A sneak preview of Photoshop 5’s content-aware fill. My jaw dropped. That is some magic, magic stuff happening there. It’s the kind of thing that laypeople imagine computers should be able to do, but people who work with computers think of as pretty much impossible. And somehow they did it.
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Run-walk
In Geek Girl Runner Episode #5 I talked about changing my run-walk ratio on my long runs to 3 minutes running/1 minute walking. Now here comes Jeff Galloway saying that even shorter periods of running can be used to go faster! One of the people he trains has done a 4:38 marathon using 30 seconds running/30 seconds walking. Crazy! Maybe I’ll keep cut my ratio down even further for this weekend’s 10-miler and see what it does…
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The Godless Streets of Chippendale
The Godless Streets of Chippendale. I had no idea that our little postcode was home to double the national percentage of atheists. Is it because we have so many uni students, I wonder? At any rate, I feel very at home in my little enclave of progressive pumpkin-sex-enablers.
Edited 25/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived. 🙁
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We’re on a landing page!
A couple weeks ago a co-worker asked if I had any pictures from our trip to Uluru. I sent her the link and asked why. She said that we were doing a promotion with Flight Centre, and they wanted a vacation picture to use in it. Snookums and I said we didn’t mind, and so… here we are!
Hahahaha, for some reason it just makes me laugh and laugh. Now I need to get into one of the TV commercials…
Edited 24/03/2025: Link is archived, but the image is not. 🙁
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John Cusack… in the rain
For my sister: John Cusack… in the rain. HA! He really is always in the rain.
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Stop Motion Knitting
This beautiful advertisement for natural gas shows a home being covered with knitting as a metaphor for it warming up in the morning.
I also recommend watching the “making of” video. It looks like they started with everything covered and then slowly unraveled it all, bit by bit. Lovely!
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Pumpkin Sex
Michael is exhorting us all to help the sex life of Chippo’s pumpkin vines. Heh. Both vines that I’ve grown haven’t had a single female flower, so I’ve yet to do any pumpkin fertilisation myself. I’ll be on the lookout though.
Edited 23/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
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Pre-existing conditions
Dooce has written a post about what health care reform means for her family. In short, she, her husband, and her daughter Leta have been been denied coverage by private insurance companies for “pre-existing conditions.” They have had to buy expensive state-run high-risk cover. This bill means that they will actually be able to get OFF the public option and into the private system. Excellent. (Also note: John’s pre-existing condition is HAYFEVER. You’ve gotta be kidding me, right? If I lived in the U.S., that’d be me. WTF?!)
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Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops
Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops from Alton Brown. Yum. I’ve got some pork chops in the freezer just begging for this…
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GGG for Runners
Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me fame) has a column in Runner’s World this month and has blogged his “Three G’s for Runners”. It’s got some nice pointers for anybody starting out in running.