Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

Very interesting research into using still photographs to enhance a video of the same scene by increasing the resolution, enhance the dynamic range and exposure, and even object touch-up and removal.

It Is Over

I take back what I said, on Guitar Hero III, completing DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames on Expert with 100% notes hit isn’t impossible. But it is fucking hard.

“I Thought Europe Was a Country?”

When you have grown adults showing this amount of ignorance, all you can do is laugh.

You Get What You Pay For

Some seriously bad knockoffs of Pixar’s Ratatouille and Cars, called Ratatoing and The Little Cars. (Via MetaFilter.)

Kris Holm: Extreme Unicyclist

Kris Holm does stuff that is hard enough to on a real bike on his unicycle. Drops, gaps, trails, North Shore, you name it, he does it.

Slob Evolution

Dove Evolution Parody.

Will it Blend?

An iPhone is blended on YouTube to black powdery goodness.

Woman Gets Owned Trying To Buy Multiple iPhones

A woman buys a guys place in line for an iPhone for $800 with the intention of buying the entire stock at the AT&T store to sell on eBay. Then she is told there is a one phone per customer limit, hilarity ensues.

I hope this guy likes his G5

Because his isn’t going to be able to go back to his old G4.

I didn’t hear about this until today when this movie was released, but it seems that some guy at HelpMeGetAG5.com said that if he got enough donations for a new G5 PowerMac, he would blow up his old G4. Well, he did get enough money, and he did blow it up, an dhe has the video to prove it. The sites down now probably due to the sheer number of people trying to watch the video, so you can enjoy it here, free of charge. How nice of me.

Read More »