In the last three days I have received 3 mails from Colorbar, a “lively private club for colorful people”. The first one didn’t trigger my suspicion, since I am subscribed to some music-related mailing lists. The two next mails came for 2 @forret.com aliases of which I am certain they never subscribed to any list. So I took a closer look at the email. No contact details are given, no indication of where the email addresses came from, no possibility to unsubscribe, i.e. it’s a spam mail. To be even more specific: a belgian spam message.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2006
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Printing in larger sizes
I have a Canon 350D digital camera. At 8 megapixels, it’s in the semi-pro league, and allows me to make 293mm x 192mm (11.5″ x 7.7″) hi-quality prints. That’s slightly smaller than an A4 (or Letter) sheet. Imagine now I would want to print on an A0 format or 1189mm x 841mm (46.8″ x 33.1″). That’s 16 times as big (height x 4 and width x 4). I could take a ‘normal’ image and rescale it to that size, but what would that look like? For every 16 pixels of the new picture, 1 would be an original one, and the other 15 would have been guessed from that and the surrounding pixels. This process is called image interpolation and there are different algorithms to do this. Let me show what that looks like.
Interpolation algorithms
One of the more popular pages on this blog is the post about Richard and Katie: if his site reached 5.000.000 hits, she would allow him to have a threesome (pleasemakethiswork.com). It’s been three months now, so one wonders: did it work? Well … kind of.
Richard and Katie
The old URL now consists of a redirect page to www.richardandkatie.co.uk (NSFW). On this new site, we learn that the three-way action did take place, it took a full 45 minutes and they’re still editing it into a 20-minute video that will be available soon. The reinforcement they invited goes by the name of Holly, a dark-haired girl with an above-average cup-size.
The video will be put up on the site a.s.a.p its taking a few days due to editing – because believe me there are a couple of things that should be left to the imagination – for one my inability to perform during the first half hour… but more on that another day!!!
I have been looking for a way to write down tango steps since I began dancing. I experimented with drawing arrows, writing full text, abbreviations, inventing signs, … I’m not alone in this quest:
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And that is only when you take into account the feet. The Labanotation system (developed by professional dancers) has a graphical element for each movement of the legs and arms.
While this is probably one of the best systems around, it’s too complicated for us laymen dancers. So I decided to distill a base vocabulary for writing down tango steps: Tangotation.
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