Archive for August, 2007

Those nice Americans, what is she talking about?

Question: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?

Miss Teen South Carolina: “I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh…people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and…I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our…

Editor’s note: It was painful typing this dialogue.

Context sensitive image resizing


hi-res version

As seen on slashdot:
At the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego, two Israeli professors, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir, have demonstrated a new method to shrink images. The method is called ‘Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing’ (PDF paper here) and it figures out which parts of an image are less significant. This makes it possible to change the aspect ratio of an image without making the content look skewed or stretched out.

iPhone unlocked – the hardware hack…

click here: http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

iPhone unlocked

Het is gedaan, de iPhone is unlocked met een hardware hack van Geohot en z’n vriendjes zoals op engadget te lezen.

Bush countdown timer

http://www.bushslastday.com/

Those nice Americans, how much they know, god bless ‘em (2)

Those nice Americans, how much they know, god bless ‘em

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