Read up here on how to blog safely– and anonymously – and avoid getting fired, arrested or ridiculed for what you publish on your blog.

Yes, I said arrested!

IP masking, anonymous ghost pings, paper shredding, records policies, obscuring identifying details: wow, this is some decidedly anti-Web-2.0, hackerly, spy stuff.