Tallest Living Man Reinstated as Tallest Living Man (5)
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Guinness World Records announced that China’s Bao Xi Shun (7 feet 8.95 inches) has recaptured the record as the world’s Tallest Living Man from Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk (8 feet 5.5 inch). Guidelines for the title were amended earlier this year, in order to ensure the highest level of accuracy in determining this category. All contenders to the Tallest Living Man title must now be measured in person by an official Guinness World Records adjudicator. As ...
Dumbest salvo yet in the war on terror, courtesy of the London police (35)
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Today I spotted this sign at a Tesco's grocery store in Islington, London -- it might just be the single stupidest salvo in the war on terror to date, courtesy of the London Metropolitan Police: Terrorism: If you suspect it, report it TERRORISTS NEED INFORMATION Observation and surveillance help terrorists plan attacks. Have you seen anyone taking pictures of security arrangements? TERRORISTS NEED TRANSPORTATION If you work in vehicle hire or sales, has a sale ...
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Sam said:
As much as I hate what the US is doing with regard to security and privacy (or the lack of) and scaring people, I think the UK is doing an even scarier job. Their posters and police worry me, I'm afraid they'll continue on their current path, creating a true Big Brother society, something similar to V for Vendetta.
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Clay said:
what a lovely little country they are building over there.
Dumbest salvo yet in the war on terror, courtesy of the London police (4)
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Today I spotted this sign at a Tesco's grocery store in Islington, London -- it might just be the single stupidest salvo in the war on terror to date, courtesy of the London Metropolitan Police: Terrorism: If you suspect it, report it TERRORISTS NEED INFORMATION Observation and surveillance help terrorists plan attacks. Have you seen anyone taking pictures of security arrangements? TERRORISTS NEED TRANSPORTATION If you work in vehicle hire or sales, has a sale ...
Brilliantly Confusing picture (1)
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Betajbadshah means The king of Hearts. This message has been posted on HMGoogleGroup by: Betaj BadshahGoto Message, Contact Author, Discuss...
Noise Ninja for Lightroom; LR2 videos and news (3)
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Fernando Z.* at Picture Code writes, "I just released version 2.1.2 of the Noise Ninja Standalone application, and this release features support for sending multiple photos at a time from Lightroom 2 to Noise Ninja. I've also just added a new video to our FAQ that shows how to take advantage of this new build and Lightroom 2's enhanced External Editor support." [Via Tom Hogarty] "To celebrate the launch of LR2," writes John Arnold, "I'll ...
(Momentary) King of the Kindle (3)
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This is nice: It won’t last — Stephenie Meyer fans, outraged that their leader was deposed even momentarily, will no doubt purchase Kindles for the sole purpose of buying electronic copies of The Host, thus putting her back on top. Also, I expect to be visited by a teenage vampire death squad any second now. But until I’m turned into a bloodless husk (or, alternately, a carrier for an alien intelligence — you get options ...
The predictable lifecycle of the skeptic (38)
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The Kindle is a lousy idea. No one will read a book that way. The Kindle is late. Amazon has no clue how to launch a product. The Kindle is poorly designed. See, we told you. The Kindle's pricing model hurts book publishers. It will never be adopted by them. The Kindle is pretty cool. Non-techies like it. The Kindle is sold out. Amazon doesn't know how to produce a product. The Kindle is selling ...
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Dan Dawson said:
*Sigh* This sounds far too much like the way I think about so many new ideas. I need to move from being pessimistic about new products to better discerning which ones the fickle market will adopt.
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Umang Saini said:
Like the story. And this comes amid the rumors of a letter (8.5"x11")sized Kindle aimed at the $5.5b textbook market of USA. Go Kindle.
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David said:
Very funny.Good call from Seth.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
In reality the skeptic changes his tune after presented with a proven success, so the last line is typically:I always knew Amazon had the potential to do great things.
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Josh Bancroft said:
LOL. So true. :-)
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Jay said:
Cool.
One Man's Audacious Plan to Change the Way the World Drives (41)
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Shai Agassi looks up and down the massive rectangular table in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and begins to worry. He knows he's out of his league here. For the last day and a half, he's been listening to an elite corps of Israeli and US politicians, businesspeople, and intellectuals debate the state of the world. Agassi is just one of 60 sequestered in a Washington, DC, hotel for a conference run by the Saban Center for ...
