"Seam carving" allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces).
This is so cool. With more publishing moving to the web, this seems like a great alternative to static images. It would allow you tool preserve the content of an image along with the integrity of a layout. I imagine it will be quite a while before we see a viable implementation of this technology.
On the other hand I can see simple uses of this concept that seem easy to implement. For example, if you had a portrait, and you wanted the image to be dynamically resized, but not scaled, you could set the pixel coordinate of the center of the face, and the browser would just center the face in the frame.
That coordinate information could be saved in an external file, so you would have portrait.jpg, and portrait.jgw, where .jgw is just a text file that contains the added info.
Apparently there is a big kerfuffle over this advertisement for server hardware. I think its quite comical, but what do I know?
iTunes - "Hot Like your Mom" on Flickr - Hilarious. Who's the guy that gets to come up with this shit?
Jens Meiert has posted a great index of all the HTML elements and their support across the various doctypes.
While attempting to watch one of ABC's high-quality, full-screen videos available on their website, I was presented with this dialog. Sure, I would have rather not installed another plugin, but they got it right. First, they explained what was going on in simple terms. Second, they referred to us as "Mac People".
I wonder if the dialog for the Windows plugin is cold, ugly, and boring?
This calendar is ingenious. I don't know if its really that practical. But still... ingenious.
