Ever wanted the RGB cube?
Found on WIN blog.
Touching the RGB Colorspace
22. September, 2012
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Takedown Instead of Touchdown
7. August, 2012Scripps News Service (one company of the E. W. Scripps Group. The same group owns United Media who publishes the famous Dilbert comic strip) sent YouTube a DMCA takedown notice claiming they were owning the copyright of one of the videos in NASA’s YouTube channel (again).
It’s like Einstein said: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
But now we have computers to bring dumbness to whole new levels.
Related:
- “NASA’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown” by Alex Pasternack
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Order Your Own Mecha
3. August, 2012Ever wanted to pilot one of those huge robots from Japanese Anime? Here is your chance:
Training video:
I especially liked “the system will fire when the pilot smiles. This feature is called ‘THE SMILE SHOT’. You will be able to take out all enemies with a single smile. Be sure not to cause a shooting spree by smiling too much!” 😉
And all that for a mere $2,051,200 US (with all extras enabled)!
Order form (needs flash)
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Symphony of Science
31. July, 2012When I reach to the edge of the universe
I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery
There are times when, at least for now,
One must be content to love the questions themselves— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Symphony of Science is a YouTube channel where they mix awe-inspiring images with vocalized texts. It’s a bit hard to explain but easy to understand. Watch this:
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On The Internet, You Can Be Anything You Want
14. June, 2012On the internet,
you can be
anything you want.
It’s strange that
so many people
choose to be stupid.
(source)
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Better Toothbrush
13. June, 2012Think about this: How could you improve a toothbrush?
And I’m not talking about the electronic kind; just a plan plastic toothbrush. No idea? How about adding a fountain so you don’t have to crawl into your sink!
Source: Rinsing Toothbrush WIN
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Military Logic
2. June, 2012The marine prefers non-swimmers – they’ll defend their ships longer.
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Ruining our privacy wasn’t enough – now they’re after our money, too!
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Sharing Source Code
1. May, 2012One would think that “open source” is all about sharing. But that’s a misconception. Example: Try to use some GPL‘d code in your non-GPL OSS project. Oh, the humanity.
So called “proprietary” software at least believes in “buying love”. They won’t show you the source but for a price, you can at least use their work without many questions asked.
OSS is different. If you use the wrong license, you must be a moron (proof: You’re using a different license than me. QED) Nobody wants to share their hard work with morons!
Especially not since the process to select the “perfect” OSS license is so painful. You need to read legalese, try to understand it, reason with the nice smiling person on the other side of the padded wall (a.k.a “outside”) that you’re not insane – the rest of the world is and you can prove it.
Ever tried to get some OSS project to share their code under second license? It’s a lot of fun – unless you’re serious. Then … it’s not so much fun.
Why I’m ranting?
I spend a lot of time on stackoverflow. It’s cool. It’s full of source.
But can you use any piece of that source code in your OSS project?
Are you sure?
You are. Splendid. Do you really think a lawyer would see this the same way?
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Patently Unpatentable: Multi-Language Movies
14. April, 2012Not DVDs, in the movie theater: Each visitor get to enjoy the movie in their home language.
How?
Anyone has a mobile phone today, right? The audio system of the theater will only play the background sound, all the voices are transmitted via WLAN to each individual phone.
People can then listen to the voices of the actors with their own headphones.
Additional bonus: No audible ringing and everyone can tune the volume of the voices to their liking.
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