Archive for September, 2006

The Little Drummer Boy

I see this kid has got some supportive and patient parents.
Julian Pavone (The Drummer Baby)

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640 pixels of h.264, my butt

Yeah, so today was practically Christmas for the Mac geek. So many new toys, new life for old toys, and the chance to play with it all.
The big one? It looks like the chip in the iPod is finally living up to spec that everyone knew about last year. h.264 decoding at [...]

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Who Wants to be a Mac-ionaire

Here's a short little mac/apple history quiz in the form of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. You can keep trying over and over as it's the same questions in the same order, but I only made it to 25,000 before failing. After taking it again and getting past that, I made it [...]

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light emitting textiles

Ok, did I just wake up from a 50 year slumber or something and am viewing the sci-fi future?
This is crazy…
Light emitting textiles from Philips. (video on YouTube)

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moonshot

Quite possibly one of the most exaggerated, yet most beautiful, shots of the moon ever.
Moon Hypersaturated
the details to this picture are buried a few deep in the thread, but here it is:
This image is a mosaic of 15 separate and slightly overlapping 8.2 megapixel images from my Canon EOS-20D (unmodified), taken in Raw mode and [...]

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