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Jeff said:
Great read - and I guess we will see if he can make the dream a reality. At least the approach is different than the ones that have been tried so far.
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James said:
One of the most interesting pieces that I've read on breaking our addiction to fossil fuels.
Time-lapse movies of Milky Way (5)
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I spent a week in King's Canyon/Sequoia National Park a couple weeks ago (during the new moon), and came away with two surprisingy amazing time-lapse movies of the Milky Way galaxy traveling across the night sky. You may want to set your browser to full screen for best effect. (These are flash animations of sequential frames. See tech details below.)www.danheller.com/kings-canyon-star-trails-1www.danheller.com/kings-canyon-star-trails-2 Each exposure was 30 seconds at f2.8 at ISO 3200 (Canon 1DsMark3, EF 16-35mm f2.8L ...
Fixing Video with Photographs (32)
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This system, by students at the University of Washington, uses still photographs or one single frame of a video scene to automatically improve video. The improvements are amazing. Video might contain artifacts like overexposure and low-resolution imagery and this system takes cues from still images of the scene to bring almost the entire video up to photographic quality. Can’t wait for this to hit our local point and shoot - in maybe five years. Click ...
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Robert said:
Some very clever stuff here. The next step from your rostrum software dadn. Object removal from video at the end of the demo was impressive.
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Ben Timms said:
Impressive!
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Tim C. said:
This is some pretty amazing stuff!
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Matt said:
Yeah but how do you serve ads with it?
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James said:
Holy crap. This reminds me of that vid from a couple months ago of the software that could transform objects shot on video.My favorite parts were the camera stabilization and the sign at the end. Crazy.
Fixing Video with Photographs (59)
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This system, by students at the University of Washington, uses still photographs or one single frame of a video scene to automatically improve video. The improvements are amazing. Video might contain artifacts like overexposure and low-resolution imagery and this system takes cues from still images of the scene to bring almost the entire video up to photographic quality. Can’t wait for this to hit our local point and shoot - in maybe five years. Click ...
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glongman said:
amazing
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James said:
Holy crap. This reminds me of that vid from a couple months ago of the software that could transform objects shot on video.My favorite parts were the camera stabilization and the sign at the end. Crazy.
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Ben Timms said:
Impressive!
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Matt said:
Yeah but how do you serve ads with it?
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Tim C. said:
This is some pretty amazing stuff!
Nikon D700 Review (By Scott Kelby) (6)
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A few weeks back, I went ahead and bought the new Nikon D700, but I really wanted to spend some time with it, and shoot in a number of different situations and scenarios, before I gave you my review. Now that I have a few thousands shots on it, I’m ready to share what I’ve learned. My Field Report The D700 was announced on July 1st, and Nikon seeded a number of photo sites with ...
Zhang Yimou's gold medal (37)
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I was one of the allegedly three billion people watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on TV, and I think I received the intended message: China is here, big time. The scope, precision and beauty of the production was, you will agree, astonishing. The distinguished director Zhang Yimou was given $300 million and full reign of his imagination, and perhaps some of his background in opera was also useful. The sheer size of ...
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Christopher Gillespie said:
Roger Ebert hits the nail on the head. We are too individualistic too accomplish anything like 2,008 drummers in sync. Plus we'd find it boring.
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Vinay said:
"Our Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley and his first lady, Maggie, were in the audience in the stadium. The city is making a bid for the 2016 Olympics. What was Daley thinking? How to compete with this ? He can forget about it. The ceremony was one of a kind, possibly never to be equaled." It was easily the best show I have ever seen. And I agree with Roger, it's going to be hard if not impossible to match it.
Photo sharing - The Next Generation (12)
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I have been wanting to buy a digital photo frame for a while now, mostly because I never get to regularly see any of the photos I take with my digital camera as they are stored on a computer which I don't leave permanently switched on. However, the thing that keeps putting me off about them is the time consuming task of having to manually copy photos from the computer onto a chip and then ...
25 Sites to Experience the Beijing Summer Olympics (35)
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Once every four years athletes from around the world come together to compete in the summer Olympics. This year they have traveled to Beijing, China, and with the games about to begin, we’ve gathered 25 sites to help you experience them and learn more. Discover the various sports and athletes, create activities for the kids, and maybe even feed those that come over to watch the festivities with you. What sports will you be watching ...
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Jeff said:
Fired up about the Olympics? Wanna dig in digitally? Visit these sites compiled by Mashable.
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