The idea is to not just squeeze or crop the image as it is resized to fit (say) a browser window, but to remove less informative parts so that important objects and people remain. the browser compresses the image and the designer has made Y a preferred seam. We will tend to see X and Z, and likely never think of Y. This is a form of manipulation more subtle than just removing Y, since the designer can now truthfully say that the photo is authentic
Month: August 2007
Homeownership vastly overrated
In summary, the benefits to society of homeownership are smaller than typically advertised, and they are inconsistent.
i am not surprised at all. this is the biggest scam of all.
Artisanal economy
When most things that you want to buy – especially for someone else – seem to cost nothing and are all the same and made in China – what are you going to do? etsy.
Wolbachia
Wolbachia may be the most prolific parasite in the world—a “pandemic”. This parasite has implanted itself inside the cells of 70% of the world’s invertebrates, coevolving with them.
Voters fear death
a fear of our own mortality guides many of our political choices without our ever realizing it.
time for SENS
Craigslist Rocks!
As the seller, I didn’t have to deal with online scammers, with UPS or USMail to ship the thing, pay PayPal fees or do anything really but wait for someone to come by with money. I’m telling you right now, eBay is in serious trouble.
Search & Send
clunky. plus why would they hedge like that?
A Picture of 70
Art De Vany why the paleo diet works
Ganeti
an open source virtual server management software built on top of Xen and other open source software. Ganeti started as a small project in Google’s Zurich office. We’ve been using it internally for a while, and now we’re excited to share it more broadly under GPLv2. Here at Google, we’ve used Ganeti in the internal corporate environment to facilitate cluster management of virtual servers in commodity hardware, increasing the efficiency of hardware usage and saving space, power and cooling. Ganeti also provides fast and simple recovery after physical failures.
ha. i had no idea we are releasing this. another thing after mapreduce for yahoo to bring their technology into this millennium.
Greg Stein Fund
You guys are amazing! We’ve raised more than $2500 for Greg well surpassing the initial goal of $2k.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 