Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-8-2008

[andrewducker]

• Kim Komando's Video of the Day » Water Painting
  This fountain can actually make pictures and words with falling water. It's been described as working like an inkjet printer. Hundreds of nozzles create precise streams of water. Timed just right, images are created.
  (tags: water video art)
• Threading in C#
  A free E-book. Will probably come in handy at some point.
  (tags: threads threading software c# tutorial)
• Javascript Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Character Generator
  I'll be needing this next week, I suspect, once our 3.5 campaign ends
  (tags: javascript dnd tools gaming)
• TinEye
  Very impressive image search engine. Finds the image you give it, plus variants and cropped versions.
  (tags: image search internet)
• Applying the eBay Model to Music Licensing
  Fascinating concept. I wonder if it will catch on. It's not, by the way, even slightly the eBay model, unless they're thinking of eBay Express.
  (tags: music business licensing)
• UK death rates are plummeting
  Figures published yesterday show deaths from cancer fell by 18.2 per cent in the decade to 2007 and are on course to hit the target reduction set by the Government four years ago of a 20 per cent fall by 2009-11.
  
  Deaths from heart disease and stroke are down 44 per cent over the same period and have already exceeded the 40 per cent target set for 2009-11.
  (tags: health uk nhs)
• NPR Transcript on the credit crisis
  Which takes you through it, top to bottom and back again, showing how everyone in the chain was, frankly, an idiot, who thought they could get away with it. If you've ever wondered how the credit crunch happened, this will explain it.
  (tags: mortgages finance economics npr)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Another Frightening Show about the Economy is even more impressive (and scarier--the mortgage mess is only a medium-sized part of what went wrong), but there doesn't seem to be a transcript yet.

[darkoshi]

There's a problem with the water-painting link.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

TinEye should be really cool once it's done some more indexing, but I'm disappointed that it's so far unable to find any of my images that I know have been reproduced on other web sites...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Thank-you for that last link. I now understand how and why the situation built up in more detail than the vague "greed and stupidity" understanding I had before.