This is just nuts

AI improv marimba.

(h/t Gizmodo)

Gigapan? I hardly know her!

I've only seen this referenced at Sully's and tech blogs like Gizmodo, so I'll do my part to spread it around.

What you're looking at is a 1474 gigapixel image, assembled from well over 200 images shot using a specialized rig that scans and pans at intervals you can set to establish both a wide range and a lot of depth.

Here's a screen cap of the whole thing:


And here is a zoom of Chimpy, Darth, and families. Even here, Bush is making a shitty little poutyface. Man, he needs to fall headfirst into a gaping void.


Here are two more with some pretty impressive detail considering the specks they represent in the main shot.




Seriously, go get lost in that thing.

Geekery that boggles

It's a beautiful thing.

This guy has graphical representations and various ranking algorithms for any baseball number you want. And counting.

Oh, the hours I could spend here, if I didn't have shit to do.

Blogrolling

I've updated the sports section of my blogroll.

I've been reading the latest additions for quite a while, but forgot to add them.

Fire Joe Morgan - the name alone would be enough, as Joe Morgan is the biggest idiot in the universe of color-guy idiots. But the snark and statistically logical goodness that backs up the truth behind the snark is what I love. This post is the perfect introduction, if you've never read them before. And here's another one.

Flotsam Media - I've already posted about the greatest blog post in the history of blogs. But they bring the funny and the true almost every day.

Shysterball - Just good damned commentary and news.

Vegas Watch - Comentary, odds, commentary on odds, links.

That is all.

Clock, or counter?

My initial (and highly dominant) reaction, is clockwise. When sober (when I first saw this), I was able to fight it hard enough to see her going counterclockwise.

Now, with a few drinks in me, I can NOT fool myself into counterclockwise. At all.

See the whole left-brain/right-brain explanation here.

Oh, I almost forgot: nice tits.

How bad are you? Well, you suck. But you don't rank for all-time suckage. So you have that going for you. Which is nice.

More baseball geekery.

There's been an audio explosion...

...in my pants.

Gotta start saving my pennies.

More Sitemeter geekery

Of course, I skew those numbers because when I first go to the page, I'm not automatically logged in, so that counts as a visit. Those Mac numbers are mostly me.

Statistics geekery

I was playing with sitemeter during my lunch break, and checked out the maps. Way cool.

Started in North America. Hey, Canada! No idea who that is.


Zoom out to the world map, and I'm surprised to see London!


I'm bad. I'm worldwide.

And considering what a numbers/stats geek I am, I need to ration my sitemeter browsing, or I'll never get anything done. Believe me, it's not about vanity. It's my OCD attitude toward measurables. Charts and graphs? Yes, please.

Don't even get me started on baseball...