Comment They found Wakanda! (Score 1) 192
Hehehe
Comment Gamestar Mechanic (Score 2) 121
My 9 year son really liked using the gamestarmechanic.com site. It's basically a game level designer disguised as a game.
Also, modding Minecraft might be something to look into.
Comment Great for video production (Score 1) 161
This would be a great alternative to greenscreening a window for an indie movie production. Hang the remote on the cameraman, and then you dont have to worry about tracking the motion, and comping in a fake shot. And reflections from the room should show up correctly too.
Comment Re:One word: Maintenance (Score 1) 131
I have created a few installations like you're talking about and I have to agree that this is the most important point. You have to design everything with the idea that a bunch of 6 year olds are going to be banging on it for several hours straight everyday. And likely, noone from the museum staff will come by to check it out but maybe once a week. If you're looking at using buttons, I suggest going to a company that makes elevator button panels. Those things are indestructible.
Also, you have to remember to design things to be wheelchair accessible.
Comment Use Google SearchWiki (Score 2, Informative) 564
Add a Google SearchWiki note to that search result saying something like "Note to potential employer: This is not the $REALNAME whose resume you have in your hands."
And if its the first time they've seen a SearchWiki tag, it might freak them out and then they'll definitely remember you.
Submission + - Lightroom vs. Aperture
Nonu writes: Adobe has officially released its Aperture killer, Lightroom, and the reviews are starting to pop up. Ars looks at Lightroom and concludes that it's a better choice for those without bleeding-edge hardware. 'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as it was designed for bleeding edge machines. On a quad Core 2 Duo Xeon, it is very usable but Lightroom just feels faster for everything regardless of hardware. Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to what the single 3-D card can do. Lightroom does everything with the CPU and so it is likely to gain more speed as multicore systems get faster.'
Submission + - iTunes detects musical hoax
holy_calamity writes: iTunes habit of accessing CDDB has bust open a musical fraud in the usually quiet world of classical piano. Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto are identified by the player as belonging to other performers. A more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers.
Don't Believe What You See at the Movies 441
MattSparkes writes "Many images you see in a magazine are Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at the cinema is any more genuine. In the film 'Blood Diamond', tears were added to Jennifer Connolly's face after a scene was shot. According to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors' expressions. 'Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing; removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves.' The article mentions the moral qualms digital effects people have over performing these manipulations, and the steps actors are taking to protect their digital assets."
Journal Journal: God as identified and/or defined by US (Good, Bad, or Evil)? 3
God as identified and/or defined by anyone, anything, any religion, any government
Too Know and Too Fear will always be mutually exclusive or inversely proportional!
Feed Hacking My Child's Brain, Part 3 (wired.com)
Journal Journal: Ford Vehicles to Read Email 1
In an update to a prior Slashdot story from December, news sources such as WBIR are carrying news states the new Ford and Microsoft service called Sync will be hitting the roads in the fall of 2007, as mentioned at the recent Chicago Auto Show. The service would be able to read the emails and using an audio system will be capable of reading the email contents aloud.
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