The 3D Polaroids of Markus Kison
The 3D Polaroids of Markus Kison
Archive for November, 2007
The Girl Watcher
“While scouting for springbok in the Zoogo regions, I chanced upon a gaggle of teen-age pygmies tattering at a water hole. The native chieftain, noting my interest, later gave me a pair of 19 inch girls as a gift. Is it cricket for a Girl Watcher to own one? Will I lose my amateur standing, if I hold specimens in captivity?”
POSH - Plain Old Semantic HTML
For years I’ve been advocating the use of valid, semantic, accessible, well-structured HTML. It’s a bit of a mouthful to say, but thanks to an acronym being coined on the Microformats IRC channel almost seven months ago, I can now shorten that to POSH instead.
[Via 456 Berea ST]
New Horiyoshi III Article
Tokyo-based design site, PingMag, has a short but interesting article on Japanese tattoo master Horiyoshi III. In addition to some Irezumi 101 background, the article includes fun quotes on the difference between the hand-poked (tebori) method and machine tattooing–both used by Horiyoshi–and how he builds the tattoo work together with the client.
[Via Needled]
W3C anuncia escritório no Brasil
O Consórcio World Wide Web (W3C) tem a satisfação de anunciar a inauguração do primeiro escritório W3C na América do Sul, o W3C Escritório Brasil, abrigado no NIC.br (Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR), em São Paulo, Brasil. W3C deseja aumentar a interação com a comunidade de língua portuguesa com a instalação deste escritório, principalmente porque o status da arte do ambiente tecnológico no Brasil está em perfeita sintonia com as tendências no W3C, tais como mobilidade, aplicações e vídeo para o mundo Web.
[Via Revolução ETC]
Colorization Using Optimization
Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task.
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Timing is everything, particularly in the case of amazing photography. Sometimes that means waiting through a whole sports game and getting lucky to catch just the right shot. Other times than means trudging through nature for weeks to get the perfect environmental photograph. Here are 25 examples of perfectly timed images from around the world and in various genres.
[Via Sawse]
O adeus aos Borracheiros?
Sem ar, sem válvulas, sem compressores, sem reparos, e adeus pneus furados, pois eles já vêm “furados” de fábrica.
[Via Update or Die]
Novo comercial do Playstation 3
Saiu o novo comercial do Playstation 3 que só será veiculado neste final de semana. Mas como eu sei? Bom, um amigo acompanha o blog do PlayStation e leu em primeira mão um post feito por Peter Dille (Senior Vice Presidente de Marketing.
[Via Update or Die]
