Someone with more time than a firm sense of how to use that time productively (our kind of guy/gal) has strung together four screens playing automated Super Mario World levels programmed to mimic the four parts of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”
Forget putting this together: I got winded just watching it.
via The Daily What.
This unusual triumph of kids over grown-ups suggests that the brain’s capacity to consider the context of visual scenes, and not just focus on parts of scenes, develops slowly, say psychologist Martin Doherty of the University of Stirling in Scotland and his colleagues. Even at age 10, children lack adults’ attunement to visual context, Doherty’s team concludes in a paper published online November 12 in Developmental Science.
After around 440 hours of work, and just in time for the 10th anniversary of the original movie release,
we are pleased to present to you our Lego version of the famous Bullet Time dodge scene from The Matrix.
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Post on Warcom blog by yours truly.
And that’s all I have to say.
a couple of years ago when i was living in shanghai i bought a revenge of the sith dvd off the street. it came with hilariously mangled subtitles that ranged from somewhat close to what the actors were saying to far, far away….
via winterson.com: episode iii, the backstroke of the west redux.
a quick pause in the caption commentary. for a while i couldn’t figure out how the captions got so mangled- i thought maybe it was done by computer, but in some cases like this one the captions make sense but have no relation to what is going on. general grevious is actually saying, “just as count dooku predicted”…
But wait, there’s more!
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Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.
