This is a video/performance based on the mythical the video game Space Invaders, played on human scale. On June 24, 2006, 67 people sat in the seats of Espace Nuithonie for almost 4 hours, simulating the pixels of the game. For each of the 390 frames, these human pixels moved, or not, between seats. All the images of the performance were assembled to make a 3 minute video. The result: a group of people appearing as the vessel defending the Earth firing individuals on the extraterrestrial armada consisting of various groups of people, which, in return, release human beings on the vessel.
NOTsoNOISY via Killinki
translated using Altavista’s Babel Fish
Author: Jani
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Space Invaders
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Firefox, proxy (proxies), 404 = slow as hell
This is probably the single most annoying bug in Firefox for me, as I have butterfingers when it comes to typing in URLs. Glad to see it’s been reported and hopefully it’ll be fixed in the fothcoming Firefox 2.
“Firefox is setup to use a Squid proxy server. I attempt to visit a non-existant domain that will bring up a DNS error on the proxy server. The moment between me submiting the address and the proxy server returning the error, Firefox locks up the system. […] It is not until the proxy server returns the error that I am able to continue working normaly.”
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Karvalakkihakki
“This project is inspired by drunken chats during summer music festivals. A personal light-show to wear after dark. Overall more than 6 months from start to finish. No comment on whether this was time well spent. […] My machine is industrial rather than pretty.”
www.lushprojects.com via Juha
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Folder Size for Windows Explorer
“Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer. The new column shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders. It keeps track of which folders you view, and scans them in the background so you can see complete size of all files within the folder.”
Folder Size for Windows via Juha
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Microsoft Support Center
“I thought this was hilarious. A Microsoft Tech calls a customer back and leaves a phone message attempting to address the problems the user was having with their computer.”
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EU fines Microsoft unprecedented $357.3 mln
“European Union regulators fined Microsoft […] 280.5 million euros ($357.3 million) on Wednesday for defying a 2004 antitrust ruling, and warned the company to comply or face bigger fines from next month. […]
Microsoft faces an increased further fine of up to 3 million euros a day if it continues not to comply with an order by July 31. The Commission requires Microsoft to give information to rival server software makers to make their applications run smoothly with Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system.”
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MPEG4 Modifier
“[This program modifies] a MPEG-4 ASP video (XviD, DivX) without re-encoding (change aspect ratio, edit userdata, remove packed bitstream, and change interlaced field order). It can also show information about the video such as the amount of I/P/S/B-VOPs used, whether or not QPel/GMC were used, etc. The video must be in an AVI container, and OpenDML isn’t currently supported.”