I was having lots of problems with HTML email layouts. After doing some research, I came up with a method to get almost pixel-perfect positioning and sizing. It's not that hard.

Once again, another morph. This time from the popular Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek to the guy he studies, French philosopher Jacques Lacan. This one is almost right, but moving the hand from the cheek to the chin was impossible for me.

I didn't mention a couple posts back about the command to combine the output of JavaMorph into a movie:

ffmpeg -f image2 -i %03d.jpg out.mov

You run that command inside the output directory.

Here's my latest morph, showing Thom Yorke of Radiohead morphing into David Byrne of Talking Heads. It would have been even better if it was Radiohead from around Kid A morphing into Talking Heads circa Remain in Light.

Here's another morph, similar to the last one. I'm learning how to set the points. There are a lot of errors, still, but a few things have improved, like the fact that the background doesn't just fade away. The background almost morphs correctly. The shirt doesn't work at all. This is definitely violating someone's copyright. Going forward, I'll use only Wikimedia Commons images.

Here's a video (viewable on Firefox) in Ogg Theora video format. It was created with JavaMorph, a FOSS morphing program, and PiTiVi, a simple video editor. The morpher made the transition, and Pitivi was used to add the stills at either end of the video.

Living turkey morphs into a cooked turkey dinner.

Here's some HTML and CSS to make an image with a transparent caption that displays over the image.

<style type="text/css">
  .caption-background {
      width: 500px;

I got into this flash game called Grow Island. It's a puzzle game with great artwork. After the jump, I list the solution. Don't click it if you want to play the game.

http://www.5min.com/Video/Film-Editing-Basics-and-Theory-145351806
http://www.slatev.com/video/how-judge-best-editing-oscar/
http://www.5min.com/Video/Edit-in-Camera-Exercise-201026266

2010 is upon us, and unlike the Arthur C. Clarke sequel to 2001, wherein the world is exploring space, in the real 2010, the world is trying to find a goddamn job and avoid a huge, double-dip recession and rapid price deflation.

This was written as a response to critique of Android's bad user interfaces. The original poster blamed the bad UI on A's Linux heritage.

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This is a cool video. If only every industrial guy or gothic girl would dance at the mall to some silent, inner song.

I went to the Roaring Aughts event featuring photographer Slobodan Dimitrov, and, in addition to enjoying the photo show, got to hear a lot of discussion about cameras that was way over my head. It was heavy gearhead talk.

Salt of the Earth

Labor History

"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." - David St. Hubbins

Jeff Wall, Mimic, 1982

Miley Cyrus, Joke, 2009

Margaret Cho's comment on the second photo.

This is a script to resize youtube video embed codes. It also works with other site. The youtube video is scaled proportionately. It should work with other video sites like Revver, Vimeo, LiveLeak, and even non-video embed codes.