Awwww…
September 4th, 2011
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Maps as childrens’ clothing
August 24th, 2011
I wonder if it says “you are here” on the clothes… it’d be like a pin or something.
via NOTCOT.com (thanks Nadya!)
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Extracting images from a PDF
July 12th, 2011Thanks to Stefaan Lippens for this snippet to extract images from a PDF:
Usage is very straightforward:
pdfimages -j foo.pdf bar
This will extract all images from foo.pdf and save them in JPEG format (option -j) to bar-000.jpg, bar-001.jpg, bar-002.jpg, etc.
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New Knitter features – plus UNDO
July 12th, 2011
With inspiration from some of my colleagues in Jerusalem, I’ve been chipping away at some small but important new changes to the Knitter map stitching tool (http://cartagen.org/maps/)
A few new features today:
- UNDO – I know i’ve said this would be a doozy, or impossible, but Shai helped me figure out a simple way to get a limited undo feature working. Now, when you select any image, you can undo any actions to it… until the last time you reloaded the whole page. Maybe soon we’ll store unlimited undo history, but this is a great start. Have fun undoing.
- KML – this one doesn’t completely work, but when you export you can now see some limited KML exported files.
small stuff:
- outlined images – sometimes you can’t see the background map because of all the images you’ve uploaded. Now you can set them to appear as just red outlines. Hopefully convenient
- arrow keys – For smaller and more controlled edits, you can now use the arrow keys to move images around.
- preserve rotation – if you’re scaling an image but don’t want to rotate at the same time, hold the shift key down to lock the rotation.
Have fun!
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Solution for when Git thinks everything has been modified
June 30th, 2011Steven Robbins figured out that some git clients mess with filemodes. You can tell git not to pay attention to them with:
git config --global core.filemode false git config core.filemode false
Thank gott.
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Minecraft+Powers of 10
June 15th, 2011Liz Barry sent this along; as a longtime fan of the “Remind Me” video, and a recent Minecraft player, this is a lot of fun.
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Apple Patents Way to Prevent Concert Piracy – NYTimes.com
June 3rd, 2011
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Chocolate milk + Kinect to capture 3d “smoke” effect
May 2nd, 2011
chocolate milk dispersion from Friedrich Kirschner on Vimeo.
Freidrich Kirschner (currently working out of the p.irateship) has done an amazing 3d capture of “smoke” for a scene in his movie where a rocket blasts off — using chocolate milk, a tub of water, and a Kinect, and his own Moviesandbox software! it’s pretty amazing. Support his work (open source) on Kickstarter!
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Frank’s N4SPP Hellschreiber page
April 17th, 2011
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Libyan rebels Google Earth military planning
March 25th, 2011As rebel leaders continued to plead for weapons, along with communications and night-vision equipment from abroad, they said that no foreign experts had been sent to help train their fighters. “The only foreign expert we use is Google Earth,” Colonel Bani said.
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