Listing all posts for June 2009

Tuesday, June 30th 2009

Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization (via CDM): This is just an incredible presentation. Camera movement is one of the things that sets apart low budget from ‘professional’ filmmaking and it’s good to see the potential for yet another gap narrowing. Indiependents sometimes waste so much time and resources on it, it’ll be nice to let computers handle it so we can do some actual filmmaking.

Monday, June 29th 2009

Friday, June 26th 2009

Sunday, June 21st 2009

Saturday, June 20th 2009

Friday, June 19th 2009

Monday, June 15th 2009

The rather interesting blog The Map Scroll has a post on Why We’re Fucked, that is, the world’s humungously uneven Balances of Trade.

You already know the United States owes a lot, China is owed a lot, however the true story lies here, in a per-capita account balance map. Americans and Australians, still not surprisingly, consume a real lot more than they can afford, but who else? Iceland, also not surprisingly is a black hole of deficit, but then come Greece, Spain and good old Portugal. Whaa? Us Portuguese spending far more than we can? No way, I’m sure we earned all those German automobiles with hard labour!