July 2009
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Sixty-one Essential Postmodern Reads: an annotated... →
I’ve read Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy (meh), Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (incredible), Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle (meh-ish - PKD has much better), Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (probably the most incredible-while-hardest book I ever read), and of course, Hamlet. (via Kottke)
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I like to make cool things
Today I had the last presentation of the first year of my Master’s degree in Multimedia. Therefore, for the next couple of months, I want to do nothing, hear nothing, read nothing in which acronyms are an essential part of communication. But still, I did learn quite a lot in the last ten months, and go the chance to work in cool stuff. The major highlights:
The first major work we were...
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Invisible flash takes photos without the glare →
The Null Device links to the ‘dark flash’, which is an infrared flash that could turn bright flashes in the night obsolete (saving all those people in say, football stadiums, the embarrassement of being seen using a light source with a range of 8 meters to snap a picture of the far side goal). But I started thinking, isn’t this something you can already do. There are plenty of...
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Google releasing Chrome Operating System →
No shit!
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“Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers’ worth...”
– Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - This review of Transformers 2 is one of the funniest I ever read. I haven’t seen it yet and I’m pretty sure it’s a horrid movie but still this review made me want to watch it: It’s like a road accident ahead, you can’t avoid...
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