Archive for May, 2007

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Digital Audio Compression

This great article from the NYTimes.com discusses the pros/cons of various forms of bitrate encoding.  As digital storage gets cheaper by the day, music companies are starting to increase the bitrate sampling of songs they make available online (currently for a premium).  Some are even taking Super Audio CD tracks and sampling them at ridiculous [...]

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Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Surface Computing

Popular Mechanics has a terrific video demonstration of Microsoft’s recently announced surface computing hardware.  I’ve been a multitouch fan for a while (have a ThinkPad X61T with screen input for example, and of course Apple’s upcoming iPhone features multitouch prominently), and this demo shows where multitouch is going.  You’ll be able to find these multitouch [...]

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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

How Projects are Conceived…and Executed….

Funny little visual about how projects evolve from conception to reality, from various points of view (the customer, the analyst, the business consultant, etc.).

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Monday, May 7th, 2007

Dave Brubeck like you’ve never heard…

A new take on Take 5.  Thanks to Hespos for pointing this out.

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