Category Archives: Media
Articles by Michael Lewis
I just came across this book review of “Liars Poker”, a book I’d enjoyed reading (whilst doing something entirely different, studying this). It contained links to two great articles recently penned by Michael Lewis; one on the Icelandic meltdown and the other … Continue reading
Dark Side of The Moon
I have been very remiss in not posting earlier about the best concert I’ve attended for a long while, last month. Jaime and I went to Hyde Park Calling and watched Roger Waters (and in the latter set) Nick Mason … Continue reading
Video-sharing sites
Investigating the various video-sharing sites I came across jumpcut, which aims to create a video remixing culture online. I liked the song and video-combinations of ‘What are you afraid of?‘ (by West Indian Girl) and ‘Central Valley Dream‘.
Streaming Flash Video
http://blogs.adobe.com/fms/ is the blog of the product lead behind Flash Media Server, Steve Wolkoff. http://it.sys-con.com/read/173454.htm talks about open-source Flash (Actionscript & FMS) equivalents, Red5 and MTASC. HaXE is interesting.
Philips ToUCam II Pro (PCVC840K)
I want one of these CCD webcams, and I think I’ll be getting it from QVC as their price is substantially lower than anyone else selling them online!
TopGear Winter Olympics 2006
Have you ever wondered how to play ice-hockey in a car? Or ski-jump in a car? Watch the excellent TopGear Winter Olympics to find out!
Video de-interlacing
See www.100fps.com for everything you could ever possibly want to know about interlacing video. For some excellent de-interlacing tools, head over to www.guthspot.se/video/.
Screen-grabbing driver
Reading Fabio Sonatti‘s blog led me to an excellent (and free) screen-grabbing driver which is DirectShow compatible. Go visit Vladimir Hmelyoff‘s site to download it.