These are my links for August 14th through September 4th:

• Downloads (2010-2011 Fall) | CS 193P iPhone Application Development –
• UIPickerView – Creating a simple picker view | iPhone SDK Articles –
• Steve Jobs: Jerry Pournelle Reflects –
• Dreamstime – Stock Photography
• Fotolia.com – Royalty Free Stock Photos
• Evernote software company plans new studio, aggressive hiring in Austin –
• Five Ways to Speed Up Lightroom – O’Reilly Digital Media Blog –
• Does the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli Matter to Church/State Separation? –
• Python documentation –
• Why most people don’t finish video games –
• Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief | Stanford Center for Internet and Society –
• Violet Crown Trail | Hill Country Conservancy –
• South Austin Medical Clinic –
• World War II in Photos – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic –
• Understanding & Using Ansel Adam’s Zone System –

These are my links for May 10th through June 4th:

• AOJ Outdoors Tip – Eliminate Yellow Jackets With This Non-Toxic Homemade Yellow Jacket Trap! –
• Regrets of the Dying –
• The "How-to" for making an Arduino controlled smoker –
• Zuckerberg goes on a diet: Only meat he eats is what he kills – San Jose Mercury News – They all want to learn how to do it; they want to come in and watch us cut it up, because I think these days people who have the means to kill their own food want to see exactly what they're eating
• China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work –
• Confirmed: Google Wallet NFC payment system launches tomorrow, retail partners in tow –
• Banks launch clearXchange transfer system to rival PayPal –
• The Highly Sensitive Person –
• Roll a D6 – This is a spoof music video of ;Like a G6" by Far East Movement.
• Eternal Earth-Bound Pets –
• Everyday, No Days Off – Gun Blog –
• Linux Commando: How to disable SSH host key checking –
• KnifeKits.com Designer Knife Kits – Knife Making Supplies – Sheath and Holster Making Supplies –
• Grinder – getting started –
• Far Horizon Traders Home Page –

These are my links for December 23rd through January 4th:

• Best Buy Masters Computer Science & Information Technology | Ratings & Rankings | GetEducated.com –
• CSU CS Online Masters Degree –
• Portalarium – Game Developer in Austin (Richard Garriott has joined this team)
• Car2Go Sweeps Austin Off Its Wheels – Car2Go to hopefully expand its area, and definitely expand its fleet with new cars
• bunnie’s blog –
• TF2 Backpack Examiner – Blueprints –
• Musican killed in home burglary attempt, authorities say –
• James Jean | Home –
• Chumby Spare Parts at Sparkfun –
• The animal world has its junkies too – Animals that get high
• MakerBot Industries – Robots That Make Things. –
• chumby sphere forum –
• Chumby hacker board beta – ChumbyWiki –
• chumby hacker board wiki –
• Texas State History IMAX Theatre –

(A Minecraft music video)

whoooooosh…

HDR video accomplished with two Canon 5d Mark II’s and alot of video editing.

(I think when the Mk III’s come out, I will have a hard time resisting)

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II’s from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

www.sovietmontage.com

EDIT: Thanks for the comments! Please LIKE the video to bookmark it–and so you can see the upcoming film!

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This video highlights several clips we’ve made using our new High Dynamic Range (HDR) process. Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above.

HDR Video provides filmmakers with many exciting new opportunities. Not only can HDR video create interesting effects, it can also allow for even exposure where artificial lighting is unavailable or impractical. For example, when a subject is backlit, one camera could be set to properly expose the subject, the other the sky, resulting in video with perfect exposure throughout.

We will continue to develop and improve the HDR video process for better results and efficiency. For more information, check out our website www.sovietmontage.com.

Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Opus 40, Number 9
Performed by Kevin MacLeod
Licensed Under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″

These are my links for August 22nd through August 24th:

• Your First iOS Application –
• digitalphotographyconnection.com –
• PACMAN BIG SET of stickers for laptops macbooks macbook by apjam –
• U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients –

Words cannot describe this escalating Rube Goldberg machine, just watch

ubiquitous super mario theme

tetris theme

zelda theme

and a little more… range

Yes, this is quickly developing into a Youtube meme, but that is because it is good.

A 3-year-old girl explains Star Wars succinctly, in less than 2 minutes:

Technology from the University of Wisconsin to “print” images in the air with a cascade of water droplets. They call it AquaScript.

The Youtube comments suggested exactly what iw as thinking… that this is a really neat technology, but the true genius of it would come out if they had a matrix of valves (instead of a line) and thereby created 3-D images.

I’ve had this video favorited on YouTube for many a month and I love to go back and watch it from time to time. This is one of the least well-known gems from one of the least well-known bands of the decades that my life has spanned.

Ghostalk by Cabaret Voltaire:

The hell if I ever used AOL, but man I sometimes forget how much has changed.

I miss BBS’s though.

In soviet russia, the monitor shoots you!

Leave it to the Japanese to think of the perfect cat. the problem is, cats are fun because of the mostly weird things they do, not entirely from the old purr and pet. Still, at least there’s no litter to clean with this one.

Long before CGI there was the wonderful world of stop-motion filmmaking. What better way to recreate a computer game!

Yes, the entire Internet. I don’t know how you are reading this article, but anyways:

Finally a clear video with some extended gameplay:

The Fallout 3 teaser trailer has been released, along with a general release date announcement of Fall 2008.

Randall Munroe writes xkcd, one of the very few webcomics that I can truly laugh at, connect to, and that I never get tired of. (I love dangling prepositions!) He’s a very smart and insightful guy, and often interjects math and science into the strips, as well as purely philosophical ramblings. He gave a talk at MIT a few weeks ago.

Here is a link to some pictures from the talk.

And here are some videos of the event, including him being pelted with plastic balls (which is homage to one of his strips about the nature of becoming an adult.)

and you can find a few more by using this xkcd query to YouTube.

This video is of a 7 year old back in 1982 talking about programming on some local access show. He demonstrates coding BASIC on an Apple ][.

This strikes a chord with me, because around the exact same time, at around the same age, I went to a summer camp for budding computer nerds in the deserts of southern California. It was the same scenario too, we were kids learning BASIC on Apple ][. Our imaginations were fueled by shows like Whiz Kids and movies like WarGames. Not to mention the explosion of science fiction novels at the time. I still have the binder I used to map out my programs and keep printouts of them some 25 years ago.

I’ve never shaken that love of computers and programming, and I’m glad I got to grow up with it. Now that computers are ubiquitous, “hackers” aren’t such special snowflakes, but I still feel the nostalgia of when it was a budding science and I was still a bud myself.

Man, this website really is turning into a blog. So be it.