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| Colbert Trash Talks the New Planets | | | submitter: Thom | Saturday, August 19th 2006 | | |
Not only did Stephen Colbert call that Pluto was and would remain a planet, but he is on a quest to make sure America's solar system stays as-is; no gate-crashing planets allowed!
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| Online Raster-to-Vector Conversion System | | | submitter: Thom | Saturday, August 19th 2006 | |
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This is for all my fellow tech geeks out there. A recent project of mine required the use of a large logo, around 1,000 pixels wide. However, the only logo I had available was a jpeg measuring a measly 50 pixels wide. Enlarging that up would lose the image completely, the obvious answer was to try and convert this jpeg to a Scalable Vector Graphic. After a bit of research I came across an insanely useful, and completely free (GNU GPL) program called AutoTrace. AutoTrace runs on the command line, but various GUIs are available, my favorite of which is the Online Raster-to-Vector Conversion System. It will take a bit of getting used to, and works best in conjunction with GIMP. I hope others out there find this program as useful as I have!
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| Professional Can Tossers | | | submitter: Thom | Wednesday, August 16th 2006 | | Hey Fred, Erwann, Nas & co, what did you guys accomplish with your lives?
"We learned how to throw cans!"
Watch these guys fail to recycle, sometimes from incredible distances! | | | | | |
| Goggles - the google maps flight sim | | | submitter: Thom | Tuesday, August 15th 2006 | | |
Goggles lets you fly a small plane across the world using images loaded in from Google Maps. In and of itself, it loses the cool factor after a bit; but the concept definitely has potential! Imagine a Flight Simulator with Google Earth, which can now render 3d buildings
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| Great Pics of Lightning | | | submitter: Thom | Tuesday, August 15th 2006 | |
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A small collection of very cool lightning photos. There are a few other good galleries on this site as well, such as marine life
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