Archive for May, 2006

The best advertising database in the world

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

It’s making the news now and really should have come as no surprise if you have been following the news. It’s a reducto ad absurdum of the Administration’s “creative” interpretation of the Constitution.
If you parse the up-to-date denials and spin, you will see they’re not denying it. The only claim is that the profiles are [...]

Noise as a GUID

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

An interesting article from the Discovery Channel about using noise to match digital images to the camera that shot it in much the same way bullet markings can be used to match to the gun that fired it.
My Nikon D70 has a really hot pixel in the lower left of the sensor (upper right). And [...]

Applying common sense to what you read

Monday, May 8th, 2006

As has been mentioned many times on the blogs already, The Apple v. Apple lawsuit ended in favor of Apple Computer.
And to everyone who claimed that that Apple Corps were sure to win, I’d like to point out more of us need to do a common sense parse of the news we read.
Look, if Apple [...]

The Truth about [insert YASNS flavor of the month]

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

From some random Flickr browsing, I came across an amusing description of MySpace profiles. The site I guess is a parody of “The Drudge Report” a conduit by which the right-wing field tests their latest talking points.
The article felt eerily familiar, like something I read once on a Right-Wing humor site, Buttafly (Part II [...]

mediamux

Monday, May 1st, 2006

“Well, at least one camera is steady”

Caitlin started a blog about content creation in sight, sound, and motion called mediamux.
It’s just a start, but if you ever do video content creation, or just like to discuss it, you should subscribe to it.
One of her early entries covers the RedOne digital cinecamera, which I wanted to [...]