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Banlieue 13, Luc Besson was involved in some way (which made at least some people watch it), it has no plot worth mentioning (which is no problem for the intended audience since there is a considerable amount of violence and a girl), but there are people jumping off buildings (which is cool), like the popular parcours
-videos.
Oh and they’re planning a sequel. Probably since they couldn’t do a remake for some reason…
Amazing movie, excellent camerawork and really long shots:
These skips in brightness are not in the movie, but due to my n00bness with ImageMagick, I wanted to brighten the images up, but it seemingly did some image-specific histogram-fiddling. Might correct that later.
Oh, look, it’s all black and white…
Just saw these film mosaics
on information aesthetics and thought I’d share my own version.
For more see the moviehist-tag on this blog.
I give you: Tank Girl: In 2033, justice rides a tank and wears lip gloss.
There is no particular reason to this choice, just found it on my disk.
Each column corresponds to four frames of the original video, the color of each pixel is the average color of the corresponding rows of these frames. Apart from looking funky, this view allows you to see vertical movement (for example the rolling credits at the end) and cuts easier.
Each row shows 5120 frames (in case you wonder, the averaging program generates slices of 1024 frames), which should be 3.4 minutes.
I’ll release the toolset used (it’s not processing
, btw), it makes use of OpenCV, Image Magick and some shell script. That is, run it on your favorite Unix derivate. Soon.
And if I can spare some disk space, there will be more average images of more movies. Watch out for the moviehist tag!
It took them a timespan long enough to make me hopeful that not all geeks are possessed by evil mad scientist-daemons:
Circumvent the security mechanism of that cool toy in your bedroom and print some Laser Tattoos on your skin!
Despite some quite horrible pictures be sure to read the last page, and let’s wonder all together, how somebody can be so highly concentrated at keeping their lower arm still, that they won’t even notice their upper arm being cut, accidentally, by a laser…
I wonder if it’ll be permanent.
And what will the people in charge of the industrial robot with the kilowatt-scale laser at the local college be doing in the next weeks… They really must be getting tired of cutting hundreds of geckos out of wood, steel and the floor, although the smell of burnt wooden gecko might be more pleasing to the audience than that of human flesh, depending on the audience.
via hackaday
Married to the Sea (MTTS
) seems like a nice web comic (well, cross-clicking through the archives I found some episodes featuring the weird humor I appreciate in comics), until you read the FAQ:
We do not offer online syndication of TFD/ND/MTTS. You may not run a daily syndication or create/provide a public “feed” of TFD/ND/MTTS, RSS or otherwise.
[...] Online “syndication” deprives us of this income, as well as the ability to show new projects, bonus comics, and other additional content to our readers.
[...] You may not operate a daily “feed” of TFD/MTTS/ND.
Although I don’t think they actually may refrain anybody from checking the website for new submissions at intervals and automatically create a simple feed that only includes a link to the newest episode (so there’s nothing copyrighted in the feed).
But I really don’t like that attitude. Every popular web comic offers a feed, just as every remotely popular web comic offers a shop equipped with more-or-less witty and/or good-looking t-shirts and accessories. There is no reason, why the creators couldn’t advertise their shop or any specials in their feed… And the creators don’t seem like a .com-era
company, coming from a time where the number of page impressions
counted above everything…
As much as I dislike most aspects of the all-shiny Web 2.0
, the idea of feeds is quite brilliant — and, on second thought, the comic isn’t quite good enough to force me to visit the website manually every day…
The Gengo
-plugin for wordpress claims to support multilingual blogging, so I’ll give it a try with this utterly contentless post (which exists in english and german). Let’s see what happens!
5 Minutes later… There is no way to switch the current language in any human-compliant way. Gengo does come with two widgets, one displaying just a static list of available languages (wow.) and the other is supposed to (judging by the name) switch the displayed language, but due to major bugs in the JavaScript, it never works. And of course there is no fall-back to something non-scripty.
So I’ll keep up with my way of tagging the posts with their language code and some not very sophisticated magic in my custom theme to display some German messages, where appropriate.
On the non-fail side: another plugin/widget puts my currently listened-to albums somewhere (with JavaScript look at the top edge of the screen, without look at the bottom of the page). Yes, it’s really useless but I swear there won’t be anything like the mood
-descriptions or lolcats. Ever.
Google has the annoying habit of ignoring the language-setting in your browser and instead locating its users by georesolving their IP-addresses. Thus I get this message on accessing gmail.com:
If you’re traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.
Oh, and we’d like to link the URL above, but we’re not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
I doubt this text will stay online long :)
People might call it unprofessional…
I see no use at all in Snap, the annoying service that pops up a postage-stamp sized, way too high compressed, and thus completely useless screenshot of the linked-to websites when the mouse resides on a link. It only does so on websites which include Snap’s script, when this would be so much better suited as a browser extension that can either be disabled (or just not be installed) or that works on all websites.
This annoying website of mine, probably shows a pop-up message when viewed with Firefox under Windows, whining about missing fonts nobody needs, cares for, nor is in any way likely to download, just because some suspicious-looking pop-up said so. And I’m tremendously pleased to announce, that it also does so on Snap’s screenshot-cluster, which then looks like this:
Spectacular. I wonder, though, why the window has no title-bar… They seem to use Windows, or some Redmond
-themed linux without a window-manager…
It’s really complicated! Like, when you don’t send the first letter, it totally doesn’t work…
$ curl -I http://abc.net.au/gruentransfer TTP/1.0 301 Found Location: http://www.abc.net.au/gruentransfer
Diese Seite ist vor Politikern geschützt.
Ihr Browser versucht gerade, eine Seite aus dem sogenannten Internet auszudrucken.
Das Internet ist ein weltweites Netzwerk von Computern, welches den Menschen ganz neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation bietet. Da Politiker im Regelfall von neuen Dingen nichts verstehen, halten wir es für notwendig, sie davor zu schützen. Dies ist im beidseitigen Interesse, da unnötige Angstzustände bei ihnen verhindert werden, ebenso wie es uns vor profilierungs- und machtsüchtigen Politikern schützt.
Sollten Sie der Meinung sein, dass Sie diese Internetseite dennoch sehen sollten, so können Sie jederzeit durch Gebrauch eines sog. Internetbrowsers darauf zugreifen. Dazu sind allerdings minimale Computerkenntnisse erforderlich. Sollten Sie nicht über diese verfügen, vergessen Sie bitte einfach dieses Internet und lassen Sie uns in Ruhe.
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