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Wired: Gadget Lab

On Monday we took a look at computational rephotography, a technique for making a new photo exactly match the point-of-view of an old photo. Today we take a look at a gallery of photos showing rephotography in action.

The pictures have been put together by Russian whizz Sergey Larenkov and posted on his Livejournal (yes, Livejournal is still around). Larenkov’s trick is to place old wartime...

FlowingData

I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors, sanctioned by the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, I laughed. I mean seriously, $50k to the winner of a game that requires no skill whatsoever? Absurd. Boy was I wrong.

Rock-paper-scissors isn't just a silly game kids play or a way to decide who has to be the designated driver at parties. This is serious...

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Fast, furious and enthusiastic images from Sao Paulo and the 11th edition of the FILE Electronic Language International Festival, i think the report will have to wait till i'm back in Europe continue

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Molotov flashmob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7niWuVr240&

A horde of supposed “anarchists” stormed a mayor’s office in a Moscow suburb in a flash mob of environmental activism and Molotov cocktails. Tensions over the destruction of the ancient Khimki forest have been mounting for years, recently elevating.

On Monday, a horde of between 100 to 500 masked forest defenders ...

W3C News

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and b...