Augmented Reality's Smart Projecters
— real-time texture and color correction to project onto arbitrary surfaces via Delicious #Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive
— remarkable research into documents recovered from an Al-Qaeda desktop PC via LiveJournal #The Political Conspiracy BitTorrent Tracker
— and one with politically-themed torrents via Octopus Dropkick #Ron Fedkiw's physics modeling videos
— I can’t wait for those water, mesh, and fire simulations in videogames via Brett O'Connor #Glassdog's complaints about BitTorrent
— this is an essential companion piece to the BattleTorrent project #Video: Mindgame trailer, new animated Japanese film
— 2D, 3D, and live-action faces composited on animated bodies via Octopus Dropkick #Video: Huge Japanese landslide caught on video
— here’s a smaller version without the commentary via holycola.net #
Morning News roundtable chat with six MP3 bloggers
— Oliver has a great idea for official label MP3 blogs via Kottke #Protester technology at the RNC
— radio hijacking, mobile Wifi, backpack pirate radio, and aerial crowd photography #Long Chris Ware audio interview from 2001
— shortly after the release of the Jimmy Corrigan hardcover #Police investigating Daryl Kabatoff, and his mom gives more detail
— he indirectly threatened me last year because of my post #Sprawl, experimental typeface based on Belgium maps
— takes into account population density via Dave Shea #Stripe Snoop, free tools for analyzing magnetic stripe cards
— what do your credit cards say about you? via Delicious #TiVo saves Polyphonic Spree singer from airport arrest
— microphone mistaken for pipe bomb, shutting down Dallas airport via Matt Haughey #Mooncheese, Old-School Graphic Demo in Pure DHTML/Javascript
The Assembly demo party in Helsinki is one of the largest geek gatherings in the world, where thousands converge to watch and compete in graphic demo competitions. (View the panorama photo from last year’s event, with over 5,000 attendees.)
This year, the winner of the “Browser Demo” category was Mooncheese, written in pure Javascript and DHTML. Several classic real-time demo effects are represented, such as copper bars, tunnels, voxels, Mandelbrot zooms, and various vector effects. In Javascript!
You can view the Mooncheese demo mirrored locally on my server, or download the source locally.
It works well in Firefox 0.9 and Internet Explorer 6, but not Safari. Read the release notes for more information.
Forbes thinks RSS is dumb
— read the “Worst” section of the Standard review via techlawadvisor.com #Close-up photos of ENIAC
— one of the first computers, plus lovely desktop wallpaper via cis.upenn.edu #Americans blocked from online access to live Olympics coverage
— another argument for pirating the Olympics #Metafilter Sources
As part of my ongoing interest in Metafilter statistics, I was curious to see which sites Metafilter users link to the most.
From a complete dump of Metafilter’s front-page post database back to July 1999 (thanks, Matt!), I extracted the unique domains linked from each entry and added them all up.
The Top 50 results are below, proving that the NewsFilter moniker isn’t too far off. (Or you can view the entire list.)
