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"Restoration of distorted images is one of the most interesting and important problems of image processing - from the theoretical, as well as from the practical point of view. There are especial cases: blurring due to incorrect focus and blurring due to movement - and these very defects (which each of you knows very well, and which are very difficult to repair) were selected as the subject of this article." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"Entangle provides a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

OMG, I'm a color geek and this page is overwhelming. Brain melting down. So fascinating. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Javascript library to work with L*a*b* colors. Also includes some interactive diagrams to explore the color space. - Amit Patel

"Cube is an open-source system for visualizing time series data, built on MongoDB, Node and D3. If you send Cube timestamped events (with optional structured data), you can easily build realtime visualizations of aggregate metrics for internal dashboards." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Whoa... you've gotten the lightning! So awesome :) - Bee

Wow! - Anne Bouey

Graphics research is amazing. This project: sketch and label something you want a photo of, then the system finds photos on the web, cuts out the parts that it wants, and composes everything together. Watch the video too. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I downloaded the client, but it doesn't appear to work and has an expiration date of "1 Jan 2011" :(. - Private Sanjeev

"Cell phones have a small aperture, hence a large depth of field. In other words, most of the scene is in focus at once.  However, if you record video while moving the phone slightly, and you add the frames of the video together, you can simulate the large aperture of an SLR. This app lets you do that." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Fabrice Bellard's stunning hack lets your browser run Linux - Andy Baio

That's crazy cool. - Amit Patel

SO CUTE!! - Rachel Lea Fox

What if Gtk apps ran on HTML instead of X11? Well, you could run Gtk apps inside a browser, right? What kinds of apps? How about a text editor (gedit)? How about a graphics editor (gimp)? How about … a web browser??? - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Madness! - Seth

Must go deeper… - Amit Patel

For some reason the post isn't on the site, so I shared the feed item instead. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

Mike Bostock of Protovis and Polymaps fame has a new Javascript library. It's sort of like jQuery, but good at SVG too - Nelson Minar

Lane Wallace is a great aerospace writer, and here I think she's got it especially right. - Daniel Dulitz

A simple JSONP proxy to allow circumventing same origin policy - Nelson Minar

"In the settlement, the agency pledged to inform its officers of the public’s general right to photograph the exteriors of federal courthouses. Now, the civil liberties group has received a redacted version of the directive that was sent out last year. Significantly, it embraces federal buildings — not just courthouses — nationwide. The three-page bulletin reminds officers, agents and employees that, “absent reasonable suspicion or probable cause,” they “must allow individuals to photograph the exterior of federally owned or leased facilities from publicly accessible spaces” like streets, sidewalks, parks and plazas. Even when there seems to be reason to intercede and conduct a “field interview,” the directive says: Officers should not seize the camera or its contents, and must be cautious not to give such ‘orders’ to a photographer to erase the contents of a camera, as this constitutes a seizure or detention."" - Simon from Bookmarklet

This looks really cool. Anyone tried this app? - Simon from Bookmarklet

I tried the free version and it seems to work. There were some minor glitches but I was impressed. - Amit Patel

It's especially nice that they do it all locally. Google's translate tools are neat, but I need them most when I'm traveling, which is when my data connection is least likely to work well. - Seth

High-speed camera pointed to the side as a train speeds through the station. I love this. - Kevin Fox

Really cool idea! - Simon

So lifelike! ;) - Seth

That's just beautiful. - Kevin Fox

I love this! Maybe we can make one in Mike's son's room when he get born, then big enough.. - amelia arapoff

"CDE is a tool that automatically packages up the Code, Data, and Environment involved in running any set of Linux commands so that they can execute identically on another computer without any installation or configuration. A command can range from something as simple as a command-line utility to a sophisticated GUI application with 3D graphics. The only requirement is that the other computer have the same hardware architecture (e.g., x86) and major kernel version (e.g., 2.6.X) as yours. CDE allows you to easily run programs without the dependency hell that inevitably occurs when attempting to install software or libraries. You can use CDE to allow your colleagues to reproduce and build upon your computational experiments, to quickly deploy software to a compute cluster or the cloud (e.g., Amazon EC2), and to submit executable bug reports." - Amit Patel

Reminds me of memoize. - Seth