When I look into the sky, I can see small, brilliant points of light darting around. What are they?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Tarn at 3:10 AM on May 15, 2008 (18 comments)

One of the most amazing user-led projects out there, CHDK firmware turns cheap Canon cameras into photography powerhouses. You can take take time-lapse movies as in this stunning sunset example; automatically photograph lightening; easily make pretty HDR images and stereograms; have unlimited depth-of-field; and, perhaps most impressively, take photographs with shutter speeds of 1/60,000 of a second!
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 8:18 AM on March 13, 2008 (69 comments)

Content Aware Image Resizing. Every year SIGGRAPH rolls around I get a reminder of how smart everyone else is, especially people who do computer graphics research. From Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The algorithm resizes images non-uniformly and, well, somewhat magically.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2007 (94 comments)

suggest some fun, upbeat, likeable songs that mention specific colours?
posted to Ask Metafilter by twistofrhyme at 5:44 PM on August 21, 2007 (55 comments)

I'm looking for a bandwidth monitoring tool for OSX. I need it to do some specific things.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jammnrose at 4:39 PM on August 21, 2007 (5 comments)

Looking for recommendations of Science Fiction book/series involving well-constructed, involving, and believable universes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Raven13 at 12:34 PM on April 6, 2007 (62 comments)

Dancers caught in midair. Dancers as seen through a kaleidoscope. Dancers jumping in stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by found dog one eye at 6:10 PM on February 13, 2007 (11 comments)

I would like to make some photographs look more like cartoons or illustrations in Fireworks (or Photoshop if necessary). Anyone have some tips on getting this accomplished? I have Fireworks 8 on my machine and access to Photoshop CS2 at school if worse comes to worse.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jxpx777 at 1:00 PM on July 11, 2006 (11 comments)