Just a few months ago, we go our first look at the 3D photo-app Seene. But now, instead of just turning photos into a parallax party trick, the app's next update will let you make full fledged, textured 3D models. And judging from the preview below, it looks positively awesome.
I love the feeling of the blog posts at the Old Reader website.
These guys love RSS, and their ego is involved, and that's a good thing. I wish all vendors of RSS-related products had this feeling. But most of them are either quiet, or feel they are the New Google Reader, that is, the 800-pound gorilla that dominates the market. Or at least they respond that way when asked to work with others.
RSS has a new mission, to not only be a "feed reader" but to be the backbone of the news system of the future. Twitter took on that role for a number of years, and hasn't done much with it. There was nothing RSS could do as long as Google dominated. But that era is over, has been for almost a year.
I took a first tentative step toward moving RSS into that future when I switched over the format of Scripting News feed from titled-only posts, to a mixture of titled and title-less posts.
Now we have a way of modeling the essay-style site that Google Reader insisted on (and is implemented by WordPress and Tumblr and others), and the linkblog format that Twitter has popularized (which is a descendant of the original blog format, and del.icio.us, and other link management sites), and the hybrid feed that has both, like the new Scripting News feed.
If you're a developer of feed-reading tools, start to think about what you can do with the new linkblog format. If you want some ideas, have a look at my rivers, they're in the Rivers menu at the top of every page on my blog. Then have a look at Twitter. And then get creative!
RSS is the future, but if it's to work, we have to all think of ourselves as co-developers of the platform. No one dominates, everyone listens.
If you see your name on my blog, you'll know I'm listening. But first you have to say something.
by @juan_domenech
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Ruins Your Zombie Fantasies Forever - Video
This is everything my homie been saying for forever
Why zombies are wack
Jacque Fresco, from Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Via universalequalityisinevitablepoeticdarkbeauty:
who is this brilliant man
s-c-i-guy:His name is Jacque Fresco. He’s a futurist and social engineer. He lectures his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, and the role of science in society, while being entirely self-taught.He’s also the founder of the Venus Project, an organization that advocates a resource-based economy. The project combines Fresco’s versions of sustainable development, natural resource management, energy efficiency, and advanced automation in a global socioeconomic system based on social cooperation and scientific methodology.
As you can tell he’s a pretty badass dude.
Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.
how the hell do you bend and braid a tree
Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.
Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees.As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.
On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.
But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:
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I admire that level of spite. “Teacher told us a tree would die if flipped upside down? Chet go steal an excavator, we are going to show that motherfucker what’s what.”
When you need the object of a picture, but not the background, it can be a pain to separate them, particularly if you don't have Photoshop. As long as you don't need pixel-perfect control, Background Burner can do the grunt work for you in a jiffy.
Tull also mentioned that the Warcraft movie will have a more linear plot than, say Moon but that it's still a Duncan Jones movie. (If you've seen Moon you'll get what that means. If not, go see Moon.) Besides the Warcraft movie, there are details on what else Legendary is working on, so head on over if you're in the mood for movie details.We wanted to make sure that we got that right, but there are some sequences and some things that Duncan Jones has done that are truly on the cutting edge. You want to have plenty of time to make sure that we dial those in. So by the time they get home and set up, it'll be a little less than two years. It'll be about 20 months but we really want to take our time and get this right because the technology that's employed really is some next generation stuff.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard
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