Check out this video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, and then go read this article at the New Yorker. All sorts nifty elevator facts and the story of what happened to the man in question. Fascinating stuff.

In-situ animation. Quite amazing.

I don’t even know where to begin. Just go and look. Oy.
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Another gorgeous Magnetosphere piece from flight404.

Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

Buncha great information here about optimizing both Photoshop and your workstation. Thanks, Mr. Nack!

This big. I bought “retouching” and it links to my retouching site. $10. I even got this nice free button! Check out The Big Word Project and buy someone something useless.

Title 17 of the US Code says that copyright protection is in effect from the time the work is created in fixed form. If somebody steals your work, you can sue them and collect actual damages, the amount of money that you’re out by the infringer not properly licensing the work. Actual damages. Hmmm. No punitive damages? Nope. For that, you have to register the work. James Duncan Davidson explains it all on his blog.

If you paste "&fmt=18" at the end of any YouTube URL (up in the address bar of your browser), it will force YouTube to load the hires version of the video (if there is one). I think it’s using the H.264 iPod-compatible version of the video.

Example

Here is a lowres:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4

And here is a hires:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4&fmt=18

Makes YouTube almost watchable.