Google Chicanery

Via Reddit:

The thread says there's also a Thanos one.

Dasaterines

Last night I had a dream that I was giving a presentation to my co-workers. The presentation was for work but I was giving it at home. I had a drawing of four columns for four different categories of things I wanted to describe. One of the categories was "Dasaterines" which is an umbrella term to encompass all the different changes that can be made to a message. The number of ways a message can be changed is nearly infinite but they are all dasaterines.

When I woke up, I googled the word and found 0 results.

Ads and Online Tracking

The big topic of conversation at this year's Thanksgiving was online tracking

The long and short of it was that everyone agreed that they were being tracked but everyone differed in their level of discomfort with it.

If this is something you're interested in, here's a really interesting article about how online tracking works and how Duck Duck Go is a new search engine that doesn't do it.

COOOOOOOOOONAN-->

With the current drought of Conan material, it feels like years since I've been in the "Cone Zone". 'Til now.

Google/Youtube did a 48 minute interview tour de force with the red-headed refugee. It's a great update and a reminder of why he belongs on network television.

In Legos

Last Summer I told you about how Radiohead had created their video for the song "House of Cards" (off of "In Rainbows") in a slightly unusual way. The entire music video was created without using a single frame of film, a single tape, nor a camera, nor a light (in the traditional sense). Instead, the entire video was created with 3D imaging devices. One, for the outdoor shots, works by rotating 64 lasers in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute. These devices wrote the real-time 3D data to hard drive, the data was then manipulated in various ways and then finally rendered as a digital video for the final product. And there it was - a filmless, cameraless music video.

The music video can be viewed here.

As a, sort of, "indy", "techie" thing to do, the resulting 3D data was released free to download on the internet at code.google.com/creative/radiohead. People were free to learn more about visualizations, develop there own, etc. Basically the public was given the raw data, to do whatever they wished with it and encouraged to make and share their own videos.

Here's where it gets unusual. I just saw one of the resulting videos today:

In case you missed it, someone has, "frame by frame" (heh), actually modeled the 3D data in lego form. SPROING! WHAT IN THE WORLD?! Absolutely amazing.

Also on the topic of stop motion videos, I found this related video which I really thought was well done.

Not quite the same time sink though, I'd of thought.