Crossposted from 12ozProphet

Thought these were nice and wanted to quickly post. Read an inverview with the Ebon @ yatzer.

• HDRI Tips and Tricks FAQ by Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Professor Kirt Witte
• After Effects Scripts : BG Renderer
  Allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while you can continue working in AE. Runs as an embedable panel that is saved as part of your workspace.
• Tips on Using the LaCie Hard Drive
• Invite Everybody: Facebook Greasemonkey script
  By Eyebeam senior fellow Michael Mandiberg
• your.flowingdata
  Capturing your life in data. One tweet at a time.

• Identify : Firefox entension
  Combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i. Go to any profile page like twitter.com/glennjones and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i. It makes extensive use of Google’s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on and then uses YQL API to collect the information.
• Tweet-a-Watt! A safe and simple wireless power monitor
• quietube : video without the distractions
  watch video only without anything else
• THRU YOU
  Kutiman mixes YouTube
• O3D API : Google experimental browser plugin for the display of rich 3D graphics in Web content.
  open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.

• Monkey Extract: Tools for RED post production
  Speed up RED post. Start using an Efficient Red workflow from Avid, Final Cut to Color, Smoke, etc. - all editing and grading platforms. Rename reels. Browse footage using thumbnails. Copy and Render footage by browsing, or from an EDL or XML. Render across multiple machines.
• Scientists warn of rapid-fire media dangers
  Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
• Sim-OnDemand: OpenSim based Personal Virtual World Server deployed on Amazon Web Services Elastic Computing Cloud EC2 infrastructure
  OpenSimulator 3D application server – popularly known as OpenSim – is a fast evolving versatile opensource software capable of mimicking(and more!) Linden Lab(TM)’s SecondLife(TM) virtual worlds. Amazon EC2 is Infrastructure as a Service by Amazon - offering unlimited bandwidth, processing, storage, etc. - on a pay-only-for-what-you-use post-pay billing model. Matching of the Bandwidth and Processing intensive nature of OpenSim with the infrastructural abundance of Amazon EC2 makes Sim-OnDemand a compelling combination.
• Rhizome Interview with JODI By Ceci Moss
• FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
  all those innovative features that FriendFeed launches are routinely copied by Facebook and others, minimizing their positive impact

Derek Lerner, 30-452, 1998 Intaglio on found parking stub 13.335 x 12.065 cm

The Shooting Gallery Presents: DRAW Show

APRIL 11th – MAY 7th 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pm
Shooting Gallery
839 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.931.8035

www.shootinggallerysf.com

DRAW is a must-see art exhibition featuring original drawings by over 400 artists in the skateboard, music, urban, tattoo, literature, design, illustration, animation, psychedelic and new contemporary art worlds. The show is a tribute to the often underrated but fundamental building block of visual and graphic art: the drawing.

DRAW is the largest contemporary drawing exhibition to emerge out of New York City. Most recently, the exhibit drew over 2000 people to its London debut at StolenSpace, East London’s Leading Contemporary Urban Art Gallery. The exhibit debuted in October of 2006 at NYC’s Fuse Gallery to phenomenal response from audience and press alike. It had an equally impressive showing during the SXSW 2007 Music and Interactive-Film Festival in Austin, Texas. DRAW is currently on a six-country world tour that includes future showings in Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Berlin.

DRAW is curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey with guest curators Justin Giarla, Rich Jacobs, Jamie O’Shea, Tim Barber, Damian Weinkratz, Les Barany, Brendan Fowler, Mike Aho, Sto, Lisa Lebofsky and D* Face.

Official press release, more info, and preview of the artwork:

http://fusegallerynyc.com/DrawTour/sfdraw/sfrelease.html

Artists whose original works are in the show include:

Media coverage of DRAW:
Juxtapose
Laughing Squid
Fecal Face
Hunt & Gather
flavorpill
Happenstand
Art Nouveau Magazine
the rathaus

• Arduino: open-source electronics prototyping platform
  Based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
• Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
  Create a map of ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to details
• BBDO Italy: MS Dos inspired site
• CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
  03-31-09 Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system. For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
• TAG au Grand Palais
  Historical exhibition at Paris’ Grand Palais featuring 150 of the most influential graffiti artists in the world.

• FILE MAGAZINE: focusing on graphic design, art and visual communication
  A magazine to watch & read. With its accompanying DVD, featuring over two hours of short films, music videos and interviews, and a commissioned limited print for each issue - FILE is a survey of the current visual culture. The 56 page magazine (39 x 30 cm) is printed on improved newspaper and stabled into a 300 gsm uncoated cover.
• Designer Hangs by a Thread - New York Post
  Ecko's Hip-Hop clothing empire in peril on debt.
• PSST!3: A collaborative film series
  A collaborative film project of 17 films made by 51 teams of Designers, Directors, Animators and Composers. The mission of PSST is to produce original short films through the collaboration of Designers, Directors, and Animators. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams: the beginning, middle & end. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making. PSST! is curated and organized by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work.
• Mozilla & the Khronos Group to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web
  Mozilla and the Khronos Group announced that Mozilla will be leading an initiative to bring accelerated 3D to the Web. Mozilla will work with the Khronos Group to extend the exploration process of what an initial take of 3D on the Web should look like to a wider audience.
• Skimmer By Fallon
  An Adobe AIR desktop app to streamline the experience of participating in social networking platforms.
• Activata: HTML export extension for Adobe Fireworks CS3
  Allows you to design a web-page in Fireworks and generate usable production ready CSS and HTML
• How To Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook
  

Crossposted from 12ozProphet

Looks as if some 733t /b/tards are in it FTW! moot, 4chan founder, currently ranked #1 in TIME’s World’s Most Influential People of 2009.

via: Jimmy Ruska’s Blog
The methods, scripts and programs posted to upvote moot in most threads often didn’t include the ‘key’ query string variable which is some kind of md5 dependent on the score. It looks like voting without the key variable doesn’t work anymore even though it had before. They probably wiped out all the votes that didn’t have a key or that had an incorrect key. In the mean time people are randomly speculating they wiped votes that were exactly 100 or 1. Changing the number to something random without updating the authentication key just causes the query to fail. There’s also speculation you will be blocked for voting faster than every x seconds. It looks like it logs the votes and runs some kind of cron job every minute adding people who have voted too much to the blocked list. Within that span, you can vote as many times as you want. It also seems to have some kind of requirement, eg if the log has over 5000 votes flush it and check for repeats to block.