technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Archive for August, 2007
Funny email…
Aug 31st
A friend (hi Anne!) sent me an email earlier that I had to share.
Subject: Virus Alert!!!
There is a dangerous virus being passed around electronically, orally, and by hand. This virus is called Worm-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive W.O.R.K. from any of your colleagues, your boss, or anyone else via any means DO NOT TOUCH IT !!!
This virus will wipe out your private life completely.
If you should come into contact with W.O.R.K. put your jacket on and take two good friends to the nearest grocery store. Purchase the antidote known as Work-Isolating-Neutralizer-Extract (WINE) or Bothersome-Employer-Elimination-Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until More >
Content aware image resizing
Aug 27th
Two Israeli scientists, Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan, gave a presentation at SIGGRAPH the other day that demonstrates an inteligent way to resize images. Rather than just a dumb resampling at the new resolution based on the average of the pixels at the old, or a method based on finding edges, these guys have come up with a technique that analyses the content, generates 3D shapes from it, and resizes it, preserving the proportions of the important elements.
DIY sunroof for your car
Aug 21st
Sunroofs can be an expensive option on a new car, and retrofit ones are notoriously problematic, so this guy has come up with a solution which he’s selling on eBay for $24.95
You stick it on with the supplied double-sided sticky tape and from the outside looks real. The questions section is the best bit. One reader wants to know how the light gets through if there’s no hole cut in the roof. Others are asking if the sunroof leaks, and where are the switch and motor housed. Priceless!
New domain name impulse buy
Aug 19th
I was browsing the list of domain names for sale on eBay the other day and I came across this. e85fuelsupply.com was for sale with one $1 bid. It’s something that I’ll build a website around if I have time, and if not, I should be able to sell it on for a nice profit, as the name is topical. It cost me the sum total of $1.36 in the end, and the domain still has the best part of a year to run on it’s registration (worth $8 on it’s own)!
I think I might put together a Google Maps mashup site, where visitors More >
