• Flix 2.5 Pro vs. Sorenson Squeeze
• Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite
• Squeeze It
• Codec Comparison – no-nonsense comparison, see also the rest of tbuehler’s Video Guide
• ExtremeTech/Vendor Codec Comparisons – video d/l for comparison
• The Curse of Digital Video – using (optical) filters for a less harsh look
• Over/Underexposing Video
• DVX-100 Gamma Settings
• Using Magic Bullet and Anamorphic in your DV project
• Nimble Nimbuses and Swift Sunsets Creating Time Lapse Video
• Media Management in Final Cut Pro 4 – wow, amazingly informative
• ‘I said TRIM, dang it!’
• Trimming With The Range Selection Tool
• Simulating a 35mm Motion Picture Clarity Signature
• Force Film, IVTC, and Deinterlacing – what is DVD2AVI trying to tell you and what can you do about it
• Film Look Deinterlacing for DV (Shooting Digital: Chapter 1)
• HighDef FAQ
• Twixtor review
• filters: Joe’s Filters, Synthetic Aperture, Algolith, the foundry Furnace, Sapphire, Re:Vision Effects (Twixtor, etc), Virtix, Magic Bullet (AE only)

• OS X and ipfw Firewall Protection
• OS X Firewall Setup
• Firewall and NAT startup script for OS X Server
• Firewalk X
• Turn off the Microsoft Office “anti-piracy” feature that causes a security vulnerability
• OS X: What Time Is It?
• StartupItems
• HOWTO: Running as an OS X StartupItem
• Using Startup Items in Mac OS X

More /. discussion on touch screen voting.

Nope, no global warming, no sirree. That’s poppycock.

Loebner Prize Context 2003: Finalists

SIMULATION 101: Simulation versus Representation

Here is the first in a series of articles where I will deal with the issue of simulation as the basic tool for understanding videogames. I will focus on the particular characteristics of simulation as an alternative to representation and narrative. These articles will be “illustrated” with small web-based simulations.

Ken Stone: Digital Audio in Decibels & Final Cut Pro’s Audio Peak Detection Tool

While Apple and Sony (for mini-DV) set the standard at -12 dB, -20 dB reference is the standard in most professional digital audio for picture, including Digital Betacam and HD. Some might say that peaking at -12 dB is still too hot and they use -20 dB as their reference.

Don’t be afraid of lower volumes. This is digital audio and lower volume audio is quite clean.

Linux’s answer to MS-PPTP – review of CIPE and vtun by Peter Gutmann (wow, his old home page *is* quite fun)

Whenever someone thinks that they can replace SSL/SSH with something much better that they designed this morning over coffee, their computer speakers should generate some sort of penis-shaped sound wave and plunge it repeatedly into their skulls until they achieve enlightenment.

Deep Sites – Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design. See: Joe Clark on The IC-Style

Many moons ago… Interesting bits:

• 1997-4/2001 ICQ messaging stats – obviously, I must have been very bored when I compiled these (i’m sure it’s in my blog archives somewhere). I have an XML file of those archives still lying around somewhere…)
• old drawing class hand study
• Frodo the Theatre Dog
• old Lynx screenshot

Went looking for some stuff after googling some of my new grad program classmates. Now *that’s* good fun.