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Mar 13, 2007

Mother-unloaded

Comedy Central has been hyping it's Motherload online video clips for a while now. In an effort to be 'tech savvy' they've been putting up clips of The Colbert Report and other popular shows, and even allowing people to embed Motherload clips on their website.

Well, I did just that, and within a week or two, Comedy Central pulled the clip. They're well within their rights to do so, and I'm not gonna give them grief, but at the same time, they shouldn't expect too many people to use the 'embed' feature if the video is going to disappear.

I guess that the Viacom mothership can just keep issuing blanket DCMA notices to YouTube, and gather up so many innocent dolphins in their nets.

I guess this is what you get when you have marketing wonks who think that because they read this really neat article about "Web 2.0" then they're suddenly 'savvy'.

This isn't a knock at Colbert. I'm still waiting for the Colbert/Stewart (or Stewart/Colbert if you prefer) ticket to be announced in 2008.

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Nvidia Quadro Drool Fest


At the latest GDC conference, Nvidia announced the latest additions to it's professional line of graphics cards, the Quardo series. If Nvidia's claims are anywhere close to true, the cards have roughly the same processing power as 128 CPUs running at 1.35GHz. They also use the GP-GPU technology, which allows developers to tap into this power for general purpose computing uses.

These cards aren't geared towards the general consumer though, with the Quadro FX 4600 retailing for $1995, the Quadro FX 5600 at $2999, and undetermined for the highest-end Quadro Plex VCS model IV.

And they may even run the Vista Aero interface.

You can read more about them, including the Nvidia press release at this Gizmodo link.

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Mar 12, 2007

Babylon 5: Lost Tales production

Being a long time fan of the show Babylon 5, it's great to know that they're making a new series. CGSociety is doing a series of in depth articles about the production process, so being a VFX guy and a fan just makes this article all the more interesting.

From the ways in which television and film production are covered by the main stream media, one would have to assume that the Big Bang created movies out of thin air and everyone rested on the seventh day.

No problems ever seem to happen, everyone looks happy, and there’s carefree laughter in the background as reporters are told, “We were all one big, happy family” even though we know that’s not true of the majority of productions.

What holds a production together through good times and bad, is one common desire; everyone involved loves what they do, and they want to see it through, knowing they have a great deal to gain if they can create a vision that takes the audience’s breath away.

But we rarely have the opportunity to see that process up close...

You can read more from Part One here.

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