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The Corruptibles

The EFF proudly presents:

The Corruptibles
Hollywood wants Congress to give it new super powers over your TV, radio, and computer. Find out more in this animation, and write to stop the Broadcast Flag, Audio Flag, and Analog Hole laws.

If the EFF server is too slow, you can also download the files directly from this archive.org server:
The_Corruptibles-xvid.avi
The_Corruptibles.m4v
The_Corruptibles.swf

 

Selfmade HD video

Today I shot a couple of sequences of wakeboarders on the central lake in Almere and though, that I should be able to create a short high definition video from those images, since the original resolution of the Nikon D200 is 3872×2592 pixel.

Nikon D200 sequences

I used a Photoshop action to crop and resize the images to 1280×720 pixel, which is the 720p resolution, a common HD format. With Quicktime Pro I imported all 69 images and created a movie with 6 frames per second (the D200 probably shot +/- 5 frames per second), resulting in a clip of 11 seconds. The Wide Time effect of Apple’s Motion software was used to create transitions between the individual frames.

Quicktime h.264 version (28MB) – click on the image to start the movie:
HD wakeboarders (28MB)
click here to download
click here to download the divx version (5.52MB)

 

Flock goes beta

Flock has reached version 0.7 and is now officially a beta-release. Flock is a new browser for the web 2.0 generation and integrates services like flickr and delicious directly into the web client. You can also read rss newsfeeds and publish to you own blog. Flock is built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies, which are also being used by Firefox.
Flock screenshot
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Almere city architecture – part II

Tonight I went out again to take more pictures of the new center.

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Equipment: Nikon D200 + Nikkor AF-S DX 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED

1,5,8: Side By Side (architect: Firts van Dongen)
4: Block 5
2,3,6: Block 4 (architect: Gigon & Guyer)
7: Block 2 (architect: David Chipperfield)

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An interview with Peter of the famous BitTorrent tracker site

Last week the Chaosradio International podcast has published an interview with Peter, who is one of the three administrators of The Pirate Bay system which has become the biggest BitTorrent tracker system in the world effectively generating half of Swedens Internet traffic. The system was recently raided by Swedish police after the US government complained about the site to the swedish government.

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Almere city architecture

Finally we had a nice sunset and blue sky, so I went out with my new Nikon and took some images of the modern architecture in the city.

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1. Silverline (architects: Claus & Kaan)
2. Media Markt
3. Urban Entertainment Center (architect: William Alsop)
4. The Wave (architect: René van Zuuk)
5. Silverline and Side By Side (architect: Frits van Dongen)
6. The Wave

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