Things are moving pretty fast, so we can’t remember which stage we’re in. Surely we’ve moved beyond “It’s A Bubble”, but have we also passed “It’s A Bubble Backlash” and gone into “No, It’s Really A Bubble”? Regardless, we enjoyed this video, even though we didn’t seem to make the blogroll.
“sneak and peek” searches through which law enforcement officers search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s permission or knowledge; …….. which allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search telephone, email, and financial records without a court order; and the expanded access of law enforcement agencies to government records, including library and financial records.
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Its architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, shows it off in this standing-ovation demo.
Seadragon is an incubation project resulting from the acquisition of Seadragon Software in February. Its aim is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network.
The Seadragon team is currently tuning its DirectX implementation, making the most of the new Windows Media Photo format, and cranking on the Photosynth Technology Preview. Seadragon – Microsoft Live Labs
John Kanzius discovered that his radio frequency generator could release the oxygen and hydrogen from saltwater and create an incredibly intense flame. Saltwater into fire (John Kanzius) – YouTube
While filming at a comedy club, a bachelorette party constantly talks during the show and is disruptive to the show and the comedian on stage. What resulted was a brutal verbal beating to the entire table of girls. Talkers During A Comedy Show – Vimeo via digg
A voluptuous anime bunny woman, created in time-lapse using thousands of lines of HTML code to individually create and color table cells as pixels. Perhaps more astonishing than the asinine level of detail necessary to code something like this in Notepad is the up-their-own-ass dorks in the Videosift comments complaining that it’s not standards compliant CSS.
“This is why geeks have yet to take over the world. We’re too focused on ridiculously detailed pointless endeavors like this, rather than real world problems.”
Music Video for the Theme Song to the short-lived TV show ‘Wonderfalls’. It was one of those shows that was just too good for television. The theme song will get stuck in your head fairly easily.
