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's Archive for August, 2008

Post Olympics

Just thought I’d mention that the UK came 4th in the medals in Beijing. Best performance in 100 years, makes me all nostalgic <sniff> … but then I look out of my office window down to the Pacific Ocean… There’s a great lecture from Carnegie Mellon University on iTunesU by Kai-Fu Lee who heads up [...]

Chatty St. Cathy

Researcher Volker Blanz is working on ways to take 2D images and map them into 3D face models. Using other animation techniques he can then bring these models to life. While some of the original work used photographs, in the video below it’s been used to bring some famous paintings to life. via eightbar

Caught on Camera

We’re fortunate enough to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver the video on our website. Essentially, it gets us out of hosting the video but more than that, it should make the experience better for our users due to some digitalmagicary. Our videos are hosted on a geographic sensing network which figures out [...]

Oh come on this is so not fair….

New reality show passed on to my from one of my colleagues, thanks Tommy H. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10014030-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0  

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world….

My cat has more friends than I do on facebook! Several weeks ago, before we went on vacation, my son and two of his friends (Livvy the Hottest and Anita) made a facebook page for the family cat.  Nutty Witchey is a 13 year old, Maine coon cat that was given to us as a [...]

Monome: Minimalist Interfaces

I’m gearing up to get back to blogging on a more regular basis after being away most of the spring and summer.  (I’ve been earning the nickname a former housemate gave me – “Kohoutek“  – after the comet that only appears every 75,000 years). Monome is a small organization in my hometown of Philadelphia.  They’ve [...]

Bus

I’m like a bus, don’t blog for ages, then blog two days in a row. I had to share a couple of things, one I think is very cool and something which sums up the whole blog thing for me. I’m a big fan of the elegantly-simple presentation of complex information and the appropriate use [...]

The Dog ate my Blog

OK, not really, but I couldn’t think of a valid excuse as to why I haven’t blogged for a while, aside from having a job that got really busy for some reason. I thought I signed up for a much cushier number but apparently not. Anyway, you’ll be pleased to know that I actually have [...]

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