13th
February
2006
“Can one noble genius single-handedly educate all of mankind? Although not previously possible, the answer is now most assuredly ‘yes’. The author of Hall of Best Knowledge, blessed with an almost unnatural intellect and refinement, bravely battles the problem of a nation‚Äôs ever-increasing ignorance one engaging concept at a time. The people call out for help, in one stupid voice, and they are answered with authority. The Hall of Best knowledge combines lush imagery with lucid prose–imagine the works of Chaucer projected on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel–creating a weekly learning experience that is without equal in this or any age.”
posted in Art | Permalink |
13th
February
2006
“Photoshop’s native HDR support isn’t so hot. Photomatix makes a standalone app and also a Photoshop plugin for better tone mapping … I’ve used HDR in Photoshop CS2 (which is required, as stated previously), and to be honest I’ve not got anything as stunning as the stuff linked to on BoingBoing.”
posted in Photography | Permalink |
13th
February
2006
“Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text. The output from textorizer is in SVG…”
posted in Illustration | Permalink |
13th
February
2006
“I am in the process of setting up a new website. I have been planning it for a week or so now. A few days ago I visited a certain domain name seller to check on the availability of a domain. It came up as available. Super… I thought. Quite a good name there. However…… Today I came to set up the name and hosting for the new website. And what do you think I discovered? The domain name was purchased 2 days ago. And who is the name registered to? The exact same domain name seller I searched the term on on the first place!”
posted in Domain names | Permalink |
