Archive for February, 2007

Jean Michel Jarre’s New Single

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Here’s the music video to Jarre’s new single.
Some of the tracks on the album “Teo and Tea” have interesting names:
beautiful agony
chatterbox
fresh news
gossip
in the mood for you
melancholic rodeo
ok do it fast
partners in crime 1
partners in crime 2
teo and tea 4.00 am
teo and tea
touch to remember
vintage
Beautiful Agony, after listening to it, obviously was inspired by this site.

Hamlet

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical […]

Recreating 3D space from 2D images

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

This is seriously cool.
Make sure you check out the demo.
Photo tourism is a system for browsing large collections of photographs in 3D. Researcher’s approach takes as input large collections of images from either personal photo collections or Internet photo sharing sites, and automatically computes each photo’s viewpoint and a sparse 3D model of the scene. […]

Y2K All Over Again…

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Don’t toss out that government surplus rice and beans just yet. Another round of Y2K-like madness is here…the dreaded Daylight Savings Time change!

Stealing Credit Card Numbers

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Paranoid about your personal information? Here’s more fuel for your inner-fire…now it’s possible to steal your Name, Credit Card number and Expiration date without even touching your card.
According to a study from academic and business researchers at the University of Massachusetts, RSA, and Innealta, many of the cards will transmit your name, credit card number, […]

Drive-By Pharming

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I don’t think this is a serious threat, not like the recent news about picking locks, but it’s interesting and I love the simplicity of it.
Drive-By Pharming
Drive-by pharming involves the use of JavaScript to change the settings of a user’s home broadband router. Once the user clicks on a malicious link, malicious JavaScript code is […]

Pastor Robs his flock and they forgive him?

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them.
He used the money to buy himself a brand-new black BMW and a laptop — exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his double life as a sinner.
Then…
“Most of the congregation, being a […]

Vinyl CD

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Someone cut grooves into a CD so it plays on a phonograph.
Cool.

Casio SK-1 Video Out Mod

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I’m into circuit bending a bit and found this posted on a website. A video of a video-out mod of a casio SK-1.
I STILL have my original SK-1, btw! Although I’m no where near as cool as Spunky Toofers…yet.

Hi-Tech Steganography

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Japanese firm Fujitsu is pushing a technology that can encode data into a picture that is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera.
The company believes the technology will have spin off implications for the publishing industry.