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This year
Pictorico - Clear Film - Premium OHP Transparency Film
by mozkart
nterested in making platinum/palladium prints with OHP Transparency Film? Learn more about how world-renowned digital photographer Dan Burkholder uses OHP Transparency Film to make contact prints. Dan Burkholder's "Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing" remains the definitive resource for photographers who want to combine the new technologies with classic printing methods. Try his new technique of using our Photo Gallery Hi-Gloss White Film as a digital negative for printing on silver gelatin paper.
MAGNETIX sur MySpace Music - Ecoute gratuite de MP3, Photos et clips vidéos
by Krome
POSITIVELY NEGATIVE
Jay Fields' Thoughts: The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers
by greut
I know the argument: demand is so high, we don't have another choice. I reject this argument on the basis that most good programmers spend the majority of their time fixing problems created by terrible programmers.
ouch! Learned was is NNPP thus
Begin FX trading
by polyxena
Forex doesn’t do negative sentiment - if you reckon one currency is going to go down against another - well - buy the other currency. And you won’t be waiting for 2-3 years for a stagnant equity market to pick up again.
NIHONTO-NO-BI: Tsuba I
by sbrothier
Sukashi Tetsu Tsuba
These tsuba are made from forged iron (tetsu) plate and have designs or patterns cut into them. Some of the more elaborate could take up to three months to complete. Sukashi work is of two basic types:
Ko-sukashi: in negative relief, where a minor design is cut into the plate (e.g. a cherry blossom); these tsuba were often produced by swordsmiths (tosho) or armour-makers (katchushi or kacchushi), however many were also produced by tsubako of different schools and signed.
Ji-sukashi: in positive relief, where a large amount of the plate is removed, and the design is formed by the plate that remains. There are two forms of ji-sukashi:
(a) yo- (you) sukashi, a positive silhouette where metal is removed to leave a solid shape; and
(b) kage-sukashi, a type of negative silhouette where only the outline of the design remains, such as with a pencil drawing.
love & fear
by blackgoldfish
"Deep down, at our core, there are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety, and guilt." - David Kessler
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2008
American Mustache Institute
by moustache
Enter the American Mustache Institute (AMI) - based in St. Louis as the city is home to the world's largest mustache - the St. Louis Arch. AMI is an advocacy organization protecting the rights of, and fighting discrimination against, mustached Americans by promoting the growth, care, and culture of the mustache.
AMI continues to battle negative stereotyping that has accompanied the mustache since those glory years of the 1970s - the peak of mustache acceptance - fighting to create a climate of acceptance, understanding, flavor saving, and upper lip warmth for all mustached Americans alike.
Split screen (filmmaking) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by sbrothier
(via)
In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye. Until the arrival of digital technology in the early 1990s, this was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto the same negative, called the composite.
Maths Whack 'Em Booster
by knann
This fun collection of booster activities have all been carefully chosen and designed as a result of the Athena research project which identified specific areas of maths development where pupils were under achieving. With thanks to Athena for all their work enabling this important resource to be developed.
The activities and resources included are as follows:
· Area & Perimeter
· Checkout Challenge
· Co-ordinate Shapes
· DigitWize
· Division Bingo
· Fractions
· Matchstick Patterns
· Matchstick Sequencing
· Measures
· Mental Gym
· Negative Numbers
· Percentages
· Shapes
· Symmetry
· Trainers Challenge
· Weather Station
· Weigh It Up
For teachers who may wish to bypass the game, each of the activities can be directly accessed from the menu bar at the bottom of the screen.
Class 46: Germany: Plagiarius Awards 2008
by pmdm
"From Germany comes the news that this year's "Plagiarius Awards" have been awarded at the consumer goods trade fair Ambiente. According to a press release issued by Aktion Plagiarius, the negative
"... [Plagiarius] award is given to those manufacturers and distributors whom the jury has found guilty of making or selling "the most flagrant" (design) imitations.""
2007
The Watershed Game
by knann
(via)
This is an interactive computer game which illustrates how human actions affect water quality within a community. Players take on the role of a city planner, and must make choices about recreational, agricultural, industrial, and residential development projects. The choices made by players will determine how much of a negative impact the project will have on the water and habitat within the community
Online Business and the Rising Canadian Dollar
by flakki
To be honest, I never thought I’d see this day. The Canadian dollar not only reaching parity, but rising above it. As a Canadian, I’m pretty proud of this, and what I don’t understand is the negative reaction some Canadians are having to our country’s success.
Google Earth Flight Simulator Mods and other News
by philippej
(via)
Anyone checked out the Google Earth config files for this amazing Easter Egg ? They contain a huge range of settings for everything from airplane configurations to variables for the physics engine. The files are scattered around the ‘res/flightsim’ directory. But edit them at your own risk. Before anyone else tries, negative gravity doesn’t work ;)
Manauton
by rike_
Manauton is a program used to digitally record sound. Manauton can operate in a manual or autonomous mode, hence the name Manauton.
When in manual mode, recording can be paused and unpaused with a key-press or remote control. This is similar to a tape recorder, but with a difference, there is no latency! As a matter of fact, Manauton works with negative latency. This negative latency cancels out the effect of the human latency associated with hearing a sound interpreting it and reacting to the sound. Negative latency is accomplished by buffering the sound in memory prior to recording to disk.
Centering with CSS
by lecyborg
To center a page properly in a browser, most people use text-align: center; to get around IEs stupidity, and left/right auto margins for all other browsers. However, there’s a better way, which works on all browsers and doesn’t require any IE workarounds. It uses negative margins.
SEO Today Article:Google AdWords and Negative Keywords
by lukeslytalker
f you are managing a Google AdWords marketing campaign, it is critical to employ negative keywords. This is particularly true if any of the keyword phrases in the ad campaign are broad- or phrase-matched.
Vidmeter
by nadrosis
& 7 others
Vidmeter gathers data from across the web to provide an accurate representation of the most popular online videos. While it is impossible to tell the exact number of views a given video has received from every website and every download, Vidmeter gathers the reported view count from a large cross-section of web-based video sites, giving a very close indicator to the relative popularity of a video. Vidmeter gathers this data like so:
First, Vidmeter's software automatically records the numbered of views and comments from the top listed videos on Addicting Clips, Atom Films, Break.com, Brightcove, Daily Motion, Google, Grouper, iFilm, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, Veoh, vSocial, Yahoo, and Youtube once per hour.
Second, Vidmeter editors "merge" similar videos on multiple websites. This allows Vidmeter to count the views of a video on all websites as a single video, giving a more accurate ranking of a video's popularity and not just a URL's popularity.
Third, Vidmeter automatically ranks videos for the day by counting the difference between that day's view total and the previous day's view total. The most viewed videos are the most popular and ranked highest. For videos that are new (that do not have a previously recorded view count), the first view count is listed under "before" as we cannot necessarily tell on which day those views occurred. On some days videos will show a negative comment number, this is because some networks allow users to delete comments and thus lower the total comment count.
Fourth, the latest view and comment counts are set as the "all time" counts for the videos and they are ranked accordingly.
Vidmeter's resulting list of video provides a great tool for industry watchers to track trends in online videos, for marketers to see what's hot, for makers and advertisers to track their video's popularity, and for eager video watchers to get their fill of the most poplar entertainment online.
