A collection of links, videos, photos, and other things by Marc Piche.


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Feb 25, 2009
@ 12:19 pm
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CG Head »

Amazing TED video about the tech behind Benjamin Button. (Via rands)


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Feb 24, 2009
@ 12:20 pm
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Xbox Live game Braid headed to Mac »

I was considering buying a 360 just for this game.


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Feb 24, 2009
@ 12:22 am
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PostSecret

I can’t believe I’ve never seen this site before. The premise is simple: people send in postcards with confessions written on them and they are displayed on the site.

PostSecret

I can’t believe I’ve never seen this site before. The premise is simple: people send in postcards with confessions written on them and they are displayed on the site.


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Feb 17, 2009
@ 1:30 pm
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Dubai: Long-Stay Car Park »

Dubai is getting hit hard by the recession:

Police have found more than 3,000 cars outside Dubai’s international airport in recent months.


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Feb 13, 2009
@ 9:18 am
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The Definition of Fail: Microsoft Retail Stores »

The Macalope puts it best:

… Microsoft will assuredly throw a bazillion dollars into it, but right now this doesn’t exactly give off the sweet smell of success.


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Feb 13, 2009
@ 9:13 am
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Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg »

Using Wikipedia to cite Wikipedia:

… But some prankster had added a “Wilhelm” in the middle, which got printed in several places. The change on Wikipedia was noticed and corrected, but then reverted to the incorrect Wilhelm version — with one of the press stories cited as the source.


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Feb 11, 2009
@ 8:40 pm
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Picture of a super cow.

Picture of a super cow.


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Feb 11, 2009
@ 8:36 pm
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Super cows! »

I can’t believe that it’s natural. (Via kottke and siege.)


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Feb 10, 2009
@ 9:44 am
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End of the World Part II »

Get ready for the second wave of whack jobs claiming the LHC is going to destroy earth.


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Feb 8, 2009
@ 11:44 pm
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Cognitive Computing »

IBM is building a multi-million dollar brain, and the first thing they’re going to teach it is how to play Unreal Tournament:

Meanwhile, at the University of California-Merced, Kello and his team are creating a virtual environment that could train the simulated brain to experience and learn. They are using the Unreal Tournament videogame engine to help train the system. When it’s ready, it will be used to teach the neural networks how to make decisions and learn along the way.