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David Pogue reviews the Blackberry Storm

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008, by moose

State of the Art - BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression - NYTimes.com:
But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.
Even the title is pretty funny…

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The not-so-perfect Storm

Friday, November 21st, 2008, by moose

BlackBerry Storm review - Engadget:
Going into this review, we really wanted to love this phone. On paper it sounds like the perfect antidote to our gripes about the iPhone, and in some ways it lives up to those promises — but more often than not while using the Storm, we felt let down or frustrated. [...]

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Searching for images by dominant colors

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008, by moose

Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.:
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
Now this is a brilliant idea…
(Via kottke.org.)

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Google Android: some kind of psychedelic drug?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008, by moose

You may remember a post on this very blog a while ago, where Walt Mossberg earned the dubious honour of a “Spot the idiot” entry. Basically he was blasting the phone for the whole review, then concluding it was a good phone. Go figure.
Well, looks like maybe Google is shipping some powerful recreative drugs with [...]

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The uncanny valley has finally been crossed…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, by moose

… and it gives me the creeps.

(Via photoshelter .)

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GIS, meet WiFi

Friday, August 22nd, 2008, by moose

This is way cool…
Wi-Fi geography/analysis :

Follow the link and watch the animation showing the various visualisations… It’s really interesting to see our information flows patterns laid out like this.
The future is here.
(Via City of Sound.)

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The 3D magic of Star Wars episode 4: “I turn the dial”…

Monday, April 7th, 2008, by moose

Check out this amazing video on how the 3D computer animation of the Death Star attack simulation was done for Star Wars, Episode IV.
This is pretty amazing, especially the point where the guy explains how he can rotate the 3D models by turning dials on some sort of giant console. Also, animating one single frame [...]

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A Steampunk Mac mini, complete with keyboard an monitor

Monday, March 3rd, 2008, by moose

This is a truly beautiful mod, and one which probably required countless hours and huge skills.

(via Gizmodo.)

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