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Scary alien squid with elbows (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html

This is some freaky-assed stuff. Shell is drilling, and this... thing... floats by.

In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages.

Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science.

Yeah... I'd nuke it from orbit to be sure... Posted in: deep sea , scary , squid , video

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Revenge (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

Cheater's Trailer Destroyed by Boat - Watch more Free Videos Posted in: boat , revenge , video

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Pete Drake - Forever (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

Best described via BoingBoing (via Sound Scavengers):

Peter Frampton wasn't the first guitar player to put a plastic tube in his mouth to make his instrument talk. Pete Drake, a phenomenal steel guitar player, shows his stuff in the delightful video with an unusually moribund group of backup singers, musicians, and people who are sitting around in what appears to be a drug- or witchcraft-induced trance. When my wife saw this video she said, "This is where David Lynch got his ideas." Posted in: guitar , video

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This is how I feel tonight (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

Kill Bill - Eclectic Method REMIX from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. Posted in: kill bill , remix , video

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Wow... so true! (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

You know, I have tried to stay out of the political shenanigans on LJ, but this was too funny. As you know, I plan to throw away my vote on a very obscure 5th Jedi party candidate, but I still hate the GOP ever since Reagan (there, I said it, I hated the Bedtime for Bonzo as president). After being forced to watch most of "Camp Rock" and "High School Musical" at an unnamed person's house*, I felt this fake trailer REALLY hit the mark, down to the unwatchable dance numbers and the overuse of a record needle skipping to replace a spit-take.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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* (I got even, I made them watch "Earth Girls are Easy," and next on my plate is "Big Trouble in Little China") Posted in: humor , jedi , palin , silly , video

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samba de amigo (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

i read on gamespot that samba de amigo is coming out on the wii. i was curious to see if there were any youtube videos and i came across this gem. when i was watching it, i found myself predicting each of his moves, as if he and i were of the same dancing mind. sadly, i realize that this is what people actually see when i am dancing.

Posted in: on noel , video

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Jesus Is My Friend (OsakaNYC (kitzke)) by matt

Between the catchy beat, the enthusiam, the mountie comparisons… I don’t know what part is the best.

Zap!

Posted in: funny , jesus , posts , video

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Red Band Trailer for Zack and Miri Make a Porno is HERE! (Super Dave's Mundanities (DaveChen)) by dave

Red band trailer for Kevin Smith’s film that recently went from NC-17 to rated R thanks to an appeal. Looks hilarious… and sexual. Star Wars porn is genius.

is mccain palin’s biyatch? (Super Dave's Mundanities (DaveChen)) by dave

Slightly NSFW vid (language). Pretty funny. The chick looks a lot like Governor Mooseburger.

Posted in: politics , video

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computational photography (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

i'd gotten interested in computational photography at my last job, where i applied some HDR algorithms to satellite data. at SIGGRAPH, they offered several talks/papers on the topic as well as a great class (esp the sections given by jack tumblin) which reviewed the recent academic literature (there's been a lot) from the past 2 years.

at this point, the relevant question would be: what is computational photography? according to their website:

Computational photography combines plentiful computing, digital sensors, modern optics, actuators, and smart lights to escape the limitations of traditional film cameras and enables novel imaging applications. Unbounded dynamic range, variable focus, resolution, and depth of field, hints about shape, reflectance, and lighting, and new interactive forms of photos that are partly snapshots and partly videos are just some of the new applications found in Computational Photography.

an excess of text in a post about imagery is pretty lame, so in this post, i'll just describe (at a super high level) and link to some cool applications in this area.

the area that i had initially gotten interested in and which is becoming much more mainstream now is HDR imagery. high dynamic range images are ones which have scenes with super bright areas and super dark areas. to capture HDR images, ordinary cameras will capture several exposures of the exact same scene. post processing will combine the exposures into a single image which effectively conveys those high dynamic ranges on our low dynamic range monitors. tweaking the parameters to these algorithms can give photographers artistic license, yielding sometimes surreal looking photos:

programs like photoshop currently support HDR file formats and tone mapping and certain cameras offer features like auto bracketing, which can help in acquiring the exposures used as inputs into HDR tone mapping.

