AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II: http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/animator_vs_animation_2
Superb flash animation: noisy and with so much action it’s almost impossible to take in on the first viewing. If you haven’t already seen it, do take time to watch Animator vs. Animation first.
Via Userfriendly.org
Botox face: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/892.html
It’s almost as if they read my last post: cool – I get my very own personal comic writers !
Or maybe not, but I certainly prefer my initial conclusion.
Amazon. What a wonderfully crafted email they just sent my way (straight from the lads’ mag marketing department), entitled:
Great gifts from £5.99 for her this Christmas at Amazon.co.uk
There were the usual laughable excuses for presents, but they saved the best ’till last:
Wow. Now that’s the way to a memorable christmas morning:
“Merry Xmas darling. I think you’re fat.”
Although the alternatives in that line up aren’t too great either:
“Get in the kitchen and bake me something.”
“Your teeth are disgusting, and you’re too lazy to do anything about it yourself.”
“You eat too many pizzas, you salad-dodger. Go drink a carrot.”
“See, it’s so easy to make coffee now even you can do it, so you’ll be able to bring me one in bed each morning.”
What, no D-I-Y Botox for the ugly people ?
Matrix Transform: http://xkcd.com/c184.html
Well, it made me laugh this morning but I think it merely confirms that even with so many camera posts lately I haven’t stopped being an all-round geek…
Not new, but (finally) updated versions of the previous four themes for the new location of the web themes in Aperture 1.5 (and 1.5.1).
This version also has a faster installer that simply assumes the program lives in /Applications, and so the whole thing is over in less time than the .dmg file takes to open 
Really, this obsession with MTF charts is undoubtedly unhealthy for the wallet but it can also be so all-consuming it confuses solving the most obvious of problems. After getting annoyed with the auto-focus on the 350D and going back to the joys of a ‘proper’ manual lens (Zuiko 135mm with EOS<>OM adaptor) I had then become frustrated with the viewfinder: too small, too dark, too tunnel-like when compared to my aged OM-10 and plainly the cause of all my manual focus woes (being just that little bit wrong when viewed at 100%).
Or not. How about that tiny, tiny diopter wheel next to the viewfinder. Hmm, how about I actually try to find the centre zero setting ?
Oh.
Ohhhhh.
Right.
Now at least I know that I can put off a visit to the opticians for another year, and I really don’t have to go lusting after full frame D-SLR’s !
It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but this time I only seemed to need one change to the binary:
0xb8e8: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88
and the Info.plist minimum memory requirement had to be adjusted down for me as I only have 768MB on the 12″ PB. I seem to recall that the other entries may have been for unsupported graphics cards, but these appear to have been relaxed somewhat: all I can say for sure is that my 1GHz 12″ PowerBook is happy with just the single binary edit (and I’d not need the Info.plist hack if I just bought a new memory module…)
Update: It does appear from comments that the video card detection does need more edits, so if you don’t have a 12″ 1GHz PowerBook you might want to try:
0x0b8e8: 40 9e 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0x0b984: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88 0x17810: 40 9E 00 e0 -> 48 00 00 D8
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