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Tribble Ad Agency » The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs

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

Prosecutors to monitor Madonna act

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.

NYT Article on the H.D.R. Photography Technique

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.

MS Live Labs’ Photosynth

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:
jeff jeff jeff cat! says:   have you seen this? http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html         jeff jeff jeff cat! says:          should try leveraging it for jerde v2         Wil (Mod7) says:          wow, that’s @#$% [ed] wicked         Wil (Mod7) says:          i wonder how they will address temporal change         Wil (Mod7) says:          i.e., my photo of the woodward’s building that isn’t there anymore         jeff jeff jeff cat! says:        very interesting.. i wonder if thigns would gradually deconstruct         Wil (Mod7) says:          maybe timestamps. etc might help, combined with a little ‘timestamp’ voting where more images of a particular location exist  \       Wil (Mod7) says:          but, yeah, with incomplete, multi-tiome coverage         Wil (Mod7) says:          it could be a wild look        jeff jeff jeff cat! says: it is effed up.. what you were asking about “what if a building goes away”   jeff jeff jeff cat! says:         that’ll be a feature soon enough.. since photos have a timestamp, they’re thinking of letting you look at a scene chronologically.. and possibly into renaissance time (using paintings & etchings). Spladow!   Wil (Mod7) says:         pow!~ that’s HOT  jeff jeff jeff cat! says:         yeah dude.. soon enough there will be a public version. The crazy thing is - there’s NO human input. All the positioning, stitching, recognition, 3d, etc. is automated by robots   Wil (Mod7) says:         THAT is what computers should be doing   Wil (Mod7) says:         i’m so impressed   jeff jeff jeff cat! says:         Almost as cool as the software is the mechanics behind it. It’s a bit much to get into, but i’m glad to know there are smart smart people out there.   Wil (Mod7) says:     
what’s interesting is how that emerged from a rapid visualization tool 

Blog Safely

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.