another easily accessible area is in panorama/auto stitching. these have been out for a while now, i got a program to do this with my canon SD700 2 years ago and photoshop CS3 has this in there too. this is a complex problem however, as if you've tried stitching together >100 gigapixels worth of images together, you'll find out what your computer isn't so happy. a recent SIGGRAPH talk demonstrated an algorithm which took an hour crunch on a notebook on a problem which took my work computer several days (before crashing and burning).

a couple areas were targeted towards removing blur from photos. a couple years ago, mitubishi announced it would develop a camera which would facilitate motion deblurring. the image linked above and this paper (both show some pretty amazing results) are software techniques to remove blur. this paper (image below) even gives an algorithm for removing haze:

with sites like flickr, the widespread availablity of geolocated images is now a reality. one pretty freaky project builds up a statistical analysis of the outdoor lighting conditions in these large data sets so that, given a time stamp, the system can identify the location to within 50 miles!

if you've ever had to crop or resize an image, watch the video above. they have a method to interactively size images and movies without distorting proportions. ...just watch it.

a super cool demo related to the problems i work on now is microsoft's photo tourism/photosynth. it effectively recreates 3d spaces from 2d photos, allowing the user to take virtual tours.

above is another cool demo out of microsoft research called unwrap mosaics. the intermediate stage (the unwrapped mosaic) is frightfully reminiscent of a picasso painting, but the end product and apparent ease with which its produced is almost comically easy.

Posted in: cs , engineering , math , pictures , video

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VA beach 2008 (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

on our annual VA beach vacation, my family rented a cavernous 22 person mansion. the house was so big, it even had its own elevator. thing is though, that we're filipino and we roll third-world-style, so there were 34 (all of whom were related) of us overflowing that house.

i took the redeye to JFK and we took the 8 hour drive down. new to the family this year is malissa's newborn son, ty:

the cool thing about VA beach is that there's a lot of wildlife. last year while kayaking, we were chased by a monstrous sea snake. and the highlight of trip trip was the pods of wild dolphins swimming and jumping within 20 yards of us:

christian bought a hookah and showed off some of his tricks, namely smoke bubbles. if you look closely at the picture below (or at the link above), you can see the smoke swirling inside of the bubble. just dip a spent toilet paper roll into some dishwater and blow the smoke into it.

despite living by the beach and having a pool, i somehow still do not know how to swim. so of course, i'm getting shown up by all my little cousins who are swimming circles around me. this is a video of katrina jumping into the pool with reckless abandon, in contrast to me, who sits at the edge of the pool with paranoid caution:

cowabunga!

and always one to entertain, a video of christian demonstrating his patented dance move, throwing the dust:

Posted in: pictures , tripping , video

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my skydiving video (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

hahaha, jin says i look like i'm just waiting in line for a smoothie. Posted in: video

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christian the lion (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

the video below is not staged, actually from a true story:

Posted in: video

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slow motion lightning (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

Posted in: pictures , video

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I am all for nature, but this is f'n creepy looking (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

According to a local report, A strange prehistoric creature has been found in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The creature, still unidentified, appeared in a flooded ditch at a construction site. Evidently the deep ditch was inundated by a underground river and sat full of water for quite some time.

The report goes on to say that a few months later, some workers spotted some movement in the water. When they threw some of their lunch in the water, the workers were amazed to see movement in the ditch.

Puzzled, the worked investigated and brought up the creature. When the creature tried to bite, the workers had to kill it with some nearby equipment. The workers estimated the size of the creature at 5 feet.

Now, on boards, people say this is a triops, but I am not so sure due to the size. While this thing may not be 5 feet long like they claim, it's over a few inches, which is how big triops get. Some say it's a horseshoe crab. Others make alien facehugger comments. Posted in: facehugger , russia , triops , video

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One of the coolest videos you'll see today (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

With Big Brother watching more and more, we're starting to see things we wouldn't have the opportunity to see, or in this case, survive. This is what the inside of a bank looks like when it's being shredded by a tornado. It's amazing the camera and tapes survived this.

