2013-05-16
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This is a pretty good example of the flip-flop: the original image (“posted 10 months ago with 18,237 notes”) gets printed out, annotated (apparently by a twelve year old) and then gets a new lease of life on Tumblr. (via stml)
2013-05-14
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What if pixels weren’t necessarily supposed to look like little squares and sit in the so-called “right order”? What if what we call “real” or “true” images were not the only way the World around us can be represented? What if photographic data was just… data? What if it could be reinterpreted?
Free on the App Store. Images from Fast Co Design, via George Oates.
2013-05-09
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jomc:
jwherrman: This is the actual cover page of the NSA’s internal Google guidebook pic.twitter.com/IIWER6qi34 (via Twitter / jwherrman: This is the actual cover page …)
2013-05-08
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Battlefield 4 Uses New AMD Bird Rendering Technology: PecksFX at Play4Real.
Yes, AAA games studios are now spending their time worrying about rendering birds, and no, this isn’t an Onion article.
2013-04-30
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2013-04-26
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Gawker: “Plastic Surgery Blamed for Making All Miss Daegu Contestants Look Alike.”
Kotaku: “The assumption is now that the contestants wore their make-up in a similar style and, more likely, the same person Photoshopped the contestants. That would explain why all their smiles and faces are incredibly similar.”
2013-03-27
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2013-03-20
Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal
From the newspaper Federal Computer Week:
In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years.
Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the agency keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts, sources told FCW.
via infoneer-pulse, notational
