Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.

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I’m ponding putting this on the office door to add some balance to my professional enthusiasm.

This poor penguin reminds me of Batman’s nemesis, The Penguin (from Batman Returns) who has seen better days…

Mon Feb 15

Here’s another jawdropping TED video from Blaise Agüera y Arcas who definitely knows how to reverse-engineer 3D spaces by using geo-tagged 2D pictures/movies. He has previously stunned the crowd with Seadragon and Photosynth technologies, which have been since then acquired by Microsoft.

In this presentation, Blaise is showcasing the technology to be experienced on Bing Maps. I’ve been too used to using Google Maps which might change when amazing projects like this become widely available. For now this won’t happen, however, since Street view is not supported in Firefox (and I won’t even start thinking that Chrome might work). ;-)

All I can say is: Praise to Blaise and his team!

This is probably the most exciting to leave the gates of Microsoft (pun intended) next to Project Natal presented by that guy wearing sunglasses indoors.

I guess Google should start cracking their brainpower and company acquisition resources…

Sat Jan 23

Doggie style.

[via kleinjinx, via tina-fashionista, via dancey-dance, via ad infinitum]

Sat Dec 19

Cookie Monster cookies. Programmers love recursive cookies. :-P

[via juliasegal]

Tue Nov 10

You can tell when a dog had a bad day - no bone lying burried close by and out of smokes.

Thanks to Toni for a great moment captured and shared.

Mon Sep 28

A pretty powerful algorithm for called Patchmatch will be a part of the new PhotoShop CS5.

This is pretty amazing although it will take some fun factor and the feeling of achievement out of photoshopping for most people.

If you’re into scientific papers or you’re just curious into theoretical background of this image manipulation magic - you can learn more in a paper presented at SIGGRAPH ‘09 titled PatchMatch, a Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing.

Thanks to Martin for this hint.

[via CS5ORG and Martin]