April 25
Zoom in to brush-stroke level detail of the masters at the
World's First HD Online Art Exhibition.
At SXSW 2009, France's
Zoomorama showed off its latest collaboration with
Bridgeman Art Library. So far the collection features the work of only three artists, but for those of us who like to make museum security nervous by getting really close, the results are pretty amazing, and the implications for future exhibitions are exciting.
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posted by Rykey at 8:26 AM -
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Worth1000 arguably the best place for
photoshops on the web, has released their newest creative effort...an online set of image (and eventually audio and video) tools called
Aviary (a review
here). And look at
what it can do (when I looked, there was a three-mouthed monkey - that's definitely awesome)!
posted by Kickstart70 at 7:14 AM -
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April 24
Did you guess wrong about which format would win the high-density disk war? Buy a lot of HD-DVDs? Warner Brothers has
a special program now where they'll swap your WB HD-DVDs for Blu-Rays of the same titles for $5 each.
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posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:47 PM -
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bio-bak is a little Monty Python, a little Hunter S. Thompson, and a whole lotta Katamari Damacy rolled up into an absurd little flash world. Updated from the version released in 2006.
posted by anthropoid at 9:53 PM -
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Col. Steven Kleinman, interrogation specialist, was interviewed yesterday on NPR about the use of torture in Iraq: NPR: And these harsh interrogation methods had been used by the Soviets and the Chinese to get people to say things that weren't true? Kleinman:That's true. And it's not just harsh physically, but I think the element that was more persuasive was their ability to induce what is known as debility, depression and dread through emotional and psychological techniques that profoundly altered somebody's ability to answer questions truthfully even if they wanted to. It truly undermined their ability to recall, so therefore it would call into question its efficacy in an intelligence-based interrogation. [link] .
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posted by mecran01 at 10:55 AM -
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The year is 1991. When a Gozer exhibit loaded with artifacts provided by the Shandors opens at the history museum in New York, it's not long before paranormal forces escape and sweep through the city. When the supernatural strikes back, who ya gonna call? Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson reunite for the upcoming
Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The
opening cinematic that kicks off the story has been released at GameTrailers, while the development teams working on the game discuss the project's origin and direction in
a series of blog articles at IGN.
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posted by Servo5678 at 9:18 AM -
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Andy Partridge (ex-
XTC frontman) and producer
John Leckie (Stone Roses/Radiohead) discuss the making of The Dukes of the Stratosphear 25 o'clock EP, getting sacked by Mary Margaret O'Hara, Roy Harper kissing a sheep and recording Syd Barrett in Abbey Road in 1975 (parts
I and
II).
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posted by johnny novak at 5:56 AM -
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April 23
Soul! New York City PBS affiliate WNET have digitized 9 episodes of
Soul!, a early 1970's live music program, providing a groovy video interface with chapters to break down each hour long episode.
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posted by myopicman at 11:45 PM -
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Erwin James: the real me.
Erwin James has written about prison for
the Guardian for a number of years, from the point of view of an insider: when his column began, he was serving a sentence for two murders. He
completed his sentence a few years ago, but continued to write under that name, a pseudonym.
Here, he talks about the crimes that he was originally imprisoned for, his time in the French Foreign Legion, how he became a writer during his time in prison, and gives his real name for the first time.
posted by chorltonmeateater at 11:20 PM -
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Geocities may be on its way out, but you'll be glad to know the internet of 1998 it celebrated lives on in a strange mismash of bad hypertext and video of pornographic Poser 3D models at
Dad-TV.com [NSFW].
posted by sp160n at 9:25 PM -
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Are you a guy with an iPhone? Sent anyone a hot self-pic lately? You might want to check out
Guys With iPhones (NSFW) to see if anyone has added you to the pool yet.
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