a swedish campground and some other links

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where the apple key symbol comes from. So they say. Nice story.

amazing.

not bad

if George does Karls job

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Nothing is ridicolously enough that you wouldn’t find people repeating it .

What’s next? “Intelligent Math” ?

drudge

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Matt Drudge has a huge audience. Somebody somewhere misrouted a video signal or was unable to operate a switcher correctly.
People found quickly that there is not only an “X” over the image but also a message saying “Transition begins after 5 frames of black”.
Which is why the text below his face is not that readible.
Still, the white is concerned (according to Drudge and some ‘source’).
Maybe this was an ‘counter image’ attempt. After all George
not being able to walk away from a press conference was a very
telling one.

exit strategy

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over here

wonders of wikipedia

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3 on a match
almost should start smoking because of stories like this.

free Avid

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Who would have thought that you would get free Avid software one day.

convert movie for a Motorola Razr under OS X 10.4

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You probably need Quicktime Pro.
You might want to try a shorter piece first.
Open the movie and select export.

3G parameters:

Video options:

{looks not so good}

Audio options:

{sounds even worse}

Not pretty, but it works. YMMV

Journalists like Seth Lubove

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Forbes writes about Digital Domain

Yes, that’s the company that did the effects for Titanic. Last century.
Maybe the company is stuck there, I am not sure. The Author of the article certainly is:


Competition for assignments is cutthroat, and increasingly powerful off-the-shelf software from Autodesk, Microsoft, Apple and others lets anyone with a workstation concoct the same stunts as the big guys.

Microsoft? Maybe I am missing something here, but Microsofts involvement in the visual effects industry is as important as in lets say the poultry industry: Office, and that’s it.
Autodesk: yes. Apple: yes. But Microsoft? They sold Softimage to Avid in 1998. Have they bought it back? Or is the author just stuck in the last century like Cameron or DD?

genes and history

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This abstract drifts between fact and interpretation.

microsoft classifies Sony Audio CDs as malware

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The rather busy people over at the Microsoft Anti-Malware Technology Team have added the Sony DRM rootkit added to their list.

No matter how Sony got into this mess, they had weeks to get out of it better. Now I am afraid it’s just to late.