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This is a very interesting if somewhat scary project:

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It aims to document how people changed by serving in Afghanistan by taking their picture before, during and after the deployment…

In some of the photos people changed quite a lot. Of course, whether this is due to emotions live through, as the project suggests, or also to the weather and other changes is hard to tell. Nice try to capture the effects of these kind of periods during someones live none the less…

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i’m not actually sure how much of this is really ‘emergent behaviour’. I mean that it’s not clear from the movie how much of this is programmed beforehand, and how much it is really ‘thought off’ by the robots.

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It will be more expensive than the one you buy at IKEA – but then again, it has been made by humans…!

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These guys claim to have a new rendering engine that will enable games to render to virtually unlimited detail….

It seems a lot like voxels. This has been claimed before – but not to this resolution, not with these numbers onscreen at the same time. A lot of people respond with a lot of sceptisism, but if this turns out to be true.. games are gonna be a lot nicer to look at!

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This guy figured out a way to make objects in the desert – using nothing (well…. a lot of equipement!) but sun and sand.

Of course, this is ‘just’ some type of laser-printer, omitting the laser and using the sun. But I love it! This is a picture of the result:

More can be found on his site.

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Wow.. this is awesome!

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This brave person tries to work 7 days without using a mouse…

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But, as a example, using the backend of this blog is very hard to do without using a mouse… The editor I type this in does not support shortcuts. If you want to create a link, you need to select the text (using the shift-key and cursor keys, of course!) but then… you want to, huh, click the button:

That’s not going to happen without a mouse. But a lot more can be done without a mouse than most people realize. Strangely enough, this has been true for some years now. I would say that proper instruction would save a lot of people a lot of clicks…!

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I am, after I saw this…!

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A photographer made pictures of ‘hotels’ that are build in the Sinai-desert:

Bit of a annoying flash-app, but more pictures can be found here.

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With fears of a possible nuclear meltdown in Japan continuing to escalate, evidence that the nation received warnings over the stability of its power plants from an international watchdog more than two years ago has emerged via a new round of diplomatic cables accessed by WikiLeaks.

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The strange thing is: I did not hear about this on any official outlet. Wikileaks is of the table. It has been news for some weeks, but now we move on to other things… as if this is not very important and incriminating news in itself…

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