Note: You'll have to sit through an ad. Sorry about that.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2008/06/03/vo.tornado.surveillance.video.FirstStateBank Posted in: bank , tornado , video

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Trojan Horse - The Chaser (Punkadyne Labs (Punkwalrus))

Being at the Hopkins-Walters house is like a relaxacon. Here's another video they shared with me. "Would anyone fall for a Trojan Horse today?" Well, not the Turks, at any rate, right? Posted in: balticon , cons , conventions , video

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colbert parodies o’reilly (Super Dave's Mundanities (DaveChen)) by dave

Posted in: video

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dragon hunter 2 (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

i really hope my company didn't do this game:

Posted in: video

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Testing a YouTube video (niload (kennedye)) by erik

Presidents Race at Nationals Park

Testing YouTube’s post-to-weblog feature with a video shot at Friday’s Nationals game.

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Posted in: general , nationals , test , video , youtube

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KEN LEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (eccentric squares (Kuya)) by noel

IF YOU KNOW A KEN LEE, YOU MUST SEND THIS TO THEM!

and the original ken lee:
Posted in: video

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Video: Amazon Kindle Unboxing and First Impressions (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

I finally broke down and ordered an Amazon Kindle, now that they’re back in stock. It’s an ebook reader device, and since I read so much (borderline obsession), and there are growning piles of dead tree versions of books all over my house, I figured a Kindle was a good idea.

In this video, we go over the packaging, basic functions of the device, discuss its wireless features, have a look at the fabulous (dare I say revolutionary?) electronic ink screen, and generally check out the new gadget.

Camera help and cameo appearances by my wife Rachel and our son Gabe. You can download the higher quality original Quicktime movie file (about 6 minutes, 72MB), or get a code snippet to embed/share this video on your own site by clicking the little “connect the dots” icon in the player above.

I’ll be posting more thoughts as I use the Kindle more (I’ve had it less than 24 hours), but the verdict so far is: I LOVE this thing! I only wish I hadn’t had to wait so long for Amazon to get them back in stock.

You can find out more about the Kindle, browse the books, newspapers, and magazines available for it, and generally get more information at Amazon’s Kindle page (affiliate link - if you decide to buy one, and use that link, I get a small percentage, which helps to pay for my gadget buying habit).

Post a comment or message me on Twitter if you have any questions, and stay tuned for a lot more Kindle information in the days and weeks to come!

Update: There’s a LOT of great discussion going on down in the comments for this post. I’ve been typing like mad, answering questions, so make sure you have a look if you’re interested in what book formats the Kindle can support, what you can use the SD card for, what I think of the DRM on the Kindle, how the design feels in my hands how to use the Kindle to read RSS feeds for free, and more!

Posted in: amazon , blog , books , ebooks , gadgets , hardware , ink , kindle , reader , unboxing , video , wireless

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Video: Podcasting in Plain English (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

Nobody explains concepts like blogs, wikis, Twitter, RSS, photo sharing, and the like in “plain english” better than Lee LeFever and the gang at Common Craft. I can’t recommend their videos highly enough, and I use them ALL THE TIME to teach people about this “social media” stuff that we do.

Lee and crew have done it again with their latest video, “Podcasting in Plain English“.

Stop what you’re doing and watch it now.

Then share it with anyone to whom you’ve ever tried or wanted to explain what podcasting is. Rinse and repeat for any of the awesome videos at Common Craft.

If you want to receive the occasional video and audio podcasts that I do here on TinyScreenfuls, then make sure you’re subscribed to the TinyPodcast feed. I first started podcasting in 2005, but it’s become kind of sporadic lately. I’ve got big plans for the show, and my show on Intel Software Network, called Bit Stories, this year! Subscribe now if you’re interested, and automatically get the shows as they appear.

Thank you, Lee and Common Craft, for providing such a useful resource for us!

Posted in: blog , commoncraft , plainenglish , podcasting , video

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Exclusive: 23 minutes of hands-on with the Lenovo and Aigo Mobile Internet Devices (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

OK, so I’m a couple days late, and I know I’ve been teasing you with photos and video “appetizers“, but I hope the quality/content of these videos makes up for it. While I was in Shanghai, China last week for the Spring 2008 Intel Developer Forum, I stayed a few extra days to work with the Intel Software Network China team, with the hope that I might be able to score some hands-on time with some of the Mobile Internet Devices that were shown for the first time at IDF.

