2006-11-28 store data on paperPolemik-Crescendo: After quotation of an article by arabnews.com about storing digital data on paper by techworld.com, arstechnica.com and infosthetics.com the blogosphere is heating up with discussion whether this concept by Sainul Abideen is authentic or a hoax (the picture on arabnews surely was photoshopped, but who does not?).
...I'm now going for dinner and will then continue my rant.
Update: Well, after three days of torching and crakin' and rhymin' and stealin' I'm back. After looking again at the articles mentioned above I come to the conclusion that infosthetics.com is the only source which was not trapped by its own ressentiments. IMHO the whole discussion in the comments sections about compression technology is not really to the point and not so relevant here. It's interesting to see that the commentators doubt the credibility of a researcher and a news source partly because of its arab/indian/non-western background.
Update: Wikipedia knows more: Take a look at Rainbow (data storage) and the corresponding discussion.
2006-11-27 technorati vs. icerocketI finally gave up on technorati. The service itself is still a great idea, the API is quite good. However, the page too often seems slow and many including me have problems indexing their pages.
So I switched to Icerocket.com. Looks good so far. Indexing seems fast.
From now on the tags for each posting link to an icerocket-result-page to my del.icio.us account focusing on the tag and my blog. In addition I wrote a tagcloud plugin for PhpWiki using metadata info from the wiki pages. Finally the Conversation-link below each post links to a icerocket-result-page showing inlinks for that particular post.
2006-11-23 machinima dot com about south park wow episodemachinima.com has some inside info on the recent South Park episode featuring World Of Warcraft.
...but we usually produce South Park in a week.
Reminds of the concept of Raumstation Kuhbase (the serial) Mr. Markus Loder-Taucher and me had some years ago. Oh, and at some point in history the South Park team must have switched from Softimage to Maya. It's always a bit funny to get reminded that they use such a 3D powerhouse to do their stuff.
Btw, worth noting is the company history of those two software packages. Softimage was founded 1986, merged with Microsoft Corp. in 1994, and was acquired (without Microsoft) in 1998 by Avid Technology Inc.
Maya was first released in 1998 after SGI acquired Alias and Wavefront (which acquired TDI in 1993) in 1995. In 2005 Alias was sold by the cash-strapped SGI to the Teachers' pension fund of Ontario and the private equity investment firm Accel-KKR. By the end of 2005 Alias was again sold, this time to Autodesk.
Sources: accad.osu.edu and en.wikipedia.org
2006-11-23 kilo releaseShameless semi-self-promotion: Tomorrow my fellow friends Florian and Markus aka Kilo will release their second album. Currently I'm finishing a music video for them which will premiere at Kilo's release party this Saturday.
Listen to samples at boomkat.com
2006-11-06 senses of cinemaIssue 41 of
Senses of Cinema
is online at
www.sensesofcinema.com
Articles include:
Features
- Dziga Vertov
- Mapping Catalonia in 1967: The Barcelona School
- Erice-Kiarostami: Correspondences
- A Scanner Darkly
- Perfect Storm, Imperfect Death
- Alfred Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache
- Ten Canoes
Bill Morrison
- Interview with Bill Morrison
- The Film of Her
Plus
- Eisenstein and his Method
- Joris Ivens and Indonesia Calling
- Tamil Cinema
- Sufi Poeticism and Contemporary Iranian Cinema
- Chinese Movies' Other Visual Pleasures
- The Making of Hunt Angels
- Film Exhibition in Gippsland
- Adapting the Epic from Film to Television
- Graham Kennedy: television, film, authenticity
DVD Reviews
- Renoir's Toni
- Su Friedrich Collection
- Koji Yamamura Animation Works
Plus:
GREAT DIRECTORS - Mauro Bolognini, Leos Carax, John Frankenheimer, Werner Herzog, Joseph H. Lewis
TOP TENS / FESTIVAL REPORTS / BOOK REVIEWS / CTEQ ANNOTATIONS
2006-11-03 seideseinseidesein is an interactive environment, which explores communication in virtual 3D space.
take a look at: jReality
2006-11-03 Javascript 3DWhile this has no use, closely resembles the year 1986, and is based on a hack I wouldn’t tell my dog I was responsible for, at least it works. Why you would want it to work seems to be the point I have missed. I wonder how many hours have gone into this. If you add to that the number of days spent on Web OS, AjaxOS, and the 1,000,000,000 fading drag-and-drop scripts written by all the people that have to be special - if you take all that time and convert it at the rate of $5/hour (which we all know is clearly overpayment) you could probably buy Australia - the continent and the country. And build a rocket ship to Uranus. But it still works well - nice job.
Says Dan about 3D rendering in JavaScript.
2006-11-02 Eco de IslamHerr Eco: Klappe halten? Nein danke!
via TXTNWS auf kewil.
Merke: MaMa-Syndrom
