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I posted this YouTube video before using the standard method. This time I’m attempting to post it using Vladimir Prelovac’s plug-in. He claims it will make the video viewable on iPhones and iPads. Update: I just checked it on my iPhone and it worked.

I like to fool around with Blender, the 3D modeling and animation software. For the most part, in Blender you have to create your own content by sculpting and painting things from scratch. But what if you have a bunch of scientific data that you want to visualize? Evidently you can use VTK and other [...]

Eric S. Raymond is a Free Software advocate and has done much to promote and organize Free Software efforts so it was most surprising when he got a letter from Microsoft offering him a job. ESR’s response was crass but humorous. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. I’d thank you for your [...]

There appears to be a bug in Safari 4 running on Snow Leopard (MacOS X 10.6.1). Safari does not handle the <pre> tag correctly The line below should look like this (the letters a-z all lower case): abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy But instead it looks like this: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy For some reason various letters don’t show up. If you [...]

LuxRender LuxRender is a new, open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis. Rendering with LuxRender means simulating the flow of light according to physical equations. This produces realistic, photographic-quality images. – LuxRender.net As I understand it, an unbiased renderer is one which attempts to simulate the physical properties of light. Biased [...]

Until recently domain names (ie:google.com, whitehouse.gov) could only contain ASCII letters, numbers and the hyphen (-). In 1998 The National University of Singapore began researching the possibility of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) which would allow non-ASCII characters. IDN’s are still being tested, but several domain names have been created using the scripts of various languages. [...]

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a great game where you try to move a ball across the screen by drawing objects with a crayon. This is what it would be like if your drawings came to life (well, sort of). I played it myself and it’s tremendous fun.

Gigapixel images contain about 1 billion pixels. That works out to about 32,768 by 32,768 pixels. The average computer screen is about 1,200 pixels wide so to view a gigapixel image requires you to do a lot of zooming in and out and panning about. A gigapixel image requires lots of memory so viewing an [...]

Watch the Windows ads. Watch the Apple ads. Apple has been running the “I’m a PC and I’m a Mac” commercials since 2006 without a word from Microsoft. Finally Microsoft has responded and created an ad which says, “I’m a PC and I’ve been made into a stereotype.” From TechCrunch.com [The new Microsoft ads] show [...]