There are only about 20 MIDs in the world today, all prototypes, and they were pretty much all at IDF. As you can imagine, access to them is jealously guarded, and they were pretty busy being shown off, participating in photo shoots, etc. My access to them got postponed, rescheduled, and moved around a lot, until one afternoon, we got the call. “You can come play with the MIDs if you can be here by 5:30pm.” It was 5:00pm, and Welles and I jumped in a taxi right away, headed for the Intel Software group’s Mobility Enabling Lab. I didn’t have time to go back and get my “big boy” professional video gear, so these videos were shot on my pocket Aiptek Go-HD camera, secured by a GorillaPod. I think they turned out pretty well.

Big disclaimer: the Linux-based software for both the Lenovo and Aigo devices I used is NOT final - there are some features that aren’t implemented, and performance optimizations that haven’t occurred. This is NOT how they’re going to be when they’re released commercially. There are crashes, slowness, and missing features in these videos. Think of this as a preview of the foundations of the software - what it’s capable of in general. Then squint your eyes a little and imagine the final version, a little more polished, sitting happily in your pocket.

First up, here’s a 13 minute video of the Lenovo Ideapad U8 Mobile Internet Device (MID). It’s one of the more unique hardware designs, with it’s flared end, special limited edition Beijing 2008 Olympic color scheme, and hardware number pad, for T9 text entry. In the video, I take a detailed look at the hardware (Intel Atom processor, two cameras - the rear one is 2.0 megapixels, SD slot, GPS, USB ports, etc.), and spend some time poking around with the software/user interface:

You can download the high quality (640×360) MP4 version here - the file is about 153 MB. You can also embed/share the video on your own blog or site by grabbing the Show Player code from the video’s page on blip.tv or by clicking “Embed” in the show player above.

Next up is 10 minutes of video with the MID from Aigo. I cover pretty much the same aspects of this device in the video as I did with the Lenovo Ideapad - hardware (sliding QWERTY keyboard, two cameras - the rear one is 3.0 megapixels, MicroSD slot, USB ports, “Smart Key”, etc.) and software and user interface. The Aigo device looks very similar to the Gigabyte MID, which has been floating around, making appearances. So much so that I suspect they’re manufactured by the same OEM, but I didn’t get any concrete information on this, so I’m just speculating. Here’s the video:

You can download the high quality (640×360) MP4 version of this video (117 MB) here, and get the embed code to share the video on your own site/blog on the video’s page on blip.tv, or by clicking “Embed” in the show player above.

Now that you’ve seen the videos, I hope some of your questions have been answered. And, no doubt, you have new questions. I’ll do my very best to get answers for you, so post your thoughts and questions in the comments below. Thanks for being patient while I got these videos ready. I have a TON more video content that I shot at IDF, and that will be coming out as it gets processed/edited. But this is the juicy stuff, so enjoy!

Posted in: blog , devices , exclusive , handson , hardware , intel , internet , labs , linux , mid , mobile , shanghai , software , video

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Take Me The Way I Am (All Things Chill (Special*Dark)) by Spec

You Tube link here. Taken from a recent tweet:

Favorite song (and way to say I love you) of right now: Ingrid Michaelson - Take me the way I am

Apparently, it’s been featured on an Old Navy commercial just like Lights - February Air… which only makes ME WANT TO BUY EVERYTHING FROM OLD NAVY. lol jokes. But honestly, if I want to support a marketing department do I support the store in which they are advertising for… or do I just send a letter of acknowledgment without sounding like a fanboy? lol.

Why is Old Navy doing what they’re doing? Because brands like Zara and H&M have been pushing affordable clothing - competitive to Old Navy - with amazing efficacy and a fashion-forward vibe. If you’ve seen the commercials made by Old Navy recently (it’s on their website -its redesign is funky too), they’re hip, stylish and chill - a far cry from FAMILY FLEECES and that weird 50’s color scheme. I don’t miss those one bit. ONE BIT.

