Did I really not link to this yet? It must be in lockdown in Instapaper. Anyway, it’s part of the press tour for House of Cards, which debuts on Netflix tomorrow (AV Club review of the first two eps here).
“Slitscanner is a little piece of Javascript you can run as a bookmarklet to start, well, slitscanning videos online.” Also see this catalog and explanation of the technique (via)
The quiet revision to the Apple TV contains a process-shrunk update of the A5X, the chip that was in the iPad 3, the first Retina iPad. Marco theorizes that if this is a low-volume ramp-up of a chip that will soon be featured in a high volume product (iPad or iPhone), this could mean that a retina iPad Mini is happening this year. Good!
Onion gold.
<blockquote> <p><span class="caps">WOOFINGTON</span>, D.C.—Aiming to strengthen yiplomatic relations with the nation of Furuguay, Bo Obama welcomed a visiting doglegation from the overseas country to the White House Thursday for talks on a wide range of vital rufforms.</p> </blockquote>
It’s going to be a really interesting next round in “the console wars” (via)
amazing. (via)
Great interview (thanks, y):
I remember describing making movies as a form of seduction and that people should look at it as though they’re being approached at a bar. My whole thing is, when somebody comes up to you at a bar, what behavior is appealing to you? And there are certain things that I’m not willing to do to get a reaction.
When I read “On Seduction” by Baudrillard in college, I thought it was profound. Would I still think so now? Could I even get through it?
““Since we have online entertainment, people do not buy Blu-ray and DVD players anymore,” Mr. Van Houten said.” (via)
Idea: google news alert for any article mentioning goblins (and maybe wizards?) (via)
<blockquote> <p>Mr Kamuyedza acquired a money-spinning goblin from a nearby country to boost the fortunes of his transport business. He, however, decided to dispose of it after it started “to make extreme demands.’’</p> </blockquote>
new free font from John August, plus some history of the original Courier.
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somebody call Fringe Division. Oh, wait…
a poll from Seattle – “73 percent of the 400 Seattle voters surveyed supported the idea of building protected bike lanes.”
I’ve wondered about this. I may be a biased driver as I probably bike more than I drive, but I prefer to drive on roads with bike lanes. I think at first motorists bristle at the idea of losing turf, but once they have experienced the order a good bike lane can bring, they don’t mind it.
How am I just finding this now?
Having noticed that there are shared aesthetic qualities of video imagery that accompany disparate cultural and scientific phenomena including guided meditation, hypnosis, undersea and space exploration by NASA, motivational speaking, powerpoint backgrounds, science fiction, psychedelic drug culture, electronic music, popular spirituality, and computer effects, we have built a generative system that mixes an original non-linear narrative with YouTube videos on these subjects as they are uploaded in real time.
I will note that my space journey was riddled with ads, which I guess is what you get with YouTube.
Yikes. (via)
“What did the building have to do with Tyson Bailey’s death?”
Kinect-style gesture control for PCs. Dunno, man – I get RSI just watching the video.
Now growing much faster than the burbs. Quick, someone plot this against gas prices.
“a taste test showed that switching rectums for calamari might indeed go undetected” (via)
via kottke
•Here’s the actual document the preceding link was based on. Some interesting stuff, and I’ve only just started:
the Toronto region has grown to become the third
largest industrial complex in North America (behind Los Angeles and Chicago), and the fifth largest office market on the continent (behind New York, Chicago, Washington, Dallas-Fort Worth). The GTA is also building an unprecedented number of high rise residential developments, with 150 projects under
construction – more than the five largest cities in the U.S. combined. In North America, only Manhattan
has more tall buildings than Toronto.
Yeah, might be time to up the transit a little, huh?
No big surprise, but worth remembering that office zoning and public transit planning should go hand in hand.
Nonetheless, the report said Toronto has become a tale of two cities: downtown office employees have access to amenities, good public transit, and an attractive quality of life, while other employees are working in areas without public transit or amenities and are consigned to long commutes by car, the report suggests.
And “rush hour traffic is now almost as bad leaving Toronto as it is coming into it.”