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Voxel Trouble

Some interesting bits up at Google Code : it’s my second Radiohead-related post this week, I know. For the recording of the House of Cards video clip they did not use any camera’s. Yes, that’s right. Instead, they used specialised hardware that can register 3D geometry at a very fast …

Big ideas

The song nude by Radiohead performed on old hardware. Several doses of awesome. Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Foxhunt !

Today marks the release of Mozilla Firefox 3.0. To celebrate this, the Mozilla Foundation is trying to set the Guinness World Record for most downloaded software. So if you’ve never tried out Firefox before or were bound to update anyway, go ahead. World-wide release times can be viewed here. Version …

FT(cat) = Meow(f)

How can a man every concentrate on studying filters and digital signal processing when every Google search on the matter eventually leads him to a vortex of inproductivity ?

The Biggest Narcist in the World

Today I read about Erik Nordenankar, who did a pretty cool thing: he developed a GPS transmitter with elongated battery life, put it in a shock-proof closed case, printed out very detailed instructions (places and coordinates) and handed the lot to the world-wide delivery company DHL. By using the acquired …

Towel Day

Thanks to fellow blogger Pelle at Blikkendoos.be, I will never forget that the 25th of may is from now on Towel Day. In order to celebrate the festivities, I went for a Vogon-green one. Don’t hesitate to post your pictures of Towel Day madness, but make sure to cut off …

So long, and thanks for all the fish

And then, on one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been …

Image Challenge Fun

Inspired by a similar Image Challenge at b3ta.com I decided to create some entries with my student friends. The rules are simple: you’re allowed to change one letter of a movie title into another one, and the goal is to refurbish the official movie poster to match your new title. …