Half-assed analysis aside, I think that they’re simply surfing the Internet looking for cutesy sounding girls with really indie sounds to build a commercial off of. Hee hee. Hey, it’s a pretty good idea! Haha.

It’s cheesy, but it’s got my attention!

~Spec

Posted in: music culture , streaming conciousness , video

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An Appetizer: Video of the Lenovo and Aigo MIDs at Intel Shanghai (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

I’m working on the video I shot while I was at the Mobility Software Lab at Intel Shanghai yesterday, getting some face time with the Lenovo and Aigo Mobile Internet Devices. I posted the photos late last night (thank you all for the comments!), and ever since then, you’ve all been chomping at the bit to see the videos. I have good news and bad news…

The good news is, I just posted an “appetizer” video, with a quick look at the MID hardware, comparisons to the Fujitsu and Samsung UMPCs (and my iPhone), and a glimpse of the lab. It’s about 2.5 minutes long, and you can watch it right here:

The bad news? The really detailed videos I shot of the UI and applications on both devices are too long to go up on YouTube (which has a 10 minute limit). I don’t want to cut anything out of the videos - I want you to see everything I saw. And I’d really like to have higher quality for the videos than what YouTube allows. But since my video service of choice, Blip.tv, is blocked in China, I can’t upload the videos until I get home. My flight leaves in about 18 hours. It won’t be long!In the mean time, please accept my apologies, and this “appetizer” video as a token of my love, along with the promise that the real “meat” - the UI video you’ve been waiting for - is coming soon. Over 20 minutes of it. And it will look better than YouTube.

Thanks for being patient!

Posted in: aigo , blog , device , hardware , intel , internet , lab , lenovo , mid , mobile , shanghai , video

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Bonus Video: My First Hands-On with a MID (Mobile Internet Device) (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

A few days before IDF, I met Holly from Intel via an email thread on who was going to Shanghai to blog, etc. She let me know that there was going to be a MID (Mobile Internet Device) photoshoot at some point, and invited me to come, shoot video, and check it out. Well, it turned out that the photoshoot took place at 8 PM the first night after IDF started, and didn’t finish until 8 AM the next morning. These devices are pretty much the only ones in the world right now, and they were needed for the keynote addresses both days of IDF. So the middle of the night was the only time they were available for a photoshoot. I passed.

But! On Day 2 of IDF, Holly came by the Upload Lounge with one of the MIDs - a unit from Gigabyte. She was supposed to do some “man on the street” video, showing people in Shanghai the MID, and asking them to show what they had in their pockets. But her video crew wasn’t available for some reason. SInce I was there with all my gear, and had time before the next session, I happily accompanied her out onto the streets of Shanghai (with Helen, our translator) to do the man on the street video.

But before we hit the streets, I shot this short clip with my Apitek Go-HD, to commemorate my first ever hands-on experience with a real, live MID. Here’s the video - about a minute and a half, not long enough to go into any depth. But it should be enough to give you a glimpse of what they’re like to actually use.

Holly is hard core - she was up all night long for the photoshoot, and still came around to do this. I would have chickened out and hidden in my soft warm bed for a few hours. Hats off to you, Holly! Hope you got some rest! And thank you for letting me touch the MID!

Posted in: blog , china , developer , device , idf , intel , internet , mid , mobile , shanghai , video

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Dell Responds to MacBook Air (Martin Gordon's Blog (cptncelchu)) by Martin

Found on Hell Yeah Bitch, "Dell Responds to the MacBook Air".

Technorati Tags: Apple, MacBook Air, commercial, funny, video

Posted in: apple , funny , macbook air , video , youtube

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Blogging is for Lovers - 1980’s Billy Ocean (All Things Chill (Special*Dark)) by Spec

I have the greatest yearning to sing this song in public. Karaoke perhaps (huh babers, huh)?!?!? Billy Ocean - Suddenly via Youtube. There’s even a Ne-Yo cover hereif you youngins can’t stand VHS to DIGITAL conversions. Hee hee.

Don’t forget to bring your lighters for encores!