Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing ACM Transactions on Graphics by Dr. Shai Avidan and Dr. Ariel Shamir, Volume 26, Number 3, SIGGRAPH 2007 (via Dr. Ariel Shamir Home Page.)
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Chinese see military dependence on computers as weakness - International Herald Tribune
A group of hackers believed to be linked to the Chinese military had infiltrated these computers and the spyware was sending data back to China, the report said, citing an investigation by German intelligence services.
What France can do in Iraq - International Herald Tribune
There can be no lasting military solution to this crisis. The solution has to be political. The Iraqis themselves, including those most hostile to the American presence, may not want the foreign troops to leave immediately, but a withdrawal must nevertheless be planned, in consultation with the Iraqi authorities. At the same time, a broad-based government of national unity must be established.
Jeremy Blake was one of my favorite artists and I always felt I understood his work as if it were my own. I’m deeply saddened by this news.
“Jeremy Blake, an up-and-coming artist who sought to bridge the worlds of painting and film in lush, color-saturated, hallucinatory digital video works, has died, the New York City Police said yesterday. He was 35 and lived in the East Village in Manhattan.” (via Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies - New York Times)
With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad,
Anyone Can Get In on the Joke
Eric Nakagawa was between jobs last January when he came across a funny picture while surfing the Web: a high-strung cat with an open maw making a garbled request for a cheeseburger.
“ Digital is so friendly for me and so important for the scenes, a way of working without so much downtime. It’s impossible to go back.
Boing Boing: David Lynch: “The world has moved on” from film.
“ Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Burning Man: What is Burning Man?: 10 Principles
The iPhone Is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again
Facebook, Netvibes and Meebo all launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites this week, and all three of them are very nice. But wasn’t one of the promises of the iPhone that it offered “a real web browser?” If that’s so, why all the iPhone-optimized sites? And why are these sites being optimized for the iPhone specifically and not just “mobile optimized?”
Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie ’08 - New York Times
I’ve used the real iMovie to edit my Times videos for three years now. The results are perfectly convincing as professional video blog work. But the new version is totally unusable for that purpose. It’s unusable, in fact, for anyone doing professional work that requires any degree of precision.
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch - New York Times
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.
