A remix of will.i.am’s Yes We Can video with John Boehner stepping up to provide the standard Republican contribution:
Builds nicely, and the end is the best part. Found it via this Frank Rich op-ed, [The Rage Is Not About Health Care](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html).I feel like I’ve been living under a rock, but apparently there is this comic book called Scott Pilgrim that is popular enough that it is being made into a movie with Michael Cera (here’s the trailer) and a video game. The basic plot:
Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to get by in this crazy world. He’s in a band. He’s lazy. He likes video games.
Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Seven! Evil! Ex! Boyfriends! Lucas has muscles! Todd plays bass with his psychic powers! The Twins are twins! Matthew Patel is an Indian guy! AND MORE!
Just got this e-mail, makes me happy:
Wow, Adobe is on fire. This isn’t quite as jaw-dropping as the content-aware fill thing from yesterday, but it’s in the ballpark: user-guided sound selection (Quicktime movie). It won’t sound too impressive to explain it, so go watch, but basically you can extract just the lyrics (for example) from a song (leaving all the instrumental stuff behind) by singing along.
Interesting insights into why we need to dream. Get good sleep!
Here’s a sneak peek of content-aware fill, coming to Photoshop. Might as well be magic!
I really want an iPod Touch or an iPad, but I really don’t want to be locked in Apple’s trunk. Maaaaybe what I want is an Enso zenPad, a $155 5" touchscreen Android tablet with WiFi and optional 3G. Nice price!
Mycelium, a simulation of fungal hyphae growth using images as food, must have a killer algorithm behind it, because the images it can render have more soul behind them than other tracing algorithms I’ve seen:
