Cut-n-paste photography
I've been experimenting with taking large panorama images by taking multiple photographs and stiching them together in software. The results can be quite rewarding even with the proggy that came bundled with my Canon Digital Ixus 400. Needless to say I thought that Max Lyons's Gigapixel Image was very cool indeed. Max even created a program called PTAssembler to help him with stitching the images together. Through the associated Slashdot article I also found the hugin project, another tool for stitching images. Both programs use a library called Panorama Tools to do the actual stiching and perspective correction involved. It's interresting what you can do these days. I'm quite happy I took a panorama of our hotel view during our honeymoon, maybe I'll be able to stich those together and form a decent image to hang on the wall some day...
On my own photography
Still on the subject of photography, as I've revealed earlier I do a fair bit of photography, but the current (more or less manually updated) state of this site doesn't exactly make an image gallery a very practical option. I do plan to get some stuff up here, as soon as I've found (or built) a content management system which fits my needs. Not that anyone is interrested, right? Then again, you haven't seen my photographs, how would you (or I) know?
Digital Sun Dial?!
Yes, a Digital Sun Dial. A quote: " Like a digital clock, the digital sundial displays the current time using digits. In the true tradition of all sundials, the device is purely passive - it operates without electricity, and has no moving parts." - 'nuff said. Via Blogdex.