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The CDM43 will certainly be a boon to (very wealthy) gamers, but it would also make an amazing development box, research machine, or solve that problem of really obnoxious Excel screens!

With a native resolution of 2880 x 900 resolution and up to 68.7 billion colors, this monitor will make any gamer geek the envy of all who are blessed to gaze upon it!

 
Gaming on it - that’s what I’m talking about…

Here’s a comparison of what you would see on a monitor with other, less fortunate screen ratios

At the meager cost of $6499, I’m thinking I’ll pick up three of ‘em!
<hollering> HONEY… YOU KNOW THAT MONITOR I’VE BEEN SAYING I WANT TO PICK UP?

- More Details at OstendoTech.com -

Tags: Gadgets, Current Events, Multimedia, Reference, Just Cool, Art / Visual, Geek Stuff, Gaming, Video Gaming, General by Jai
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As you may know, YouTube is an easy place to pick up just about any song you could possibly want. The problem, of course, is how to get the SONG out of the VIDEO?

That’s where Dirpy Studio comes in (See? Inexplicable name!). It’s a web site that lets you to search for, then download, the video or music of any YouTube video!

(You don’t even need to register)

 
The search box has a very fast suggestion engine - I actually found it easier to use than the native YouTube search!

When you search, Dirpy, of course, gives you a selection of options that match your search.

When you choose one of the results, you’re presented with the screen shown here to tweak any options you want, or just click [Download] to use the defaults. Note that at the bottom, you also have options for downloading the video itself rather than just the music.

- Dirpy Studio -

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Look at the pics below - what’s interesting about them?

If you said "There’s nobody in them," you were right.

These are just a couple of the 3D reality paintings done by David Jon Kassan.

Though the original article on CoachDesigner.com focuses on this aspect of the artist’s work, he does others that involve things like peeling paint (that isn’t), and pencil drawings.

See more after the jump.

 
No, seriously, there’s nobody there!

Hey, there’s nobody looking at you in this picture!

- Original Article on CoachDesigner -

- David Kassan’s web site -

Tags: Multimedia, Collections, Reference, Weird, Virtual, Links, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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POTRTP: Picture Of The Random Time Period

Enjoy!

Someone’s going to make a KILLING on ebay!

- Found Here -

Tags: Collections, Picture Of The RTP, Reference, Humor, Multimedia, Virtual, Weird, General by Jai
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Yes, NORAD really is involved! Even more surprising, they’ve been involved since 1955!

It started by a mistaken phone number in a local newspaper - instead of the Sears "Santa" phone, they accidentally printed the number to a top-secret, early warning attack line in Norad!

Air Force Kernal Shoup reacted by assigning an Airman to "be" Santa Claus, and the project has been growing ever  since; in 2008, 1275 people and several tech companies (including Google) were involved!

Here’s an overview of the page showing Santa’s current location, the places he’s already visited (marked by the presents),  and his next stop.

Using standard Google maps controls, you can zoom in as far as you want, switch to map view, etc. If you click on the "present" icons, a picture representing that city will display.

Clicking on one of the cam images will load a you-tube video of a computer-rendered Santa flying with his reindeer flying around that area.

- www.NoradSanta.org -

- Full Story on CNN -

Tags: Virtual, Current Events, Multimedia, Reference, Just Cool, Net Life, Software, Cool Sites, Life Tips, General by Jai
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[This site was pointed out by reader Jim Neidert - Thanks, Jim - AWESOME site!]

Nuseum.org is a new museum in DC that contrasts the reporting of events by the news media with the effect the media has on the democratic process and lifestyle.

One of the cooler projects they’re running is a map of newspapers from countries all over the world with links to PDF images of that day’s front page! The images are very cool, but they DO NOT provide archival of these pages, so if you want TODAY’S page, you gotta get it today!

The app zoomed in on Oklahoma - If you hover over one of the dots, the front page of that newspaper displays on the right

This is a close-up of the paper shown in the previous picture - it’s not readable, but it’s only the preview…

If you CLICK on the dot (instead of just hovering), a new browser window opens and loads a downloadable (and savable) PDF of the page. This image is from the very top, left corner of the picture above (and you CAN get CLOSER than this)

To reinforce that point, this is a close-up of some of the text on that page - again, it CAN get closer than this, but I had to fit the image in 450 pixels of width!

- Front News Pages from Everywhere! -

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October, 1938 - The War of the Worlds radio broadcast caused nationwide panic reporting on a martian invasion as if it was actually occurring.

It’s one of the most studied mass histeria incidents in history with interest from the military, to psychologists, to conspiracy theorists.

I mentioned this broadcast in the “Dead Meat” (Zombie) post and thought that my readers might be interested in that original experience.

So, offered directly by The Mercury Theatre, The War of the Worlds (and many other great) Radio Broadcast(s)!

The now-familiar three-legged martian vehicles as envisioned early on

War of the Worlds was written by H.G. Wells, the radio broadcast was done by Orson Welles

- The Mercury Theatre -

Tags: Collections, Scary, Retro, Reference, Multimedia, Weird, Geek Stuff, Cool Sites, Links, Virtual, General by Jai
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Personas is a neat web app that has you enter your name (or presumably any two words, since it accepted “Zombie Lips” without hesitation), and returns a ColorBar that represents what the internet has to say about you.

The app searches for references and then adds colors to the ColorBar for each associated category it locates, sized by ratio to the other categories.

When it’s done, you have a nice, tidy, and visually attractive thumbprint of your onlline life!

The interface is very simple, it asks only the one question…

Then things get chaotic for a bit (this is all animated as it builds my colorbar)

And apparently, this is the ColorBar version of me, all annotated and colorized!

- Personas -

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Megapixel is a an in-browser game using the UnityWeb driver (a lot of the good games are starting to go that route - it’s kind of an alternative to flash that’s designed for gaming).

The game puts you in a black room with colored pixel-enemies attacking. You fight back with cool pixel-weapons (seems appropriate, right?), and it doesn’t take long for the fighting to get frantic (but it definitely stays fun and visually interesting!)

If you like cool, brainless games, check out MegaPixel!

The bizarre graphics start right at the beginning (and add a LOT to the FEEL of the game!)

Shooting down at a generic attacker with the standard weapon

Using the more powerful green “laser” weapon against an early boss coming down from above

- MegaPixel -

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[Link and title association suggested by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous]

Those words are a quote from Yoda, originally. More recently, some very similar things have been said by a group of researchers who have proven that it’s true in the literal sense!

The researchers used very sensitive cameras to get visible light pictures at various times during the day. It looks like our daily cycles affect the levels of light given off.

Follow the links for more detail!

Some of the photographs taken with the special cameras and a bit more detailed information.

- Original Article from LiveScience -

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