March, 14, 2005 archives

someone needs to beat the author of this article about peerflix with an explanation of the first-sale doctrine. the really dumb quote: “Selling a used DVD outright can be legally iffy, as it gets into complex copyright issues….”

the examples from this paper about colorization using optimization (via wes felter) are really impressive. just dab some color on a black-and-white picture, feed it (and the original b&w image) through this process, and get colorized pictures out the other end. i wonder how long this will take to find its way into photoshop and the like.

the video clips are even more impressive.

these monkey lighters from some japanese company look pretty nifty. and imagine the lines they could act as the punchline to if you were still allowed to smoke in bars.

the arrangement of the monkeys in this picture just struck me as odd. they look like they’re up to something nefarious.

i happened to stumble across apple’s pages about world of warcraft, and the letters written as game characters are really funny. but you probably need to have played the game to get it.

glenn fleishmann wrote up his impression of a sxsw with bram cohen and then was called out by some of his readers for commenting on behavior of bram’s that may be attributable to asperger’s syndrome.

i wasn’t at the session (or at sxsw at all), but it seems to me that the person glenn really missed complaining about was the person interviewing bram. didn’t she talk to bram before the session to find out what he did and did not want to talk about? couldn’t she find a way to move from an audience question to a related topic that bram was interested in talking about?

and if you want some evidence that bram can talk well on the aspects of bittorrent that interest him, check out the talk he gave at stanford.