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david posted a photo:

"The ocean is on everyone's mind."

Originally from david's Photos, on February 26, 2006 11:44 PM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos, on February 26, 2006 11:44 PM

Originally posted by sudama from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 26, 2006 11:43 PM

3 parallel 8’ high by 3.5 ’ wide panes of mirrored glass placed side by side, each displaying rear-projected content from a high-lumen projector. content was designed in 3 dimensions, using scale, motion & depth perspective to make the user feel like she is immersed in & moving through the communication.
a user standing in front of the mirrors has the unusual sensation of seeing their reflection & the projected content simultaneously. sensors embedded in the structure above each pane register when a user reaches out to a “hot spot,” allowing users to navigate the projected content without ever needing to touch the “screen” or press a “button.” see also menu vista & bloomberg smart space.
[interactivemirror.net|via interactivearchitecture.org]

Originally posted by infosthetics from information aesthetics, on February 26, 2006 11:43 PM

So long, 9th St.

Originally from Ftrain.com, on February 26, 2006 11:43 PM

In reaction to the South Dakota Senate passing an abortion ban bill, a woman named Molly has posted an abortion manual for the women of South Dakota:

In the 1960s and early 1970s, when abortions were illegal in many places and expensive to get, an organization called Jane stepped up to the plate in the Chicago area. Jane initially hired an abortion doctor, but later they did the abortions themselves. They lost only one patient in 13,000 -- a lower death rate than that of giving live birth. The biggest obstacle they had, though, was the fact that until years into the operation, they thought of abortion as something only a doctor could do, something only the most trained specialist could perform without endangering the life of the woman.

They were deceived -- much like you have probably been deceived. An abortion, especially for an early pregnancy, is a relatively easy procedure to perform. And while I know, women of South Dakota, that you never asked for this, now is the time to learn how it is done. There is no reason you should be beholden to doctors -- especially in a state where doctors have been refusing to perform them, forcing the state's only abortion clinic to fly doctors in from elsewhere.

(via cyn-c)

Originally from kottke.org, on February 26, 2006 11:43 PM

poems about celebrities!!

Originally posted by kick_out_the_internet_jams from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 26, 2006 06:17 PM

"The Enigma Machine was cracked in Poland in 1932, but three messages remain unbroken, despite having been intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942. The M4 Project, named after the four rotor Enigma M4 used for encryption, is a distributed computing effort to break them. One message has already been deciphered successfully!"

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 26, 2006 04:50 PM

Anvil is a free video annotation tool, used at research institutes world-wide (see the Anvil User Web). It offers frame-accurate, hierarchical multi-layered annotation driven by user-defined annotation schemes. The intuitive annotation board shows color-coded elements on multiple tracks in time-alignment. Special features are cross-level links, non-temporal objects and a project tool for managing multiple annotations. Originally developed for Gesture Research, Anvil has also proved suitable for research in Human-Computer Interaction, Linguistics, Ethology, Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Embodied Agents, Computer Animation and many other fields.

Originally from unmediated, on February 26, 2006 04:49 PM

Wired is running a painfully detailed account of the Scanner Darkly production, that I'm not sure everyone involved would exactly agree with, but it's signifigant as the first public airing of some of the issues that occurred during animation. Originally I was kind of heartbroken that I didn't get to work on the film in some capacity, but In retrospect I'm kind of glad I sat this one out, as it would have been really painful to have been closer to some of the stressful things that were happening.

Link

Tags: Movies

Originally from News of the dead, on February 26, 2006 04:48 PM

also entertaining: the extra footage with scoble, israel and others from thursday's vidcast.

Originally from shey.net reblog, on February 26, 2006 02:32 PM

By Chetan Patel, Engineering Manager & Stephen Stukenborg, Product Manager

While Google Base provides data structure and distribution for a wide range of content and information, a subset of items are for sale. To help users more easily purchase and sell Google Base items, we're planning to enable people to buy items on Google Base using their Google Accounts.

Many of you are probably already familiar with the Google Account. You use it to sign in and pay for a number of Google services, like Google Video and Google Earth. We're now introducing similar functionality on Google Base.

For buyers, this feature will provide a convenient and secure way to purchase Google Base items by credit card. For sellers, this feature integrates transaction processing with Google Base item management.

We're starting with a very small number of sellers and we expect to include more over the next several months. If you're a seller and you're interested in getting an announcement when this feature is generally available, let us know. And if you want to know how this functionality relates to Google's broader work in payments, read this update. We hope this feature will make it even easier for people to use Google Base to post and distribute a wide range of content, whether information for sharing or goods for sale.

Originally from Official Google Base Blog, on February 26, 2006 02:07 PM

In this proposed show, final means final.

Originally from Mr. Sun!, on February 26, 2006 12:01 AM

... spreadsheeting world religions by how much heavenly booty you get in the hereafter. The results should be expedited straight to Pueblo, Colorado for a free brochure.

Originally from Mr. Sun!, on February 26, 2006 12:01 AM