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Don't be 3dvil

With 'Lively' Google tries something more interactive in the 3d space after buying SketchUp in 2006.
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 8:19 PM on July 8, 2008 (40 comments)

Chladni patterns

Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 7:19 AM on April 19, 2008 (5 comments)

Liam Finn and EJ Barnes on Letterman

Liam Finn and EJ Barnes -- U.S. network debut on Letterman via
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 12:13 PM on March 6, 2008 (8 comments)

The entire sequence takes 26 seconds. There’s too much to take in. Or, you don’t know what you’ve taken in, and how deep the impression has been.

The Flow, by Paul Myerscough
That image gives way, quickly and successively, to a series of others: a young black woman smoking, smiling at the camera through a reinforced glass window; three teenage girls in a car, laughing, filmed through the windscreen; a whip-pan to the American flag, pierced by sunlight, drifting in the breeze; a DIY programme on a pixellated TV screen; a ride-along shot of a family in an oversized golf buggy; two different angles of a man alone in a lecture theatre; two more of traffic at night; a woman, suspicious of the camera, wearing a polka-dot dress and partly obscured by glassy reflections; a blurry shot of a long windowless corridor; a man wearing shades in a crowded street; a woman pursued down the cosmetics aisle of a supermarket; and, as Curtis comes to the end of his three short sentences, a woman seen jogging in the wing-mirror of a moving car. The entire sequence takes 26 seconds. There’s too much to take in. Or, you don’t know what you’ve taken in, and how deep the impression has been.

posted to MetaFilter by acro at 3:18 PM on June 20, 2007 (18 comments)

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Donald K. Snedeker 3206 Victoria Park Ave Toronto, ON M4A 2M5 Email Address: Donald.K.Snedeker@pookmail.com Phone: 416-757-0023 Mother's maiden name: Stephens Birthday: December 6, 1961
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 6:34 PM on June 7, 2007 (44 comments)

I quit using my script. I just take the ones they type up each day.

Anything you do as many times as a successful actor, you can't have one set of theories, you know. You can go for years saying “I'm gonna get this thing real”, because they really haven't seen it real, do you know? They just keep seeing one fashion of unreal after the other that passes as real and you, you know, you go mad with realism and then you come up against someone like Stanley who says, “Yeah, it’s real but it’s not interesting.”
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 9:10 AM on June 6, 2007 (21 comments)

Local-online-applications-API

'Google Gears' is program interface for AJAX application developers. * A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server * A database, to store and access data from within the browser * A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 5:58 PM on May 31, 2007 (20 comments)

Punch line inside

First Global Peace Index Ranks 121 Countries
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 1:10 PM on May 30, 2007 (66 comments)

Suicide Attack kaiten 回天

The Kaiten Memorial Museum on Otsushima Island, on the site of the original kaiten base. WWII Japanese suicide tactics included planes, boats, and suicide submarines. The submarine discovered recently near Sydney harbor was not such a craft, yet the pilots took their own lives rather than lead their pursuers to the I-class mother submarines nearby.
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 2:07 PM on May 22, 2007 (10 comments)

I'm a great believer in unintended consequences


Ceribus Hemi

Magna International has failed in its bid to purchase Chrysler, losing to private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP Bloomberg video: Canadian Auto Workers union president Buzz Hargrove (wmv) fears further job cuts.
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 3:34 PM on May 14, 2007 (26 comments)

Allo Sarkozy

newsfilter!! more inside Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy wins France's presidential election.
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 12:51 PM on May 6, 2007 (154 comments)

Privacy™ 2.0™


Youtube-- SolidarityTV1985

A tale of the Polish resistance, radio astronomers, and the nearly 25 year-old ZX Spectrum computer (youtube; some links open with nice music)(via, previously)
posted to MetaFilter by acro at 6:14 PM on April 19, 2007 (18 comments)