Hey, it’s a fun interactive map of Springfield.
via Neatorama
August 19th, 2008
McCain staffer: Fuck Dungeons & Dragons.
It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.
August 18th, 2008
Hear the story of Xenu as explained by nutjob L. Ron Hubbard’s own creepy voice. Apparently, the distant past looked exactly like the 1950s.
August 17th, 2008
August 15th, 2008
Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.
Sweet.
Ok, this is amazing. And nerdy. Students at the University of Washington have developed a system to improve video with still photographs. If I understand correctly, they have written software that uses video of a static scene footage to produce a 3D model of the scene. Then they can apply the higher resolution of a photograph taken of the same scene back onto the video. They also do some other awesome stuff. The most amazing thing is probably where they remove a no parking sign from a shot. They replace the background that the sign is covering up by using information from other frames of the shot. Wow.
August 13th, 2008