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This impressive augmented reality demo from GE inserts computer-generated 3D objects into live video. First, watch the short video. Then, try it yourself. |
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Israeli musician “Kutiman” took a big pile of seemingly random YouTube video clips and used them as instruments in his own musical compositions. I could not stop listening to these. My favorites are tracks 2 and 3. His site is overloaded at the time of this post; for now you can see samples here, here, and here. |
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Can you be an awesome DJ using nothing but a web browser and your computer’s keyboard? Yes you can. |
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A curious programmer, inspired by Roger Asling’s evolution of the Mona Lisa, asks if the technique could be a good way to compress images. Also take a look at the nice online version of the image evolver he wrote, in which you can set your own target image. |
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Hilarious Livejournal diary done in the style of Rorschach from the Watchmen comic book series. |
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The Crisis of Credit, Visualized – An extremely well-produced video describing the credit crisis in simple terms. |
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instantwatcher.com – “Netflix for impatient people”. A remix of the Netflix site that is “about a quadrillion times easier to browse than Netflix’s own site”. |
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$timator: How much is your web site worth? |
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Cursebird. A real time feed of people swearing on Twitter. THANK YOU, INTERNET! |
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Leapfish. An interesting new meta-search engine with a clean interface. “It’s OK, you’re not cheating on Google.” |
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Twittersheep. “Enter your twitter username to see a tag cloud from the ‘bios’ of your twitter flock.” |
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PWN! YouTube. This is a great idea. You just type “pwn” in front of “youtube” in the URL, and voila; instant links for downloading and saving the videos. |
