Findings
I occasionally come across interesting articles, videos, games, photos, or other material on the Internet. I’ll post them here.
Finally got around to checking out Richa’s blog.
Fantastic.
http://dreamdelusion.wordpress.com
Read it. Comment on it. You’ll be smarter for it – and probably leave with a smile on your face.
Aniruddh sent me this video of a photographer who put a bunch of tilt-shifted photos together to create an animation with a Gumby look. Really creative, I think.
Click through for the video.
A cynical spoof on Dora the Explorer from the folks at Saturday Night Live:
You want to check out these photos.
Last Wednesday (March 11th), people in India and other countries with large Hindu populations celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors. Holi is celebrated as a welcoming of Spring, and a celebration of the triumph of good over evil. What that translates to in action is an enthusiastic dropping of inhibitions, as people chase each other and playfully splash colorful paint, powder and water on each other.
Jonathan Jarvis created a fantastic video, which goes over what people mean when they say “Credit Crisis”. What caused it? What’s its impact? Who are the key players? You need to watch this.
In Apple iPhoto ‘09, you can tag faces in photos. iPhoto then scans all your photos and finds faces it thinks belong to someone you know. You have to click Kate Winslet or Not Kate Winslet to tell it whether it’s correct or not.
Zach was tagging photos of me, and iPhoto was giving suggestions. One of its suggestions sadly missed the mark:
Chris sent me this short film. It’s really sweet. As Chris said, “amazing creation of mood without a single word spoke.” The score is particularly well done.
Click through to watch it in high quality.
DzineBlog has a list of 54 creative logos, which I really enjoyed looking through.
Click through for some of my favorites.
The theory is that it’s distracting to hold a phone and drive with just one hand. But a large body of research now shows that a hands-free phone poses no less danger than a hand-held one — that the problem is not your hands but your brain.
“It’s not that your hands aren’t on the wheel,” said David Strayer, director of the Applied Cognition Laboratory at the University of Utah and a leading researcher on cellphone safety. “It’s that your mind is not on the road.”
Here’s a look at some of the security features (surely some of them aren’t disclosed) which protect the President from attacks or mishaps while he’s driving around.
