Topic: MUSIK - on August 13, 2008 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
Digitizing Rare Vinyl
While the RIAA is busy changing its image to a snake eating its own tail, one man is busy digitizing out-of-print 78s. 'There's a whole world of music that you don't hear anymore, and it's on 78 RPM records,' he stated to Wired. Right now, you can find about 4,000 MP3s on his site, with no digital noise reduction implemented yet
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 13, 2008 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
The Classic Rock Magazine Is Switching to a Smaller, Rack-Friendly Size
Some packages like the curvaceous old Coke bottle become so iconic that they are recognizable at 30 paces. So it is with Rolling Stone, whose large format has stood out on magazine racks for more than three decades. It won’t for much longer, however. With the Oct. 30 issue, which will go on sale Oct. 17, Rolling Stone, published by Wenner Media, will adopt the standard size used by all but a few magazines.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 13, 2008 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
New Lara Croft squares up for fight
A 23-year-old professional gymnast from south London has been unveiled as the new face of Lara Croft.
Alison Carroll will promote the new Tomb Raider: Underworld game which is due out in November.
Alison told Newsbeat: "It's an amazing opportunity. Lara is strong, athletic, confident and independent so it's a huge responsibility to take on her role."
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2008 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
BBC documentary maker compares injections of THC and cannabidiol
blogtures.antville.orgDocumentarie 50 mins. bbc.co.uk mindhacks.com
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Topic: VIDEO - on August 13, 2008 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene
Researchers from University of Washington have developed a technique to drastically enhance video clips using high-res photos taken of the same scene.
The technique can be used for several image enhancements including; fixing exposure, bringing in lost details, enhancing colors and depth, removing camera shakes, adding image data or completely eliminating objects from a scene.
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Topic: War and Peace - on August 13, 2008 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
Military lays out $4.4 M to supersize network monitoring technology
Bigger, better, faster, more are the driving themes behind the advanced network monitoring technology BBN Technologies is building for the military.
The high-tech firm got a $.4.4 million contract today from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel, scalable attack detection algorithms; a flexible and expandable architecture for implementing and deploying the algorithms; and an execution environment for traffic inspection and algorithm execution.
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